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This download is the complete version of Peter’s fourth book and includes “The Engineer of Blennerville”.    This poem has been set to music and recorded on CD, DVD and Audio Tape by the late musician and entertainer Johnny Barrett.

Contents

Your Flexible Friend,      The King of Vegetables,      Old Pop's Rap,      A Poem for Peace,      The Television Set,      The Engineer of Blennerville,      The Lure of Sport,      Beds of Hope,      The Boneshaker Bus Bound for Cork,      The Crossword Puzzle,     Grainne and Diarmuid,      Noah nd the Ark,      Nathanael and Sue,      Dear Santa,      Skellig Rock.  

(First Published 1993)

SAMPLE  VERSES 

 

YOUR FLEXIBLE FRIEND

There is nothing funny about plastic money,
It's as good as the real stuff, they say;
Notes and coins you discard as you take out your card
And travel without cash all day;
Your worries have gone and you drive to the town in a flash:
Your flexible friend has relieved any need to have cash.   .…(cont)

 

THE ENGINEER OF BLENNERVILLE

There was a lonely city girl,
She was just twenty-three,
Who took a two-week holiday
And came down to Tralee,
And after all the tourist sights
In summer sun and rain,
She went to take a trip aboard
The Blennerville steam train.   .……………(continued)

 

THE BONESHAKER BUS BOUND FOR CORK

There's many a wonder of which people talk
But nothing quite like an old bus bound for Cork;
A cross-country service, the driver called Séan
Says the bus had been built long before he was born.
It's uphill and down dale with sharp hairpin bends,
'Cross bogland and wasteland, the journey ne'er ends
With stops every corner and every bohereen,
The driver pulls up where a passenger's seen.    .…(continued)

 

SKELLIG ROCK

Standing at the edge of dawn as daylight matches dark,
I see a shape far out at sea: it is a basking shark?
But is it one or is it two?   The morning mist unveils:
These shapes, I thought at first some sharks
Are ships with billowed sails. ………….….(continued)

 

 

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