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Thursday 14 February 2019

EVERY TOWN SHOULD VOTE A BARD (suggests the Bard of Pynn's Brook)


POET LAUREATES
(Poet Laureate appointee in St. John’s)

Every town should vote a bard
To rhyme events in its backyard,
To laud in lines the district scene
And entertain the tourist keen:

Poet Laureates sot in every bay
And hamlet pitched along the way,
To praise aloud the quaint and saint
And Council deeds heroic paint.


The floods and snow and ice-cold air
And heatwaves causing media blare.
Births and deaths, the mayors stance on
Paving to their rural mansions.

The come-home-year, the berry fetes,
Chase-the-ace, and jackpot bets.
Windbound, icebound, moribund:
Free verse and rhyme, account with fun.

An ancient wit may mind the day
When fish and families had their sway
Before the spread of summer homes
And passing ramblers come to roam.

But now, the population takes affright
With plights and sleights, as Muskrat bites - The Province run on borrowed cash:
Dysfunction, waste, decisions rash.

The modern culture versed anew
Is potent pot for tourist crew.
Poetry slams we should expand
To boast a travailed Newfoundland.

John Tuach
Pynn’s Brook

February 11, 2019