Unruly Royal Member
A prince (now preceded by Ex)
Whose conduct can only perplex
Embraced a connection
Which cost him rejection
And the chance, though remote, to be Rex.
Dual Purpose Designs
An artist exclaimed, “What’s the use?
My prints are a prey to abuse,
As I’m saddened to find
In the popular mind
Etching’s linked with attempts to seduce!”
A Call For Better County Lines
“The Devonshire landscape has produced more
bad poetry, perhaps than any other in England . . . “
– W.G. Hoskins Devon.
1954
The shire, though large, lush, atmospheric,
Was labelled dull by Robert Herrick
And, later, Hoskins claimed the flood
Of verse inspired there pretty dud
Not tasting of the true Pierian
But, beverages, alas, small beerian.
So, time to set to work and cleanse
The place from slurs like these with pens
Which delve in deep poetic mines
Until the name of Devon shines!
Jerome Betts
If you have any thoughts about this
poem, Jerome
Betts would like to hear them
