Brian Strand Poet Rhyme

Let Me Tell You a Story

it all started with Rupert Bear
until
  . . he was found too square
then Just William came on the scene
but soon 
   a childish has-been

into Enid's Famous Five
happily
       before PC could deprive
Julian,Anne 
George & Rick
      writing  fast moving & slick

youth-filled reading
         a melanged mix
Biggles & squadron,sixty-six
the hero,Algy & Ginger
              against the hun
an air ace made him number one.

growing into mid-teens&
       weekly Hollywood magazines
adolescence & steamy Jansen
    puberty  so sudden.

the adult library 
        then opened wide
answering questions none could hide
since then
   many read    
       good,poor     & rotten
                
but 
books  books  still to find
    to fill
          my university of the mind 
   
  'til poetry
   
then found me

      to rhyme verse  to thee
     
    
    

Year Posted 2007

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Gary Radice May 13, 2021 at 1:07 AM Love it! And I have to add I'm a Rupert Bear fan owning many of the annuals - All the 60s and 70s, some 50s and a 1949 edition...but don't tell anyone! :) ..I loved how, in the illustrations, every time Rupert stood, or was making his way to a bus stop there was always a bus on its way in the distance. Cheers - Gary Brian Strand May 13, 2021 at 2:38 AM There is a poem there somewhere Gary.Have a good day.