Monday 16 August 2010

the old choirboys

- God has no address

under the tree's whisper
the walk terminates and
the old choirboys stand as a group would

and with tight lips
and lines they talk around
to the finer points of canine

husbandry
and other domestic
and equally pressing issues

a recent hair in the soup
and how one of their number
spilled the beans

then someone sniffs
and someone swallows hard
- someone else has coughed

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gw2010

10 comments:

  1. I was in a church choir as a teenager and this resonates. ...not so much with my conversation but with that of the older elite members of whom I was in awe!

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  2. Thank you Gerry. I'm pleased to have captured the mood. I was a grade C- rated singer at junior scholl and was politely told not to sing but to silently move my lips. I retired early.

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  3. A great sense of reunion that leaves you wondering about those beans!

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  4. Thanks Dominic, As you see in this case the cliche is OK. It can be so.

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  5. Circling around something here.

    What's in the middle, I wonder?

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  6. what's in the middle?
    maybe
    we can ask the whispering tree or maybe one of the boys will tell?

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  7. This paints a lovely picture Gwilym.
    Lovely to have you back in blogland - I have missed you.

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  8. Thanks for those lovely words, Pat. By the way, Tess was only doing what comes naturally. She's a dog after all, and those other animals, well they are rabbits.

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