Mumsnet for Poet Laureate

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Please add a verse.

I see Queen Liz in her mother of the bride dress and coat ensemble,
Unchanged in colour and cut throughout her long reign,
Same old, same old, but new.

Her recession weary subjects battle on in tunics not from Primark,
Better an ethical tunic today and an Individual Voluntary Agreement later,
Than a Chinese child appliqueing a Western conscience.

The Grandsons, beyond the help of grade inflation, tsk,
And Waity Katy, what does she do?
Apart from wait, and cover her ears to calls for "doors to manual" from the thinning grandson's boozy chums.

Please add a verse/ write a new poem.

Let's hope Madamez's shift falls in the dead of night, when Queenie is fast asleep. The shock might otherwise precipitate a constitutional crisis.

Threadie - I'm so jealous. Is that a sapphic stanza?

Threadie - Or is it simply dactylic pentameter?

No. You should never use a sapphic stanza in the same construct as a homophobe.

And clearly a dactylic pentameter is an olympic event for dinosaurs.

Do you think we can expect a collective commission very soon?

She really is scouring Fenton, you know.

Lol at academic hair.

Threadie, duck! She's hurling homophobes.

Am Isensing from this thread that the position of p. laureat is up for grabs at the moment? I didn't know that.

How many feet does a dinosaur have?

x-posts re homophobes

double lol at olive oil

forget about dinosaurs, I'd worry more about your open couplet swedes. What with that and the oily blouse, you might attract the wrong sort of attention.

Andrew Motion needs a cure for iambic constipation

Oilily Onebat.

Who is this Fenton, anyway? And does he have a thing about being scoured by oily women?

James Fenton book here It is a brilliant book. I bought it to help DS1 (with the poetry part of his GCSE) and it helped enormously. I recommend it.

Oh gosh that A Motion link is really awful. Poor man.

Though I am a bit surprised that he didn't anticipate that his critical currency might be diminished (and his style cramped) by such a close association with the most famously parochial, in terms of its taste and ideas, family in the country.

I'm not sure about a collective laureate. Some of us can't do proper poetry. So:

Said the Queen,"I cannot do better,
For a poet than choose a Mumsnetter.
I'll make her a Dame,
OneBatMother by name"
But the grumpy old Duke wouldn't let 'er.

Bloody hell threadie! That's astonishing. What a brilliant boy - will you tell him you;ve shown us or will that embarrass him? If you do, will you tell him how impressed I was? Ten!

LOL Grimma! Damn that duke.

Threadie - I'm so impressed. What a wonderful young man.

Thanks very much. (I don't think he'd mind me linking to it.)

No threadie - far too much spirit for the dull ceremony of laureatship!

From looking at the excerpt of the Fenton book I now realise my DD must be parodying Gawain - 'wlonk' is just her sort of spelling.

George wrote this last year - it was published in the school magazine.

The Circus
Painted faces and diablos were flashing all about. Lions were swimming around my head like a kaleidoscope. The animals racing through the gate. Only growls of satisfaction could be heard. The clown was weeping for all the animals formerly of the circus were free. The clown was to carry on ... alone!

at Musty Bucque candle