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in the house of parliment many years ago

guy fawkes  had a plot the house was going to blow

he stored up his dynamite in the cellar down below

till the time was right and it was time to go.


but guy Fawkes he got caught before the time was due

the houses of the parliament were never ever blew

now we celebrate this part of history

with fireworks and fires this ancient mystery.


when November comes and fireworks burn bright

the time we all remember what happened on that night.
Nolan Higgins Jan 2018
'Twas during The Troubles,
when my uncle did,
made haste with his lads,
and in Belfast hid.

Their votes they cast,
and still the British stayed.
So they took up arms,
and like pianos they played.

Making bombs in the basement,
very carefully they planned.
They laid them at the entrance of Parliment,
let those imperialists be ******.

Ooh ahh! Up the R.A.!
They shouted in the night.
Tiocfaidh ár lá!
They gave the Brits a good fight.

Thirty years later,
in a prison my uncle still lays.
He writes me letters,
He still believes in brighter days.

When the brits are out,
He'll go home.
Tend to his flock,
this Irishman will never bow to that throne.
-- Sep 2017
i get nervous when i think about you-
yet if you called me over tonight i’d probably be there in 20.

i used to write poems about my ex’s marlboro reds-
now i have trouble muttering a word about that parliment
hanging off your lips so eloquently.

i can only pick myself off the ground a few hours at a time everyday-
the rest of the time my fingers are fumbling to the tune of my inner
ramblings of anxiety.

i move around my room arranging objects no one really needs-
for what?
to tune out the sound of your voice in my head
telling me I’m probably doing something wrong-
again.
on a dark day in november many years ago
a plot it was in place that  Parliament would blow
guy fawkes and his conspirators in the cellar down below
put gun powder in to barrels time for parliment to go

but they were discovered before the plan went through
they arrested guy fawkes along with all his crew
in the tower of london they were locked away
now they celebrate guy fawkes to this very day

with fireworks and fires and an effigy
we remember guy fawkes. and the history
november the 5th.   fireworks are set alight
while the fires burn on a bonfire night
a)
a)

solitude
woo
chet baker do
almost blue

alone or alien
too
teacher asked-
what are you

kind of red
that goes
ah..

b)

all they ever
wanted
was your heart

to stick little
pins-in and laugh
now is that too

much to ask
for free
of course..

ii

a)

sunday morning and
they even messed
with the time..

b)

what is wrong with
colour
i wish to be

a sunflower or a
bright vermillion
dragon

with a flickering grey
tongue
with eyes

as dead as the ages
one toe raised
and a tail quivering

like a nightmare
before and always
you..

iii

a)

dark lily?
´tis the season to be
the bloodied rose..!

b)

we never celebrated halloween
it came across the ocean..

the vicar said it was sick
we burned revolutionary catholics-

we built effegies
and begged pennies

the nieghbours said o
eff off now-

but ate our baked potatoes
we had fire works and fire so

rockets and catherine wheels
named after crucified martyrs

roman fountains and jumping jacks
and second degree burns

the sirens lit the rainy night
sparkelers bright wrote

we sang,remember, remember
the fifth of november

gunpowder, treason and plot..
and drank hot

soup and that,pyramids
can´t recall what they did..

b)

at school we learned
of guy fawks
who tried to blow up

the houses of parliment
but was grassed up
he was hung drawn and quartered

and his ashes scattered at
the crossroads
his head upon a spike

on westminster bridge
or something
how times change..

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