Selling Haiku for #WorldPoetryDay 2016
acute listening
appreciate first
before
asking then shut up
-Hugh Alford
On level 5 of the Royal Festival is the Saison Poetry Library is the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. It is are the major library for modern and contemporary poetry and are funded by the Arts Council England.
I dropped in a few weeks ago and asked if they had any poems on Selling. Here is one to celebrate today on World Poetry Day.
The Salesman *
By Bertie
Ramsbottom ( Ralph Windle)
Salesmen, of whatever
races,
Look the same at fifty
paces;
Notwithstanding girth
or size,
Something lurking in
their eyes
Indisputably asserts-
This guy’s in sales,
so watch your shirts !
Salesmen must however
fearful,
Act indomitably
cheerful,
Riding round their
carousel
Of never ending need
to sell,
And knowing, if their
meet their quota,
It’s up, for each
successful rota.
How they do it no one’s
saying
But when they don’t,
it’s time for praying.
*A Book of
Business Ballads 1985
ISBN
0-7126-1057-X
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