Bill Wright Poems

The old man looked up, glasses on head
Sitting in his own chair, by the fireplace.
Aye, I know what you want to do, he said
As he went to the table, and cleared a space.
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Down, down, down
Deep into the ground,
The miners go again,
Off to do their daily grind,
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We didn't want Corona
But it's here to haunt us
It's come to taunt us
We didn't want Corona
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Let's walk the deck,
Take in the sights,
Waves tossing and turning,
With all their might,
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‘Tis more than forty years ago we wed
The lady of my love and my life
That sweet young girl with hair of auburn red
The one I am now proud to call my wife
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I shine in the sun, sturdy and strong.
I have to be.
Men's lives are in my hands.
Up, up and up they climb.
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They say it is all online now
I tell them to get lost
I want it the way it was before
Just send it through the post
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I saw him running down the road,
I watched it happen on TV,
A first sub two hour marathon
By that Kenyan Kipchoge
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I am a weary weaver
Working at our local mill
Twelve hours a day I sweat
Oh why am I here still?
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It was an image which shocked the world,
Face down upon the shore,
That desperate, drowned Syrian boy,
No more than three or four.
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