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Friday, 19 June 2020

The Brown Has Won.


The Brown Has Won.

By Phillip Miller

The brown had won, and the Frog sat crying
And the Fish gulped hard as Billy lay dying

Harry the hat held on to old Rose
And Tommy the Knock said, ‘that’s how it goes’

‘It’s sad’, said the frog, ‘the kid was my light
We drank every day from morning to night

It was a choice, you know, his booze or his pills
He drank so much you thought he had gills’

They laughed and talked about times long gone
And Rose took Bill's hand and sang him a song

The Frog shed a tear and The Hat said a prayer
And they all said that life really was unfair.

The Knock, the Hat, the Fish and Old Rose
Said, ‘let’s tap the Toad’.

‘Yeah! Come on’, said Fred, ‘for Billy’s sake,
Let’s have one for the road’.

Copyright Phillip Miller


















4 comments:

  1. Phil - you write such brilliant poems (odes or doggerel - it doesn't matter). Loved this one. Both sad and clever.

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  2. This is a nice little conundrum for the readers to figure out down the frog and toad at the rubudubdub. Clever rhyme Phil, thanks for sharing it...

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  3. Yes, a sad but true poem. I know from what you've told me, these characters are real people mourning the loss of a real person. Well done!
    Shelley.

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  4. Not knowing what or who these characters are/were I didn't know wether to laugh or cry. It reminded me of the nonsense poems of Edward Lear. Because in Stanzas 1 to 6 you have kept very tight rhyming couplets stanzas 7 & 8 are crying out to join them. Have you deliberately changed the pattern for the final 4 lines?

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