Sunday 10 June 2012

Magpie 121


"Compare me to a 'summer's day?'
Oh, no!" quoth Mistress Hathaway.
"For, dearest Will, hast thou forgot
That summer's days are rarely hot?
Though gobal warming cometh, dear.
It will not be for many a year.
But I will take thy verses, all,
And pin them to the kitchen wall.
For it may be, the day will come
When they will fetch a tidy sum."


(With thanks to Tess at Magpie Tales for the picture)

28 comments:

  1. Loved this take..almost did it myself...it is screaming Pride and Prejudice type writing!

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  2. Brilliant, clever and oh so very funny. You are on your game today, Frances! Thank you for sharing. I shall take it to my sister-in-law's and read it over the dinner hour, tonight. We are in need of this poem to lift our spirits. =D

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  3. We can but live in hopes! LOL :)

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  4. Wow. Differently beautiful. Loved this.

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  5. Clever, confident anachronisms. I particularly like the way she berates him for his failure to describe her as "hot!"

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  6. take all thy verses, and magnet them to the fridge would be a really cool anachronism!!

    painting details

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  7. That way you get something out of them at least…ha

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  8. Love, love reading your witty, fun Mags!! This one is no exception.

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  9. A witty write! And maybe that tidy sum will pay for the carbon footprint tax!! :)

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  10. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you, Frances.

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  11. That's cheered me up on a wet Monday morning!

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  12. Lovely! Have you thought of publishing a book of your poems? (Or, maybe you already have?)

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  13. Seems your running red hot with this one, Frances !

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  14. Wonderful verse and is that you next to Bridget Jones on the 3 for 2 shelf? Wow, wow and another wow!!

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  15. right start with a classic line - solid piece

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  16. Now there’s a woman who was thinking ahead. Well done on a witty piece.

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  17. Thank you for all the very kind comments. And Gail, you're very sweet, but no. I have never published poems, because, sadly, I can only write silly stuff, and there are a great many peole who are much, much better :(

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  18. I know I'm going to smile when I come here...

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  19. Witty and wise and all things nice!

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  20. Clever witty write (as always) Frances.

    Anna :o]

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  21. I wish that I could think of some suitably witty retort but I'll just have to make do with admiration.

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  22. Quick and quirky. A perfect little read!

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  23. Wonderful poem for Summertime
    vagabond admires your pithy rhymes.

    :^)

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