101 VERSES
By Author Alan Fenton
INTRODUCTION
“These verses are about a variety of things that either amuse me or trouble me about life – as, no doubt, they do many people. Some are about things I love, like dogs, some about things I hate, like the hunting of wild animals, some are about belief and disbelief, some about faith, or lack of it, some about love of life and fear of death, some about my views (no doubt shared by many!) on politicians, and Scientific Advisers! I had great fun writing them. I hope you will enjoy reading them.”
Alan Fenton
PREVIEW of 101 VERSES
By Author Alan Fenton
The fly
This fly
Dive bombs me in the kitchen.
Raising the Times to swat it,
‘Die, fly! Die!,
I cried.
But hard as I tried,
I never got it.
I saw it again the other day,
Crawling across the floor,
Buzzing its short life away,
I raised the Times to swat it.
But I couldn’t do it.
I couldn’t kill that fly.
So I closed the kitchen door
And left him to it.
Don’t ask me why.
~
God Song
That’s God out there
On the garden gate,
Fluffing out his wings,
Bowing to his mate.
And that’s him singing.
How beautifully he sings, does God.
You’d think he was a blackbird.
~
The Hunter
I shot a hunter in the fall,
And gave his neck a trim.
His head looks better on the wall
Than it ever did on him.
For many years I got my thrills
From shooting the big five.
I hunted them so successfully
Not one of them survive.
The wildlife I loved to kill
Is impossible to find.
So instead of hunting wild things
I hunt the human kind.
The animals have disappeared,
But hunting is such fun
That I’ll go on killing people
Till my hunting days are done.
~
Time to Woke up?
It’s time to rebel,
Time to send all prejudice to hell,
Time to heal, time to mend,
Time for cruelty to end,
Time to be strong, time to be bold,
Time to break the stranglehold
Of men on women,
White on black, Straight on gay,
It’s time to get our freedom back,
Time to celebrate a brand new day.
Hip Pip! Hip Pip! Hip Hip! Hooray!
New let the golden age begin.
Out with the Out!
In with the In!
Reject the Unwoke
Masterly
Master key
Master craftsman
Man-of-war
Manchester
Manic
Manipulate
Romantic
Black hole
Blackberry
Black and Tan
Black cab
Black Sea
Blacken a name
Blacksmith
ba baa black sheep
Blackpool
Gay Gordon’s
Straight laced
Straight away
I’ll have it straight up
The straight and narrow
Embrace the Woke
Missterly
Misses key
Misses craftsman
Woman-of-war
Womanchester
Womanic
Womanipulate
Rowomantic
White hole
White berry
White and Tan
White cab
White Sea
Whiten a name
Whitesmith
ba baa white sheep
Whitepool
Heterosexual Gordon’s
Gay laced
Gay away
I’ll have it gay up
The gay and narrow
And we’re all quite sane!
Or are we?
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101 VERSES
By Alan Fenton
"These verses are about a variety of things that either amuse me or trouble me about life - as, no doubt, they do many people. Some are about things I love, like dogs, some about things I hate, like the hunting of wild animals, some are about belief and disbelief, some about faith, or lack of it, some about love of life and fear of death, some about my views (no doubt shared by many!) on politicians, and Scientific Advisers! I had great fun writing them. I hope you will enjoy reading them."