Truculent Virtue
Here I am and here I'm staying!
Came a voice from my balloon
There amid the fountains playing
Fragments of forgotten tune
Through the mist, the stubborn songster
In his blast-beruffled plume
Beckoned to a blood-smeared youngster
Who was taking too much room ...
Contributors: | dkb, Roland, (trad), Apsley, loaf. |
Poem finished: | 4th October 2001. |