CELIA'S POEMS

No 337        February 15

I have a friend called Shirley,

We’ve been friends forever,

In fact it’s such a long time

As we went to school together.

Her husband was called Ronald,

But we all called him Ron,

He was fit and ran the “Three Peaks”,

Should have called him Run not Ron,

My son organised a mini bus,

To Halifax we did go,

It was to see Shakin Stevens,

Jim knew I loved him so,

Not long after the show started,

Ron said I’m going to the bar,

So he hardly saw the show at all,

Just wished they’d come by car.

When the show was finished,

We all went for a drink,

Jim saw 2 men loading Shakin’s bus,

Said to Ron “What did you think”,

Well he said I wasn’t keen,

My son watched the 2 men,

He said I really enjoyed the show,

And pointed to one man again.

Ron said “is that him then”,

Our Jim said, if you’d stayed you would know,

Well Ron ran over and shook the man’s hand,

And said how much he enjoyed the show.

The man looked on in amazement,

Ron saw us near to tears,

He called our Jim a few choice names,

This is going to need some beers.