Friday, 20 April 2012

Sir John Betjemen's Rocket



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
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5 comments:

  1. paperworker20 April 2012 at 08:11

    Love the idea that some elderly eccentric Englishman is launching rockets from his tidy little yard...wonderful!

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  2. Fi Webster20 April 2012 at 08:23

    Whooooosh—I love it!

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  3. Collage Craft20 April 2012 at 16:28

    Fun! 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.

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  4. Crafty Dogma20 April 2012 at 17:20

    Great coupling of words and image. Lovely work.

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  5. Wastedpapiers20 April 2012 at 22:48

    Thanks 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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