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Poem for the day 6 - A Puppy called Puberty

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Luckygirl Fri 07-Aug-15 10:07:10

A PUPPY CALLED PUBERTY by Adrian Mitchell

It was like keeping a puppy in your underpants
A secret puppy you weren’t allowed to show to anyone
Not even your best friend or your worst enemy

You wanted to pat him stroke him cuddle him
All the time but you weren’t supposed to touch him

He only slept for five minutes at a time
Then he’d suddenly perk up his head
In the middle of school medical inspection
And always on bus rides
So you had to climb down from the upper deck
All bent double to smuggle the puppy off the bus
Without the buxom conductress spotting
Your wicked and ticketless stowaway.

Jumping up, wet-nosed, eagerly wagging –
He only stopped being a nuisance
When you were alone together
Pretending to be doing your homework
But really gazing at each other
Through hot and hazy daydreams

Of those beautiful schoolgirls on the bus
With kittens bouncing in their sweaters.

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Stansgran Sun 09-Aug-15 20:53:47

No Phoenix I'm happy to be judgmental when I thought they wrote crap, and certainly I'm not patronising as I posted some poetry written in a different vein so that as you mentioned you could decide for yourself though I didn't have you in mind rather the poster who felt the one about schoolboys having unwelcome erections was "pervy". An awful lot of the Mersey Beat poets get stuff ending up in comic and curious verse and I think they deserve better. The last time brian Patten was in Durham for a reading,Roger McGough's son was an undergraduate here and they all turned up to cheer him on.

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Luckygirl Sun 09-Aug-15 20:56:25

I think both those poems are of value - they are just very different. One of the joys of poetry.

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jinglbellsfrocks Sun 09-Aug-15 20:58:04

The poem makes me feel uncomfortable. That's all. I've got a feeling my soon-to-be fourteen year old GS would hate it. #leavethekidsalone

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Luckygirl Sun 09-Aug-15 21:06:59

I would think that most 14 year old boys would nod their heads in agreement. Adolescent boys do have trouble with unwanted erections and it can cause them embarrassment. It is turbulent time for them and this is a cheery way of expressing that.

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