Poetry

Thursday, 4 September 2025

Corncrake

 The lowland scrub where the corncrake croak

Like a buzz on a cockroach's throat

Like a disco, a turn up to vote

In the booths of policemen

When they ring the yard on the phone


Oh the lowland reeds and the heathery belt

Where the corncrake hides in his feathery pelt

And the cornflakes fly and the cocoa pops melt

To the rice crispy cries of snap crackle and Celt


Oh lay myself down for to hear the Corncrake

On the isle of Canna where the canned worms wake

And they opened and wriggled around on the make

For the blue sea glistened but I never heard the Corncrake


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