Bessie’s Big Day
\nby cricketjeff on June 6, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nDefiantly wheezing she smokes as she goes
\nApproaching the hill where the lavender grows
\nNow passing the fields where the men used to toil
\nAnd she and her sister turned over the soil<\/p>\n
Behind her, her daughters are forming a queue
\nThe dignified old leading lines of the new
\nThe hedges ignore her they don’t mind the noise
\nBut gates boast a gaggle of goggle-eyed boys<\/p>\n
A lay-by to lie in while modern cars pass
\nThen into a meadow of green summer grass
\nHer polished black paint shining bright in the sun
\nAwaiting tomorrow and carloads of fun<\/p>\n
Sir Lancelot’s dodgems, and gallopers too
\nThree Fodens from Brighton will sparkle like new
\nAn Aveling Roller and Showmen galore
\nBut Bessie is Queen of the Steam tug-o-war<\/p>\n
It’s off to the rally to witness the past
\nTo honour these giants that vanished too fast
\nWith sawing and threshing and ploughing to see
\nAnd maybe the best is these engines make tea!<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI just wrote a FV poem called Climbing the Hill, because Bessie didn’t want to
\nrhyme, and then she decided she would after all.<\/p>\n
Bessie, if you haven’t guessed is a traction engine, probably a Fowler
\nploughing engine from around 1910<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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