Spike's Bonfire

I've just finished a piece for a challenge for our local CQ group.  The theme was poetry, size 15 x 20 inches.  Having been educated as a scientist my poetry knowledge is rather small, but I always loved the mad humour of Spike Milligan, and even knew a couple of his poems.  I rejected:

I must go down to the sea again,
To the lonely sea and the sky;
I left my shoes and socks there -
I wonder if they're dry?

though I am very tempted to use it again in the future.  Instead of which I went for a serious poem of his:

If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
you would drown when I said
'I love you'.

Hence my piece :- Spike's Bonfire

I really enjoyed this challenge - I hope our new series goes as well.