I have a beard (face fungus)

[David]

I have a beard.
It is a splendid beard.
It bristles with integrity
and prickly pride.
Rare birds nest in it
and find sustenance there.

Great men have always had beards:
Sophocles, Pericles,
syphilitic Hal,
Brahms (but not Liszt),
Jesus, too, perhaps,
but that was a wispy little thing.

Lately I have come to worry
about my beard's intentions.
Imperial by nature,
it seeks, I fear, Lebensraum.
It has a map of my face
and pushes little bristles about.

[camus]

Gotta love a beard poem!

Enjoyed the humour, but couldn't quite place how it would seek Lebensraum?

nice one.

[barrie]

it seeks, I fear, Lebensraum.

I hope it isn't going to annex Poland!

[k-j]

No mention of ZZ Top?! They're the epitomy of modern expansive pogonomy.

Wait, I get it, this is written from the POV of Gibbons and Hill!

[David]

I am a ZZ Top free zone.

[Elphin]

Nice one David.

What about the places in your beard where you keep the toast crumbs for later or have the nesting birds fed on them?

elphin

[py0sra]

Hilarious, favourite line is about Jesus "but that was a wispy little thing" i wonder what he would make of that comment? also enjoyed the idea that the beard has a life of its own and threatening to take over with its "intentions", great use of the word, i thoguht beards were quite lazy until i read this poem, seems they are busy invading
Sam
x

[David]

Cheers Sam, tis just a silly little thing, but I'm glad you liked it.

[beautifulloser]

Haha! Fabulous. Love the first stanza.

It bristles with integrity
and prickly pride.

Is just fabulous.

If anything, lacking the gentle contemplative stroke, even if an obvious cliche . . .

Can imagine this spoken with a Withnail And I thing going on:

We want the most splendid beards of humanity, we want them here, we want them now!

Me

xx