Verse that rhyme was supposed extinct it had gone the way of time <br />Till along came the Poet Laureate who rejuvenated rhyme <br />He breathed new life into poetry in a style he made his own <br />And without his name to it one still could tell a John Betjeman poem. <br /> <br />If you are a fan of Betjeman in his fan club you remain <br />You will take his book from book shelf and re-read his verse again <br />You will read his witty verses and then put his book away <br />And re-read them and enjoy them when the time is your's one day. <br /> <br />Some may say his rhymes are simple and his verses race along <br />But the man had natural talent he was born with 'gift of song' <br />His verse show freshness and has humour and originality <br />And he's rejuvenated rhyme verse in the twentieth century <br /> <br />He is with the dead of England but his verse keep living on <br />And the poet is stilll remembered though the poet is dead and gone <br />He wrote of the ordinary people English town and countryside <br />And his fans still in the many and his poems known far and wide.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-reading-poems-of-john-betjeman/
