Monday, January 13, 2003

Incendiary Comments

Rating: 2.9

That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese
And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze
As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and gold
And zany yellow as the one that spoiled
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Vernon Scannell
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Beth Monaghan 24 September 2018

Read this in school aged 12.Thanks so much for posting! Heartbreaking and so visual. Does anyone know a Scots poem, The Lost Collie, or one about ayoung West Indian immigrant girl on a cold grey day, called either The or A Newcomer? I lost all the poems I'd carefully written out as a child when my parents moved and can't find most of my favourites through Google.

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