JOHN BRADBURNE

Beatification is a strange concept for many
In Catholic religion, otherwise not in any
For good work, stage two toward sainthood
His value to mankind being well understood
With his work in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe
As a missionary and writing poems each day

John Bradburne, both missionary and poet
A revered name, but still few will know it
Whose poetic items received many glances
As a member of the Order of Saint Francis
Almost six thousand discrete poetic verses
Into a world of poetic writing he immerses

Regrettably for me, a belated inspiration
To compete with it needs concentration
If that large body of work total I exceed
I will have achieved little more I concede
But currently that target is clearly in sight
As I generate poetry both day and night

Imagine réveillez,
6 thousand scripts
on parade.

Dressed, versed,
rehearsed and all
individually named.

Yet none being sir,
nor not a one
being rank or file.

Volunteers of
vocation, voicing
for the silenced.

The Vagabond Of God,
shepherds letters, with
pen, and nib, on paper.


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Typeface Bold, is about John Bradburne the worlds most prolific poet.

He left behind 6,000 poems.[16] He is in the Guinness World Records for being in terms of lines of poetry alone, the most prolific poet in English. Comprising a total of 169,925 individual lines. Bradburne's output almost doubles that of William Shakespeare.[17] Most of his poems were written after 1968 and cover a wide range of spiritual, natural, elegiac and narrative subject matter. As he wrote his domestic letters largely in verse, new poems from the recipients are still occasionally found

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Ps.

According to my doctor
I am suffering from a rare
form of compulsory poetry
disorder with my current
count of 5,733 poems and the
Guinness book of records
holder John Bradburne had
6,000 composed at the time
of his death. As he is not there
to continue the challenge, I
will not take his record away
from him, but I will be exceeding
six thousand poems early 2025.

John Bradburne composed
Six thousand poems in ten
Years at a ***** colony in
Africa, twelve a day sometimes.

Seems to me that he told the
*****’s to go **** themselves
While he sat in his tent out of
The scorching sun, thinking?