“spitfire” / ‘the Few’ Poem by guy lipmore

Sleek and iconic.
Marvel of design, superb.
Curves of magic,
Many a true word.
Describing her look,
A magnificent machine.
Captured in reel and book,
Most beautiful there’s been.
A few remain,
Even less still fly.
The “Spitfire” name,
Will never die.

10/07/10

‘The Few’

Once brave young men,
Now less of the few.
‘Battle of Britain’
They fought through.

Time takes more,
Of the brave.
Like the war,
Life cannot save.

With their ‘machines’,
To win liberty.
Both it seems,
Have earned immortality.


20/08/10