Thursday 1 October 2009

After the Execution....

Tim the Gardener was inspired to write a poem:

On Monday 28.9.09
I met a moping Royalist
patrolling Hay this morning
I greeted him quite royally
but he pretended scorning,
ignoring me and strolling on
was all he could contrive
no hello, jest, jibe or blow,
he barely seemed alive
*
"He'll do his rounds," I thought, "and then
go home for cup of tea
amid the fitted kitchen
armchairs, sofa and TV
and dwell upon the good old days
while nursing more resent
but fail to see his own hand in
former dismal non-event."
*
God send us leaping Morris men
and Rodgers fit to dodge
not grown up men who snub like girls
and can't discuss the grudge
God send us laughing holy men
and a Tiny Tim who's tall
and we will cut a caper in
this waxworks 'ere we fall.
*
Republicans cannot be snobs
whatever else we be
for in our day all nobs are topped
or hung upon a tree
We're common men and Levellers
That structures our ambition
No-one and nothing known can be
beneath our recognition.
*
Meanwhile, in the press, there's a good piece in the B&R this week (page 5, with Boz being menaced by two Cavaliers), and there's a piece on the Guardian website at http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alisonflood

1 comment:

Marches.TV said...

There is a video report of the execution on Marches.TV Gunpowder, Treason & Pints