The Equator

Hello Poetry Lovers

This poem by lovely poet Trisha Broomfield from her first collection The Equator and Other Disappointments really struck a chord with me – with us. Mostly the pack of lies grown-ups told us when we were children! And how we fell for it!

I also recall how I was betrayed by Beano comic that Australasia was upside down! Apparently it isn’t! How could the hallowed Beano spin me a line like that?! There, you see how the bitterness is unleashed. Shame on you, Beano!!

Read Trisha’s frank and personal piece below, and I think you’ll feel the way I do….

The Equator and Other Disappointments

They told me if I watched the water as we crossed the Equator

It would

Flow the opposite way

Down the plughole but it didn’t

They told me if I was good when I had my tonsils out

I could have ice-cream

But they brought me junket

Have you any idea how that tastes?

They told me if I ate the skin from the fish

I would be brainy

Really

They told me if I ate all the crusts from my toast

I would have curly hair

And if I finished my supper

there would be no starving children

in the world

TB 2016

There you are, Poetry Lovers, so true, it’s almost painful. What nonsense were you told as a child?! Adults were just awful, weren’t they?!

A beautiful piece, Trisha. Thank you so much for letting me publish it on here.

Thanks for tuning in, PL’s. We’ll be back with more poetry action real soon…..