Whilst tidying up yesterday, I was sorting through old bills and stuff, when I came across my Poem. I wrote this one dinnertime when I was in the sixth form at school. It was in a room at the top of Somerleyton. There was a typewriter in there and a pile of letters to parents about the school building society branch. I used these to type out my poem, and I’ve scanned it in; you can see the letter through the page.

my poem

You don’t need me to tell you it was inspired by Wordsworth.

If you can’t read the words, either click the image for a larger version or read the words below.

I wandered lonely as a cloud,
  In my rubber dinghy,
And as I wandered, I came across
  A huge and lonely whale.
The whale, it made a sound, quite loud,
  But I couldn’t give a toss.
Then suddenly, from the depths of it,
  There came a mighty gale!

The whale it was a-blowing,
  A-blowing very hard.
My little dinghy was a-blown
  To strange and far off lands;
To where the weather was snowing,
  And where it couldn’t moan.
Instead, the silly dinghy shouted,
  ”On deck I need all hands!”

O, what a silly thing to Write,
  ’Cos dinghies do not talk.
O, what a silly verse that was,
  To make my dinghy speak!
And then along came a tall knight,
  Who resembled the Wizard of Oz!
Up he strode, and said, “Hello,”
  And made my knees quite weak!

                                                      by Caity Taylor, 1991.

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categories: Art and Literature
tags: poetry
last modified: 2nd Dec 2011