Campervan Crazy by wartcap

Summary: The life and loves of a highway goddess.
Categories: Poetry Characters: None
Genres: Friendship, General, Poetry
Warnings: None
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 269 Read: 853 Published: 07/04/2009 Updated: 07/04/2009

1. Campervan Crazy by wartcap

Campervan Crazy by wartcap

Campervan Crazy

In sixty-nine she was polished and smug
Original curtains and hippy rag rug.
Her chrome sparkled brightly from mirrors and sills,
Sunlight reflected her fenders and gills.

She lived the Sixties, smoked Amsterdam hash,
Isle of Wight Festival; Jumping Jack Flash.
The Doors lit her fire, and hot their heels
She stuttered to Brighton on fifteen-inch wheels.

In West London she was hip and elite,
Irvine Sellers; Carnaby Street.
Each June she would watch as the Solstice sun rose.
Devon, December, together they froze.

He got married, her owner, to everyone’s wonder.
Bought a semi in Surrey and a shiny new Honda.
Daisy was left in the backyard to rust.
Reduced to a shed, filled with cobwebs and dust.

Crammed full of bygones and gardening bits;
Catcher in the Rye, and seven-inch hits.
Her pneumatic tyres had long-since deflated
When the wall came down and Thatcher was hated.

The nineties past by. Forgotten and alone.
Millennium? Who cared? Not her. Keep your Dome!
Depressed as a Datsun, her mood Volvo-blue,
Daisy sighed to herself and meeped her horn too.

Then into the yard came her owner’s daughter.
Fresh from the driving lessons father had bought her.
‘Dad!’ she bellowed, ‘this camper is cool!’
‘Can I have it, dad, please, for when I go to school?’

In two-thousand-and-nine she was polished and smug
Ikea curtains and synthetic rug.
Her chrome glimmered softly on her mirrors and sills,
Sunlight mellowed her fenders and gills.

Rubbed-down, scrubbed up, tyres inflated,
Windows washed, axels greased, petrol-thirst sated.
Off to Uni went daughter and Daisy.
Another generation of campervan crazy.

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