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