Party Piece Poem by Brian Patten

Party Piece

Rating: 4.1


He said:

'Let's stay here
Now this place has emptied
And make gentle pornography with one another,
While the partygoers go out
And the dawn creeps in,
Like a stranger.

Let us not hesitate
Over what we know
Or over how cold this place has become,
But let's unclip our minds
And let tumble free
The mad, mangled crocodile of love.'

So they did,
There among the woodbines and guinness stains,
And later he caught a bus and she a train
And all there was between them then
was rain.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Paresh Chakra 04 December 2018

This is a very interesting poem

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Brian Jani 09 May 2014

Brian Wow I enjoyed your poem nice one

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Martin O'Neill 08 March 2012

This is just superb. The evocation of place and atmosphere - Woodbines, Guiness, gentle pornogrphy, .... and the ending caps it all. Love this poem.

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Maxwell Ryan 22 June 2009

One of the great poems. Shows you don't have to be obscure or clever. 'The mad, mangled crocodile of love', fab!

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Penelope Goring 08 March 2009

I got The Mersey Sound for my 10th birthday from our lodger. It is still one of my best loved books.

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