Poems: Flags In Three Acts

Philip Hurst

May 3, 2024 — 1 min read

Hello all,

Poetry on a Friday. Wow. You are lucky things. I've had a bit of a disrupted couple of weeks so I'm not quite back to the usual routine, but I scribbled something down after seeing a set of flags on a block of flats the other day.

I thought - where do people even get flags nowadays? And the following started to form in my head.

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Flags

Act one

Flags pledge allegiance

Created on foreign shores

Cash transcends patriots

Act two

Your money flows overseas

For flags that profess

To show patriotism

Act three

I do love this place

I have flags up everywhere

I know where I am

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