Here is a poem submitted to me by a fan lucky enough to have met actor Patrick Macnee (Steed) in 1998. Hope you will enjoy it.
"EQUINE AVENGER"
With a suave, enigmatic turn of lip,
an umbrella propped neatly at the hip,
a steel bowler tilted at a jaunty angle,
suggests a force one shouldn't tangle.
From red carnation in buttonhole
to saville row crease cutting dash to stroll,
This latterday Union jack of all trades
strides deep sarcasms in his escapades.
His taste in ladies are like his wine,
superior , full bodied, mature, refined.
This sartorially suited , pin-striped St
George of good British stock, finely forged,
enunciates in rich red sherry tones,
as Mrs Gale and Peel, Miss King or Purdey
groans, of the evil that men often do,
(practised keenly by the gentle sex too)
being soundly thrashed by this dapper chap
with thrusting brolly or a steely slap,
his ice cool nerves a faith engenders,
shouldering high a banner of the Avengers!
In closing we exit down a country lane,
in a vintage Bentley to a catchy refrain
and one wonders where John Steed would be
without the charismatic Mr Macnee?
by MARTIN RICHMOND
Do you have any Avengers poems, stories, episodes, etc.? Please send them to me.
