For National Poetry Day !

GAMES

They tell us life is all about games,
helping to shape our specific aims;

it’s no good rotting under a tree,
dreaming of the vital, perfect she.

You can learn much from Monopoly,
lose your shirt playing Totopoly

- a horse racing game – a real wind-up
- don’t forget to seize the shiny cup.

Then they say life is not just a game,
that each working day must be the same:

polish the C.V. and business plan,
you are just a servant of ‘The Man.’

In lunch breaks, perhaps, a match of chess,
or watching your dream French maid undress;

maybe pool will be the perfect cue -
pocketing balls that are straight and true.

Some are astray – lost lotus-eaters,
the poets’ of one hundred metres,

always stumbling at the finish line,
insisting the game is going fine.


Paul Judges


http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/


This year's day is October 6th, with the theme GAMES.