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Vergers Poems - Poems about Vergers


viii: Solidarity Wednesday

...Sir – darest V.C.,
We all heard the peals of the bells:
The V.C.’s vergers made the call,
From the huge peel of their vicar –

Sir – V.C.,
The V.C. spoke for solace,
To the gathered restive mo...
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Categories: vergers, parody
Form: I do not know?

Xiv: Forced Excursion Again

...Sir –
Late in the noon as usual
Came the vergers with the sharp bells
(Prof, a roused lad saw not the Vicar)
Announcing another blessed excursion;

Of course, Sir –
The endemic hubbub
Reigned...
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Categories: vergers, education
Form: I do not know?



Xiv: Vehement Condolences

...Darest V.C. –
We all heard of the flute of the regency,
Tho’ it told of a few in the house-pital:
Yet we know it was the exordium!

Darest V.C. –
Tell the vergers of the gods,
The forest is ex...
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Categories: vergers, satire
Form: I do not know?

Xv: a Terror Spot

...Dearest V.C. –
Youngsters saw it:
The vicar’s holy inscription
Borne by native vergers
Of foreign-hearted gods!

Remember 
Canaan’s voyage then
Was so long: so unthot of
For some weavers
At...
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Categories: vergers, lossfire, fire,
Form: I do not know?

Xi: How We Feel

...Dearest Vicar –
Did the vergers say it?
Did the ears hear it told:
How we feel – lads & lasses?
Not like stones as you thot
Not like wood as you felt
Not even like your vagabond vergers!

Are...
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Categories: vergers, education
Form: I do not know?



Ix: Holy Communions

...Yesterday:
Ant-hillers danced within the sky 
(Pig-watchers and men clashed!)

Today:
(The sky still cloudy for ant-hillers)
Every ant is summoned
To departmental communions
Where pot-bellied...
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Categories: vergers, educationsky,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things