Imperial Fiddlesticks

Gold cherry

By Michael Valentine

Fri, 27 Feb 2015
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Imperial Fiddlesticks
 
I confessed to be a poor man
And before long the sky twinkled
How can a man get far when the nights are spent upon his back?
You see, such sufferers will topple at the tipple of a hat
Well, can you climb atop a raincloud?
Have you ever seen your figurine atop a cake?
Is my boredom my illness, or is it my pain?
Or, in this context, is it all the same?
The kitchen window is broken
The kitchen worktops are soaking
My hopes, dashed, and my romantic dreams scorned
My top-hat, unworn, and the wedding-coat, torn
My tea is cold and my lighter won’t catch
So it’s an evening, alone, a starlit and cold bath
 
Goodness gracious, my imperial sweetheart
And good golly, imperial kitten
Heaven above, imperial fiddlesticks
O! Lordy, I don’t imagine I’ll be home for dinner
 
I confessed to be a poor man
And before long the doors were bolted
As I scoured the wastelands for something blue
Something borrowed and nothing new
And after all, I’ve nothing to show
A signpost in the streetlight offering nowhere else to go
So my tea is cold and my lighter won’t catch
As I take another night of solitude and a freezing cold bath
Certificate PG
Poem
White Lines and Black Rhymes

Comments

Submitted by Canonette on

This really appealed to me - something very Victorian music hall about it.  Fiddlesticks is a fabulous word.

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Full of music, feels like a song and a dance, even though it has a touch of the blues.

Submitted by Canonette on

Back to read this again.  I'm so intrigued by this character.  I'd love to read more about him, or even write about him

 

 

Submitted by Michael Valentine on

Thank you for reading and commenting, folks. The musical feel is something I've been trying to weave into my work a lot more of late, I'm glad it's coming through.

Cannonette, the Victorian vibe is probabaly because I've been reading a lot of from that era of late: Dickens, Butler, Carroll, Yeats,Bernard-Shaw, Browning and Rossetti. I'm glad you're finding it so interesting, that is the aim, I suppose. I've written a few more in this style and along the same themes so I'll be posting them within the next week, I imagine. Cheers again for reading.

Michael.

Submitted by scratch on

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