A Bowtruckle in my Back Yard
A Silly Poem by Darren Kelly
Just outside my back door
Like all Fine days before
I took a walk through the garden in my yard
The sun shone bold and bright
My doggie on my right
I recited words of wisdom from the Bard
The rose blooms I stopped to smell
I smiled at a bee and left him well
For I would not see him marred
Then by the tree
Just as clear as can be
Stood a Bowtruckle in my back yard
I said "Hello little friend!"
For I dared not offend
This tiny guest that stood at my feet
I held out my hand
With no threat or demand
Just intentions to pleasantly greet
He climbed up on my arm
Knew I meant him no harm
Said it was I that he had come here to meet
We went in for some tea
And a biscuit or three
As he told me a story so sweet
How he'd come a long ways
Many miles, many days
To find a muggle so wise and discrete
Their green forest home
Where the Bowtruckles roam
By muggles had been torn down
His family was found
Now imprisoned and bound
In a cage in a work yard in town
He begged me for help
This sprig of a whelp
Who had turned my whole world upside-down.
So I smiled and said yes
Promised I'd do my best
For the story he told made me frown
We got into my car
Though it wasn't to far
We knew that we had to prevail
Bowtruckle lives were at stake
Make no mistake
In our mission we dared not Fail
Drove in the work yard
Past the sleeping night guard
Was a note on a rusty old pail
To the highest one bid
Or For 500 quid
The note read Forest Creatures For sale
If I'd money to spare
And I hadn't a care
I would buy them and set them all free
But as I was broke
So before the guard awoke
We had to sneak inside to see
To the side was a large cage
Inside bowtruckles did rage
We had to set them free!
The clock went tic-tok
As my friend picked the lock
The Bowtruckles climb all onto me
Well we ran for the hills
Drove to north Seriffvilles
Forested sanctuary
Where more Bowtruckles lived
And a wave I was gived
As they left me excited but wary
So I said my good-byes
Tears welled in my eyes
As this burden I would have to carry
Though hard to conceive
No one would ever believe
A story so fancifully Faerie!
Upon returning home
Feeling very alone
A knock came at my front door
I said there's just no one here
Which sounded quite queer
To these people I'd not seen before
They knock once again
Most insistent and then
They did something they hadn't before
The door lock unlatched
And a new plot was hatched
As the magically pushed open my door
Men in long overcoats
Asked to hear my anecdotes
Of magical creatures of yesterdays date
So we sat in the parlour
Tea and biscuits from the larder
And I told them my tale so great
I was born a squibb I was told
Chose muggle life which was bold
And my memory was wiped to that date
So they hoped I'd understand
And the men shook my hand
Pointed wands and said OBLIVIATE!
I stood there alone
In my parlour by the phone
To remember things seemed awfully hard
So I warmed up some tea
For my doggie and me
Had a feeling I couldn't discard
That something so grand
Lightened my life so bland
Sat a shadow I could not regard
So Just outside my back door
Like all Fine days before
I walked the garden in my back yard
Like all Fine days before
I took a walk through the garden in my yard
The sun shone bold and bright
My doggie on my right
I recited words of wisdom from the Bard
The rose blooms I stopped to smell
I smiled at a bee and left him well
For I would not see him marred
Then by the tree
Just as clear as can be
Stood a Bowtruckle in my back yard
I said "Hello little friend!"
For I dared not offend
This tiny guest that stood at my feet
I held out my hand
With no threat or demand
Just intentions to pleasantly greet
He climbed up on my arm
Knew I meant him no harm
Said it was I that he had come here to meet
We went in for some tea
And a biscuit or three
As he told me a story so sweet
How he'd come a long ways
Many miles, many days
To find a muggle so wise and discrete
Their green forest home
Where the Bowtruckles roam
By muggles had been torn down
His family was found
Now imprisoned and bound
In a cage in a work yard in town
He begged me for help
This sprig of a whelp
Who had turned my whole world upside-down.
So I smiled and said yes
Promised I'd do my best
For the story he told made me frown
We got into my car
Though it wasn't to far
We knew that we had to prevail
Bowtruckle lives were at stake
Make no mistake
In our mission we dared not Fail
Drove in the work yard
Past the sleeping night guard
Was a note on a rusty old pail
To the highest one bid
Or For 500 quid
The note read Forest Creatures For sale
If I'd money to spare
And I hadn't a care
I would buy them and set them all free
But as I was broke
So before the guard awoke
We had to sneak inside to see
To the side was a large cage
Inside bowtruckles did rage
We had to set them free!
The clock went tic-tok
As my friend picked the lock
The Bowtruckles climb all onto me
Well we ran for the hills
Drove to north Seriffvilles
Forested sanctuary
Where more Bowtruckles lived
And a wave I was gived
As they left me excited but wary
So I said my good-byes
Tears welled in my eyes
As this burden I would have to carry
Though hard to conceive
No one would ever believe
A story so fancifully Faerie!
Upon returning home
Feeling very alone
A knock came at my front door
I said there's just no one here
Which sounded quite queer
To these people I'd not seen before
They knock once again
Most insistent and then
They did something they hadn't before
The door lock unlatched
And a new plot was hatched
As the magically pushed open my door
Men in long overcoats
Asked to hear my anecdotes
Of magical creatures of yesterdays date
So we sat in the parlour
Tea and biscuits from the larder
And I told them my tale so great
I was born a squibb I was told
Chose muggle life which was bold
And my memory was wiped to that date
So they hoped I'd understand
And the men shook my hand
Pointed wands and said OBLIVIATE!
I stood there alone
In my parlour by the phone
To remember things seemed awfully hard
So I warmed up some tea
For my doggie and me
Had a feeling I couldn't discard
That something so grand
Lightened my life so bland
Sat a shadow I could not regard
So Just outside my back door
Like all Fine days before
I walked the garden in my back yard