POETRY PARODIES

My version of famous poems in the style of the poet

ODE TO PAM AYRES

Pam Ayres, you are my idol..

A RED RED NOSE

With apologies to Robert Burns
Poem of the week

ACADEMY

Academy, Academy - there's nothing like Academy! My opinions after a lifetime in education.

I REMEMBER

Apologies to Thomas Hood

THE RAVING

With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe

THE CHARGE OF ARTHUR LEGG

A modern charge and its disastrous consequences. Apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson.

PEACE PIPE (I.P.)

Hiawatha's Happy Hunting Ground. With apologies to Longfellow.
Cherry

THE LONELY WANDERER (I.P.)

I wander, aimless, through the crowd All hustling, bustling, never still Through London streets beneath a shroud Of mist and dust, to Tower Hill,...