Open Wide

By Enri Vilmos

Open Wide is the second book of verse written by Enri Vilmos. It is a curious collection of poems on a number of themes that cover the comic, dramatic, and absurd aspects of life. The book deals with subjects from the environment to adventure at sea and sometimes steps back in time to record the antics of minstrels and knights busy at work and play. It is the intention of the poet in this anthology to give an immediate and descriptive portrait on all the topics without laboriously adhering to rhyme and meter. The book Open Wide is another stage in the development of the writer in an effort to find his own voice!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jun 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781493193233

Enri Vilmos

Enri Vilmos is a poet and musician born in the UK but has now settled in the beautiful countryside in the heart of Hungary. It is in this quiet setting that he is able to practice the difficult skills of playing classical guitar and writing poetry. It was late in his life that he decided to study for an arts degree and music diploma, which he accomplished after several years of arduous and difficult endeavor. The author of Open Wide also trained to be a teacher during this period and taught and lectured at many schools and colleges in Britain on many subjects but mainly music theory. Music has always been my first love. But poetry is a creative process that gives another outlet of expression in which one is able to communicate ideas and emotions and stir the imagination to a different level. Enri Vilmos, BA hons

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Contents

The Ghost in the Crow’s Nest

Silence

Awake!

Bowled Over

Sir Gadabout

The Argument

Spiders Spin Webs

The Cat

Seasonal Shadows

Young Porker

The Lucky Parrot

Twice-Nightly

The Clock Struck One

Jive at the Hive

Scenes from a Dream

Blake’s Cake

Cockeye Watchman

Billy

Madeira

Drunken Sailors

Gnome Alone

Owl

Nosferatu (Nosh)

Miss Parry-Bar

Piggy Lamont’s Lament

Diamond Mining

Aunty Pasta

Cupid’s Wings

El Monti

The Ghost of Eden Past

Bryn (the broom)

Moonbright

Spinster

Fruit Cocktail

Princess Primula

Captain Schooner’s Tavern

Environmental Apocalypse

Raydar

Minstrel

Real Estate

Glory

Greenwich in the Mean Time

DiscoDan

A Marrow (in a Wheelbarrow)

Sounds Familiar?

Higher Ground

Comrades

Seven Fathoms Deep

®Evolution

Flies Can Smell (they do tell)

Field Day

Jack the Crack

Trade Winds

Who Goes There?

The Wicked Witch of Woolton Wood

Pig on a Stool

Mystery Tour

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The Ghost in the Crow’s Nest

The captain on this night would have no rest

A storm rages and moves in from the West

And the heathen banshees screech and wail

As the waves bring down the mast and sail

On a ship that would lose skipper and men

In a precipitation at gale force ten

Then destined to drift on the endless tides

Battered and beaten, attacked on all sides

Above in the sky an albatross flew (When)

A ghost in the crow’s nest said it once knew

At least four and twenty jolly jack tars -

That performed a hornpipe beneath the stars

Upon the deck in shoes with buckles bright

(The cabin boy was drunk – his head was ‘light’)

And each glass was filled with fiery rum

As the concertina played along with the drum

A toast was made to the king and his son -

And the navy for the battles they had won!

O come now lads a shanty we shall sing –

The girls in port can have a wedding ring!

The spirit remembered the halcyon days

Of those now at peace in watery graves!

Silence

Silence is the strongest song

It has no rhyme it has no reason

Embraces each and every season

Casts its shadow short and long

Today, yesterday, and tomorrow

On every tide at ebb and flow

In gardens where flowers grow

And the wilderness of ice and snow

A symphony sublime is shared

Orchestrated but never heard

And once upon a summer’s day

The poet’s words did come my way

and in the quietude was revealed

A most remarkable attitude

that gently soothed and healed

Inspired by a Chopin prelude

and rhythm of the rain on leaves

and birds that warbled melodies

In a distant field the sabers rattle

but the devastation and violence

subside and once again the silence

returns as victor of the battle!

Awake!

How dark the day, now bright the sky

When swallows spread their wings to fly

The cuckoo with its plaintive call

Heralds Spring and the Butterfly Ball

Blossoming trees and fragrant flowers

Multiply in April Showers

Birds from bough and branch will sing

When honey bees sweet nectar bring

How blue the sky with golden sun

Shall see the rabbit play and run

Through field and pasture, wood, and green,

To where the red fox prowls unseen

The snow and ice are now a dream

Sparkling in a silver stream

But soon will reach the raging sea

Then vanquished for eternity

How sweet the day, how vast the sky,

Now springtime beckons us all to try,

In bluebell wood a fine array

Where the children enjoy the day!

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