Best Amis Poems

ACHTUNG, MES AMIS

The islands resolutely isolated from the shore
had atmosphere : they were redolent of an insolence
which betokened ‘Do come and get me, if you damn well dare.’
Its minor mountains, be amazed, look, of an eminence

protruding from deceptively calm waters past La Manche,
scant altitude, but...

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Author Kingsley Amis
also gave poetry his literary kiss
Ever an enemy of pomposity
as in his light verse we see...

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