Welcome To Our Website

We are a friendly local poetry group that meets on

the third Sunday of each month to read our own

poetry, listen to others’ poetry and talk about poetry.

Meetings take place on the third Sunday afternoon of

the month starting at 2.00 o'clock and finishing at

approximately 5.15. In December we meet on the

second Sunday.

They are held in the library of Orley

Farm School, South Hill Avenue, Harrow, Middx.

The nearest tube station is South Harrow. There is no

access by car from the South Harrow end of South

Hill Avenue. Entrance to the library is by a door

round to the left of the building.

Fancy yourself as a poet?

Come and listen or read your own verse. This local

poetry group started in 1992. Visitors £3.00.

For further details and before coming telephone

0208 864 3149.



Below we will be placing some of our latest verse as tasters.

Saturday 24 October 2009

Dinking

Summer seventy-two’s racking
had nursery blue uprights, block board shelves,
and prayed to the far wall,
waiting to swallow its daily snacks.
Back door bell, a screech of wood to floor
and lunch stepped in.
Three hundred Vincent singles,
a hundred Popcorn, and two hundred
Whiter shades of pale, almost Dulux,
all for London’s jukeboxes, June was good.
Shame we hadn’t ordered them dinked.
So the hand stamp, bang, bang, banged
six hundred times, making their holes fit
Seeburg, Rock-Ola, Rota-Rolla
even that superb, rare AMI Deauville!
As we fed each shelf, split each order
we grooved to the latest hits on our Garard 301
jammed in a one-phone office,
behind Shepherds Bush shopping centre.
Python Lee Jackson, In a broken dream, led the way
Metal guru, Lady Eleanor, Rocket man,
we just didn’t care.
And on special days,
after thousands of vinyl dinks
we’d celebrate in our Wimpy bar,
before a brisk, diving browse
through the first Argos.

Jerry Pike
Posted by Jerry at 11:12

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