Not a whinge - just a Brian Bilston poem that caught my eye.

I love his stuff!

I love Brian Bilston. Very clever as always with his play on words isn’t he? Thinking up even one of his lines would take me an age!

I loved that! Thanks Elegran.

Yes, thanks for that, Elegran. How does he do it? I’m very glad he does!

I did not get it at first but when I did I thought it was great.
I must look out and read some more of BB's poems.
Thanks Elegran

That’s brilliant, thank you for posting it.

Saw this earlier - very clever indeed. He certainly has a way with words!

I wonder if he has published a book of poems?

Yes, he has published books, Elegran. We have "Days Like These" which has a poem for every day - (highly recommended). In it are listed these titles: "You Took the Last Bus Home", "Diary of a Somebody", "Alexa, what is there to know about love?" and 2 for children: "Refugees" and "Fifty Ways to Score a Goal". I assume they are all books of poems.

I love his poems, they always make me smile and so perceptive too! 😀

This is another one 😢

My favourite is the Caveman’s lament. I’m just getting off the bus now, but if nobody’s posted it when I get home later, I’ll do it for your entertainment 😀

I remember that one, "She say, Love not invented yet!"

I love that poem.

Elegran

I remember that one, "She say, Love not invented yet!"

That’s the one!

‘She choose cave of Tim next door’

I love his poems, very to the point and very clever too

How come I’ve never heard of Brian Bilston before? No need to answer that! Absolutely brilliant. Thank you Elegran.

“I just want a little piece of quiet”

Away to look up his books.

As a child I really thought it was a ‘piece’ of quiet, i.e. a little bit of peace!

Similar to ‘rest bite’ which I often saw on a forum for carers of people with dementia. I could see the logic - the poor things were desperate for a ‘bite’ of rest.

Both of those make sense .

A slight tangent, but when I was about six or seven I overheard a friend of my aunt, who was a leader in the Boys' Brigade say he was going to 'twist a few arms' to get the boys to do something or other. He was a teacher in 'the big school' and I dreaded going there as I thought he tortured children into submission . He was a lovely man, too.

Children's logic can be very literal!

I'm a big fan and if you can see him live do so! He's a male version of Pam Ayres.

Bumping this for anybody who missed it last week and because it also contains the wonderful “Caveman’s Lament”

I just listened to him reading the caveman's lament.
I'd not heard of it before.

Can’t make it out, the words are all fuzzy.

Oreo

Can’t make it out, the words are all fuzzy.

You can read them where Doodledog posted them on this thread on Tue 10-Sep-24 15:43:24.