Whats In A Name? Poem by Simon Gowen

Whats In A Name?

Rating: 5.0


I was chatting with a friend today
I think you’ll find it funny
He’s Just won Thirty Thousand Pounds
Now Jack Pott’s in the money!

So then that got me thinking
Of some other folk I knew
Like my mate who’s with the Coast guard
Aaron C Reskew

If you have some dodgy plumbing
And you need to call him out
Then do yourself a favour
Give my mate Lee King a shout.

We also have a Dentist
He’ll clean your teeth for you
You’ll find him in the phone book
And his name is Mr Chu

It’s nice and quiet where I live
We rarely hear of Crime
But Robin Holmes has just been caught
And now he’s doing time

And the officer that found him
The one we have to thank
Is a happy Policeman once again
So thank you Robin Banks

Now Holmes received his sentence
From a judge called Laura Norder
A lovely looking Scottish lass
From just across the border.

A mile away, there is a Zoo
It’s run by Jim Pansy
At Christmas time it’s all lit up
By a man called Chris Mastry

Chris is the brains behind the team
That help throughout the season
He leads a team of 3, there’s him
Phil Cool and Crispin Evin

By the Zoo, there is a park
2 ladies keep it clean
Grace Quirell tends to flowering shrubs
Supplied by Teresa Greene

It’s in the park I walk my dog
I call her Nora Bone
We stop and play for just an hour
Then make our way back home

We pass the school where I first met
The singer, Carrie Oakey
We’d play around in music class
With drum sticks she would poke me!

I won’t forget the teacher’s name
She taught Carrie to sing
A friend to students young and old
Her name, Amanda Lynn

Amanda is the clever sort
The smartest one we know
She met her boyfriend on the net
His name’s Philip Eno

There’s one or two, I haven’t met
To this I must confess
But if I tell you who they are
I’ll let you do the rest

A man named Horace cope moved in
He seems a mystery
So if you find out what he does
Then please get back to me

And Sheila Blige with low cut vests
She hangs around my street
She’s not the sort of woman that
I’d really want to meet.

Joe Kerr, now he’s a funny man
He likes to play the fool
And next to him a lady and
I think her names Jean Poole.

Joe, he has a brother,
The Spanish sounding, Juan
He tends to live the single life
A solitary man.

So I’ve given you an insight
To the people that I know
I’ve rambled on for far too long
And now I have to go.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shadow Girl 26 July 2011

You are so good with words....a skilled poet and writer 10 again SG

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Joseph Anderson 08 August 2012

Wow! You really know how to play with words. Had another great laugh. You're doing great, just keep it up. A real down to earth write

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Dave Walker 20 January 2012

It's really great to read something that makes you smile, great poem.

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Vanessa Hughes 07 August 2011

A big 10 from me by the way x

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Vanessa Hughes 07 August 2011

Hahahaha, oh that made me laugh Simon...Cracking poem Nessy x

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Unwritten Soul 06 August 2011

SG telling something really true here, you are skilled one! ! It nice to know this poem here. I like when you named some people you know, that's actually reflecting how you appreciating them in a list of your memory...So i shall include this, hahaha I have just finished read a poem Simon Gowen is the writer Writing memory knit with names Skill in his hand nice poem he wrote ever Shadow girl and me talk something same That the poem was done with tone of clever Unwritten Soul is me but what in a name? I dont know but i like to try a cover_Unwritten Soul

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