tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935362240550951622024-03-12T22:59:15.301-07:00BlogpoetBlogpoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086657214511879381noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493536224055095162.post-49275490185715614462022-11-15T07:46:00.012-08:002022-11-16T06:42:39.797-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">I wrote this poem to remind me that I walked away from someone I could have given a helping hand.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">London is busy and unforgiving, there are many youngsters like the boy in the poem and since then I have supported a charity for such despairing youngsters.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">However, I am still ashamed that, at that moment, I just walked by.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Boy in the Underground</span></span></h1>
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</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Just me plus
countless other 'achievers'<br />Decamping
from a tube train<br />A
cruddy, mobile tin can<br />No
human contact during the journey<br />Only
the desire to keep some personal space<br />And
not to look any fellow passenger<br />Directly
in the face.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Then
came the rush for the exit<br />Down
narrow walkways<br />No
place for the lame<br />Making
some money was the only game<br />Business
meetings and appointments to keep<br />So
that each individual could reap<br />Some
reward from this anonymous day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br />
But in the way<br />Huddled
in a corner, not begging<br />Just
squatting with hands shielding his face<br />Was
a desolate member of the human race<br />A
boy, probably unloved and rootless<br />Collateral
damage from a broken home<br />No
one cared as he bared his soul.<br /><o:p style="color: #2b00fe;"> <br /></o:p>I thought about stopping, giving a kind word<br />Plus
a 'tenner' for food...but I didn't<br />I
too had become a drone<br />Just
like all the other travelling clones<br />Cities
are cruel and I was a selfish fool<br />Because
that day I overruled... <br />My
humanity. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Copyright © Peter Wheeler 2016.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>All rights reserved.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFquAiM2prqlZLg2sRFct7CVkGyhTQx-fGBeuFrhnFFQXq7b-NagpkwWXsZCPszVMvHjnWJvKKXPLHQ-2xhLGa1XQCF-sWCSDK9njcKZfDJW4h3O2WwvwAdkQyPcbBcsOfXKChQ-KxZs0gp5XTVT2iVNhqNogz8JNvDaYvjBApurRX7MXVWh8POvpMHQ/s640/passengers-ga2f9037d5_640.jpgunderground.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="640" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFquAiM2prqlZLg2sRFct7CVkGyhTQx-fGBeuFrhnFFQXq7b-NagpkwWXsZCPszVMvHjnWJvKKXPLHQ-2xhLGa1XQCF-sWCSDK9njcKZfDJW4h3O2WwvwAdkQyPcbBcsOfXKChQ-KxZs0gp5XTVT2iVNhqNogz8JNvDaYvjBApurRX7MXVWh8POvpMHQ/s320/passengers-ga2f9037d5_640.jpgunderground.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><o:p> <br /></o:p><o:p> <span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;">This poem is from my new collection entitled</span><br style="color: black; text-align: center;" /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"> A message to Father Time</span><br style="color: black; text-align: center;" /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><br style="color: black; text-align: center;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3GKGby2RO7MBS6ygH_gbV7U_sEbUhqVQDeclDuOgKJDbGF2daP99Rn6x4ZiDQvkLAZIWuqQnU0EhQ7YDjOhCeDmNqGruZ7G5YaH-QQGcxXtWjXZ9q7u_NlCoVa02jpB3Z20J3_NzuKGb/s1600/41zGD4WLhgL._UY250_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3GKGby2RO7MBS6ygH_gbV7U_sEbUhqVQDeclDuOgKJDbGF2daP99Rn6x4ZiDQvkLAZIWuqQnU0EhQ7YDjOhCeDmNqGruZ7G5YaH-QQGcxXtWjXZ9q7u_NlCoVa02jpB3Z20J3_NzuKGb/s1600/41zGD4WLhgL._UY250_.jpg" /></a></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;">If you would like to get more information on how to download a copy to your kindle/laptop/tablet or own the paperback, click <a href="http://amazon.com/author/peterwheeler">here.</a></span><br /></o:p><o:p> <br /></o:p><o:p> <br /></o:p><o:p> <br style="color: black; text-align: center;" /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"> </span></o:p></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><o:p style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black; text-align: center;"></span><br style="color: black; text-align: center;" /></o:p><o:p style="color: #2b00fe;"> <br /></o:p><o:p style="color: #2b00fe;"> </o:p><span style="color: #2b00fe; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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Blogpoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086657214511879381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493536224055095162.post-83677592081106456782022-11-15T06:12:00.006-08:002022-11-15T07:17:59.868-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">For me nostalgia kicked in around my mid thirties, it mainly centred around those last care free days before work and a career slowly and imperceptibly took over my life. This poem reflects some treasured moments spent with good friends while we were all still living at home with our parents. Slowly but surely and one by one we moved on, a close friend moved to the USA, I moved to London and thus the chain was broken. I didn't realise until later what great moments they were. So I am very thankful that the human brain has a memory function. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"> <a name="_Toc427600513"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Cider Pub in Brighton</span></a></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No
beer pumps in this pub<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just
plastic barrels on the bar<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Serving
'scrumpy'<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Strong
enough to fuel a car,<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
its main purpose<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was
to exterminate brain cells<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No
matter how many billions<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
possessed<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
was only a matter of time<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before
this potent, cloudy slime<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Would
conquer all before it<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
leave us topers<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dumb
but sublime.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
We stopped going<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
our pay went up<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drank
pasteurised gunk<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From
aluminium tubs<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
other chemical muck<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
theme pubs<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trying
to pull ‘birds’<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
there was always the longing<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
go back<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have
a real drink<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Get
brainless<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put
sixpence in the jukebox<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sing
along to ‘Jumping Jack Flash’<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
those days are gone<br /></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
are my mates<br /></span>And so is the pub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Copyright © Peter Wheeler 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">All rights reserved.</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; 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margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h1><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></span></h1></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h1><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> This poem is from my new collection entitled</span><br style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;" /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> A message to Father Time</span><br style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;" /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><br style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3GKGby2RO7MBS6ygH_gbV7U_sEbUhqVQDeclDuOgKJDbGF2daP99Rn6x4ZiDQvkLAZIWuqQnU0EhQ7YDjOhCeDmNqGruZ7G5YaH-QQGcxXtWjXZ9q7u_NlCoVa02jpB3Z20J3_NzuKGb/s1600/41zGD4WLhgL._UY250_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3GKGby2RO7MBS6ygH_gbV7U_sEbUhqVQDeclDuOgKJDbGF2daP99Rn6x4ZiDQvkLAZIWuqQnU0EhQ7YDjOhCeDmNqGruZ7G5YaH-QQGcxXtWjXZ9q7u_NlCoVa02jpB3Z20J3_NzuKGb/s1600/41zGD4WLhgL._UY250_.jpg" /></a></div><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">If you would like to get more information on how to download a copy to your kindle/laptop/tablet or own the paperback, click <a href="http://amazon.com/author/peterwheeler">here.</a></span></div></h1></blockquote><h1><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span></h1>
Blogpoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086657214511879381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493536224055095162.post-64815888783647478922019-06-26T08:06:00.000-07:002019-06-26T08:07:29.172-07:00Glastonbury<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Glastonbury has had a remarkable transformation from its roots as a counter-culture rock festival.</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nowadays it is an essential part of the summer social scene and attracts huge media coverage. Celebs fly in to spend the week in a luxury yurt, rock royalty are booked to perform, but can it still manage to retain the original atmosphere of youthful (and not so youthful) rebellion.</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This poem takes a wry look at the modern Glastonbury.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>
The last bastion of the hippy dream<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now
part of the upmarket social scene<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Justin
and Josephine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On
leave from their bank<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pretend
to be <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Part
of the 'family'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But
only for a few days<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No
drug-fuelled haze for them<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only
the best wine is good enough<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For
the 'creme de la creme'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
And middle-aged rock bands relive their past<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But
their songs of rebellion sound daft<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now
they're part of the wealthy elite<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their
anarchist posing sounds so effete<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I am able I like to go back to my childhood haunts, usually beginning at the bridge mentioned, and when I do they trigger-off memories of what would now be called 'bonding' between dad and me.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He really enjoyed taking me out on his bike for a long ride around the countryside, there wasn't so much traffic then and anyway the roads were rural backwaters so the journeys were peaceful. I think, for him, it was an opportunity to talk to his kid as I was a captive audience and now I am older I realise that he wanted to school me into being the kind and caring person he was.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I grew up I also discovered that not everyone had such loving parents as I fortunately had, so my gratitude towards him grew and grew with age. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The disappointment when it re-opened was crushing. The interior resembled the flight deck of the <i>Starship Enterprise</i> and there was only one service counter. The staff that previously had been tellers were redeployed to explain to those customers without a degree in Computer Science, how to enjoy the amazing new experience of doing their own transactions.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I went in on a Saturday morning when the system had crashed and the only option for customers was to besiege the poor teller manning the 'International Only' counter, who was pretty pissed off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not a teller to be seen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So it's pointless trying to be cool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Will draw heaps of unwanted ridicule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">OK so HQ want less staff...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More money for the bonus pool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Blogpoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086657214511879381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493536224055095162.post-27814617888908857772018-07-19T08:27:00.002-07:002022-11-16T07:34:17.460-08:00Hot Hatch<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;"> Women tend to give their cars names, as if they were pets, but men, when they get the car of their dreams treat it more like a mistress. I wrote this poem about a Vauxhall SRi, which at the time was a hot, hot motor. It was my favourite ever company car and the poem recalls the day it was delivered to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had just moved to London and when this job came up it seemed an ideal way to get to know the city (and of course its watering holes), the post came with a company car and generous expenses so I took it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My territory was mainly all the SW postal districts of London, from the Kings Road in Chelsea down to Wimbledon and some plush suburbs like Surbiton and Esher.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In those days the pubs were restricted on trading hours so they would open around 11am and close at 3pm, before opening again around 6pm in the evening.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This left myself and my three colleagues in London with nothing to do in the interim (we had to do evening calls as well).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, all laws have loopholes including the then UK Licencing ones, so hotel bars and private clubs were allowed to trade all day, which led us to having afternoon meetings at the 'Pavilion Tennis Club' in Neasden, a private drinking club owned by 'diamond geezer' Les.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was impossible to play tennis there, but this was irrelevant, the bar was always open and had an eclectic mix of customers, mainly male and mainly 'dodgy'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I took some friends there one evening and the experience led me to write 'Pavilion Tennis Club', a poem currently on my blog, which gives more detail about this amazing club.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The best part of my new job however, was covering the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had to attend all day every day throughout the fortnight and do two circuits of every bar on their premises and phone through all their drinks orders, tough, but someone had to do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It came with an 'Access all Areas' pass and a badge allowing my car to enter via the main gates (priceless!). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was amazed to discover that the Centre Court was hollow underneath and used as a store, mainly for our beer, so we built a pub bar down there out of beer crates, complete with a dart board and draught beer on a pump, so while you might have been watching a 'duel in the sun' between two great tennis players, I could have been underneath playing darts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The experience led me to write 'Wimbledon or SW19' a poem contrasting the gentility of the tennis with the gladiatorial approach of the now defunct Wimbledon FC Football Club, which is in my new collection of poems entitled:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Poor
old Neasden, butt of silly jokes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spliced
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Frequented
by people just slightly below<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
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Queen's Club is for the privileged few<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wanted
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Enjoying
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Miming
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No,
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This poor male artist was wearing a thong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Think
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He
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Les, the owner and 'mine host' collected the dosh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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