In Other Words - 'shut Your Gob! ' Poem by Pete Crowther
In Other Words - 'shut Your Gob! '
'Make a less noise',
my grandad used to say.
'Keep silence
in the ranks'
our old naval cox'n
hoarsely barked,
and 'Tikho, tikho, gospoda'
gently hushed our
Russian tutor, so
what was with all these guys
that they were always trying
to shut us up?
In my home (a hundred years ago or so) it is rumored that my great-grandmother used to glare at the children across the dinner table saying, 'Let thy vittles fill thy mouth!) I think your way is ever so much more colorful, Peter. This is fun. Raynette
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5/18/2024 12:20:48 PM # 1.0.0.1119
My Grampy always told us, 'Children were meant to be SEEN, not HEARD.' So there. Then somewhere else I read that we spend the first year of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to sit down and shut up! ! Can't win for losing. Maybe that's why we're poets - still trying to find our voices! ! Scarlett