Category Archives: Self compositions

If with a love of poetry we are smitten

and are fascinated by how it’s written

reading words laid down in the earliest time

using their nuanced metre and rhyme,

reading such as Wordsworth, Byron too

who were looked upon as something so new

with words of love, nature and dreams

instead of just religious themes

whilst poetry in the modern age

seems to be full of frustration and rage

until when we read between the lines

the poets reflect our hearts and minds.

The auditorium is in darkness.The stage curtains slowly open, a single spotlight shines down. An expectant hush settles throughout the auditorium. The audience burst into loud applause at the sight before them, slowly fading to a hush which rapidly turns into embarrassed laughter. Quiet at first then gradually rising to full-blown guffaws as It dawns upon the expectant horde that the brown coated man on the stage is not from the first scene of, “The Caretaker,” but the actual cleaner with his brush sweeping the stage.