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HE WAS A POET

He was a poet

But he wore an unfashionable raincoat

He was a mystic but the grey weather blocked his view,

He was English through and through

He believed in the old traditions

He longed for them to return

He dreamed of pie and mash shops

Reappearing on the high street.

 

He was a poet

He wrote loads of words

He was a philosopher

He longed to be heard,

He sat in Lyons Tea Houses

Over a cup of tea and a buttered scone

He would express his views

To anyone who would listen.

 

He is a poet

Some think he’s funny in the head

He walks down the high street with his carrier bags,

He talks to himself

Sometimes he finds communication hard

But he believes that one day

The world will hear his words.

 

- Frank Bangay

August 06


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