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Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 08 Jul 2020, 17:00
by Tomliner
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
Two metres from the madding crowd,
When all at once my name was called
To enter the Waitrose hallowed hall.
This was the pensioner’s special hour
I’d gone to get a bag of flour,
But I forgot -when through the door -
What I had gone to Waitrose for.
The Waitrose staff are extra kind
I told them it had slipped my mind,
They ask what else I had forgot
They clearly thought I’d lost the plot.
I phoned my wife again to ask
She reminded me of this special task
“I need some flour to bake a cake
With all that cream you made me take!”
“Ah yes, I recall” I had to lie,
I dared not ask what flower to buy,
But then I saw them at the tills
A host of golden daffodils EricT
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 08 Jul 2020, 17:29
by cstorey
Now that is splendid . If you want more Wordsworth, you'd better watch Rumpole tonight at 9 pm on Channel 81 !
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 08 Jul 2020, 20:09
by Filonian
Brilliant
Graham
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 08 Jul 2020, 20:12
by FlyTexas
Wordsworth was a man ahead of his time.
Brian
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 08 Jul 2020, 22:50
by JohnD
That’s great Graham.
May I use it on our local retirement village website. Nearly everyone would relate to it.
John
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 08 Jul 2020, 23:11
by Tomliner
That’s great Graham.
May I use it on our local retirement village website. Nearly everyone would relate to it.
John may I just point out that it wasn’t Graham who posted it but little old me.Yes if course you can use it as you request, I have no ownership of it at all. It’s a delightful short poem which I believe Is in the public domain and I hope your website readers all enjoy It.
EricT
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 09 Jul 2020, 07:32
by Filonian
Tomliner wrote: ↑08 Jul 2020, 23:11
That’s great Graham.
May I use it on our local retirement village website. Nearly everyone would relate to it.
John may I just point out that it wasn’t Graham who posted it but little old me.Yes if course you can use it as you request, I have no ownership of it at all. It’s a delightful short poem which I believe Is in the public domain and I hope your website readers all enjoy It.
EricT
Mistaken for the Poet Laureate now. My, my, whatever next?
Graham
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 09 Jul 2020, 08:13
by Tomliner
Mistaken for the Poet Laureate now. My, my, whatever next?
Aren’t poets supposed to have long unkempt hair Graham? Now your barnet’s gone I don’t think the title is appropriate ‘til it regrows.
EricT
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 09 Jul 2020, 08:19
by Airspeed
Good find, Eric!
Brightened our return home after a long day out.
Re: Wordsworth In Lockdown
Posted: 09 Jul 2020, 09:32
by JohnD
John may I just point out that it wasn’t Graham who posted it but little old me
Oops sorry Eric. Goes to show what we’re like here.
Thanks
John