Sir John Betjemen's Rocket
How long it flew, how straight it flew,
It cleared the leafy gardens
And soaring disappeared from view
Beyond Windsor , Brent and Morden
A glorious , whizzing rocket now
That's on it's way to Slough
Collaborative traditional cut and paste (scissors and glue ) collage blog with a weekly set theme.
Love the idea that some elderly eccentric Englishman is launching rockets from his tidy little yard...wonderful!
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ReplyDeleteFun! Pretty! What a rocket! I see John Betjeman was poet laureate of England from 1972 until his death in 1984. Nice poem you wrote to go with this piece. He would have loved it.
ReplyDeleteGreat coupling of words and image. Lovely work.
ReplyDeleteThanks all. Betjemen is one of my favourite poets mostly for all the wonderful films about architecture and the railways he made ( see YouTube). I stole bits of one of his poems to make mine - sorry Sir John!
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