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11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:51 pm
by Neville Briggs
A bit of found poetry for the 11/11. Apologies to all, I could only do it in free verse as it is found poetry.
Maintain the Rage.
God save the Queen !
Men and women of Australia.
Well may we say,
God save the Queen
because , nothing
will save,
the Governor General.
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:53 pm
by Heather
I can still hear his pompous voice! And I was only a wee girlie.....
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:24 pm
by Maureen K Clifford
What was pompous about it????
The man had been dealt a mortal blow - did we expect him to fall on his sword as well?
It was his rude eviction that pretty well put me off politics as I figured what is the use of voting for them when someone else can boot them off - all seemed a bit farcical to me and I liked Gough
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:31 pm
by manfredvijars
... yep, those 'free' versers can call anything poetry (and usually do) ...
Sorry Nev, if there's no rhyme - it's a crime ...
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:33 pm
by Heather
Oh, Maureen, his voice was pompous and his stance - always. I was a wee young thing so the politics at the time was lost on me - but I remember the voice clearly.
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:42 pm
by Maureen K Clifford
Was not
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:48 pm
by Heather
Me thinks you protesteth too much....
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:39 pm
by Heather
Malcolm Fraser also spoke pompously too if it makes you feel any better Maureen. No reflection on the politics. Oh, plus pompous is SUCH a good word and I never get to use it!
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:05 pm
by Terry
Sorry Folks,
But I have to agree with Heather on this one, on both accounts.
Mind you I once had my breakfast served to me by Malcolm Fraser while fly fishing at the world Championships in Tasmania in 1988.
I wonder if Gough was a flyfisher as well; doubt it?
Terry
Re: 11/11 Found Poetry.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:30 pm
by Neville Briggs
Forget about the politics, look at the sheer poetry. Gough was a master of the dramatic pause.
Hardly surprising, he was a barrister and married to a judge's daughter.
Malcolm Fraser couldn't do anything like it. The best he managed was " Life wasn't meant to be easy "...not even original. Well, he was a sheep farmer.
Bring before us evil Neville.
This sordid wretched devil
is charged with serious crime;
" Not using proper rhyme " !!
Silence in court !!
How do you plead.
Guilty, your worshipfulness.
Yes, crime is what you've wrought.
Now sentence is decreed,
we'll spare you from the noose,
but it's 20 years of Dr. Seuss.
