CELIA'S POEMS

No 376          March 25

At the start of the pandemic,

My poems I did begin,

So many people asked me,

For a book to put them in.

I thought this too ambitious,

Just a lovely dream,

A book when you are 84,

Just does seem too extreme.

Then along came Catrina,

24 / 7 she’s in pain,

She said that she would help us,

I didn’t like to ask again.

But bless her she came back to us,

And said she’d try her best,

She worked through all her illness,

And now you know the rest.

Although I’m proud of my achievement,

It’s Geoff and Catrina I must praise,

Without them there would be no book,

And no money could we raise.

Of course this Covid’s gone on so long,

Much longer than we reckoned,

As I’m still churning poems out,

Of course, the book, there’ll be a second.