CARGOES (with apologies to Masefield)
(First published in “Winged Words” January 1979)See the local Pelican,, as fussy as a mother hen
bunged-up with pallets, now she’s on her way
Stately as a galleon, she’s rising over Altrincham
to lay-an-egg for England in Amer-i-kay!
Quinquereme of Nineveh? – A DC-8 of T.M.A.
sailing in from Lebanon, all wide and high
with a cargo of tangerines, pomegranates, oranges
then ’umping out of Lancashire with cow-’eel pie.
Amazing “Super-Guppy” (as flown by Aeromaritime)
ferrying the Channel, and though nowt it brings
it’s floating like a bubble into very solid Manchester
to swallow up another pair of Airbus wings.
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