Football Poets

Thank you Sharon, same to you.

bestest

Good to see you are still writing your wonderful football poetry John. All the best.

Thank you Clik. Football like Christmas never fails to take us back along the corridors of childhood.

A simple pleasure.

And crafted beautifully.

Many thanks for featuring my poem. It’s been one hell of a journey but for all the bad times I’m still here supporting my home town club. Play Up Sky Blues !

Re: first verse of ‘My dad’ by Joe Morris..

Great words Joe…Moving.

It also reminds me, of all the people that I’ve been with in my life that just didn’t get football at all, full stop. So basically you never mentioned it, unless you enjoyed dumbfounded stares or extensive yawns! .

People who I talked with at length  , often on their level, about loads of other stuff we both  loved and like you basically everything but football!

This coincdentally included  my  strange dad : David Thomas : a brillant bohemian beatnik CND and Peace loving artist.  He was someone who, being a very  young writer and artist myself , with whom I could have had and shared  so much stuff in common, but who I only finally met when I was 15.

As a result, and with the over-riding presence at atmosphere of his new partner and new step-son, I only actually got to see him intermittently very briefly for around 20 years, before he passed on..

Your poem also reminds me of John Lennon’s words from the song ‘Julia’:

Half of what i say is meaningless,

but i say it just to reach you..”

Haha, thanks Crispin, I hope you can at least see your pie well enough to eat it!

Great imagery Joe …but I struggeled to read it in the fog at first…

Looks like FGR are going up as champs Crispin ? A season is the proverbial rollercoaster ride, up and down and twists and turns. As Greavsie said ” It’s a funny old game. ” We love it though. ⚽️

Tell me about it Kev…!!!!!

Great emotion …just how  we’re feeling here in leafy Glos!

best C