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Open Poetry #40

The Great Divide

ivordavies
Senior Member

since 2007-01-10

Posts 739
Chester, England

0 posted 2007-05-23 04:13 AM

The Great Divide

Our ancestors crossed all the seas,
way long before our time
and conquered lands so strange to us
across that salty brine.
But since they sailed across the pond
they’ve changed you must agree,
no man from here… the ‘Motherland’,
would waste our precious tea!

Our language carried on the wind
got blown around a bit
and though it’s now quite similar
it doesn’t always fit.
So now a ‘Great Divide’ appears
on both sides of the brine,
though all of us in our own way
are doing really fine.

I think that some must see us here
as ‘Lords and Ladies’ bold
or peasants wearing our flat caps
just doing as we’re told.
There’s them that feel an Englishman
must keep ‘stiff upper lip’
and never utter words that try
to make a funny quip.

So if responses to your words
or even some of mine
are taken in a ‘different’ way
and change the very line,
remember I’m an Englishmen
and humour has to be
or why on earth would I forgive
the drowning of our tea!

For it’s a compliment to find
I’ve savoured all your words,
took them to heart and then replied
though you thought that absurd.
The simple subtle difference
in words across the pool
can change a compliment to you
and make you feel a fool.

I never would upset a friend,
and drink coffee now and then
to try to understand the way
‘your’ words fall from your pen!
So please accept the humour here
is really from my heart,
the ‘words’ you see are just for fun,
it’s feelings I impart.

But tell me if I’m misconstrued,
I’ll hang my head in shame
if ever through my language
I turn poetry to pain.
Would I give up and go away
and feel I’ve said enough,
no my friends I’ve weathered well,
I’m made of stronger stuff.

So please excuse my ramblings,
it’s what I feel inside
and if you do not get my joke,
just blame ‘The Great Divide’.

Ivor G Davies

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Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2007-05-23 08:20 AM

Ivor,
Subtle to some but I enjoyed your write.

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