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Three Beat Poems

by  Mickey

Posted: Saturday, October 7, 2017
Word Count: 129
Summary: I wrote these after watching “Sex, Chips & Poetry: 50 Years of The Mersey Sound” on BBC4. It inspired me to dig out the original and to attempt some of my own




Lovers’ Tiff
 
I’m hanging
 
     on your every line
     pegged out
     to dry
 
     …... waiting
 
     my breath is bated
     will you bite
     or should I
 
     …… broadcast
  
     to the nation
     that war has
     been
 
     …… declared?



Frustration
 
I suggested we elope
     but you said “nope
          it’s too far to go”
 
We’ve still not been
     to Gretna Green
          but I hold out hope
 
that one day soon
     you’ll go all the way
          waddya say?
 
 
  
Ode to a poem
 
You were my first born
twentysixyearsago today
happy birthday opus one
I remember your gestation

        in my mind

before I delivered you
ontothepages of this world
Would I change you?

        not one line

In you I am well pleased,
the first of many
poem children
    born out of wedlock
        but entirely
           legitimate