Friday 4 March 2011

Rock at the Pawleyne Arms, Penge





















The local guitar slingers are all here
They are slightly frazzled from work and tax.
It’s a golden blur of music and beer –
Come down to the Pawleyne Arms; bring your axe.
Dionysius beats up Apollo
In cycles, new forms emerge from decay
Good times are replaced by bad tomorrows
But, here, the old songs don’t go away.
The riffs are passed on from father to son
Battered and polished like prized old guitars.
Peter Green, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton
Are remembered in these faded old bars.
Their hair is sparser now; these cavaliers
Revive the glories of their former years.

Penge
is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Bromley. It is located 7.1 miles (11.4 km) south east of Charing Cross. 

Shakespearian sonnet: robust, reliable old vehicle with a large capacity, like a VW camper. 

Jeff Beck (pictured). Not as soulful as Peter Green or as flashy as Clapton; guitarist's guitarist.

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