Denys E. W. Jones Poems

Once I had a dog that wagged its tail.
Barked night and day till the neighbours complained.
P’lice came round, put the dog down.
Dog don’t bark no more.
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While Amazonia burns,
And polar ice-caps melt,
Or flood defences burst,
You sleep, you sleep.
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We have heard the chimes at midnight,
We have sailed the ocean blue.
We have seen the Hanging Gardens,
Now what else is left to do?
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I stand on the corner picking my nose,
No paperazz’ snaps me, nobody knows.

I sit in the main square, no mob rips my clothes
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Contract run out? Find a new job!
Not so easy, though.
Chill the economic winds
That this winter blow.
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Who will buy my sweet, red roses?
Who will read my rhymes?
Who will listen when I speak?
Pass with me the time?
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Contribute a verse, contribute a verse,
Who can contribute a verse?
Contribute a verse, contribute a verse,
You can contribute a verse.
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Clean, fresh air to breathe,
Something in which to believe,
Collar and tie for the office,
Bucket and spade for the beach.
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I threw a gauntlet down to Time,
And challenged him to run
A mile or two alongside me,
And then we’d see who’d won.
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He did not win the Nobel Prize
For Literature nor Peace.
He was not hyped up to the skies,
The late Miguel Delibes.
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