My Poems
Vera Brierley nee
Powell
Holidays
Christmas has gone
and summer lies ahead
Forget the cold
weather, think of sunshine instead
To prepare for
holidays seems early days yet,
No harm in looking
for places to let
The holiday brochures
make a colourful splash
So study them careful
before you send the cash
It’s pleasant to do
this on a cold winter’s day
A start to a holiday
in a pleasant sort of way
The winter seems
dreary when will it end
Look forward to sunshine
and money to spend
The anticipation is
quite a nice part
To eagerly wait for
the holiday to start
Sometime later the
venue is found
And the whole
operation gets up of the ground
All that is needed
without going rash
Is to work out a
budget that leaves enough cash
After all that is
said and done
It’s great to have a
break in the sun
To forget the worry
and care
And to be refreshed
for another year
The Road Sweeper
He wields his broom
in a professional way
And sweeps the road
clean as he does each day
And as he sweeps from
side to side
He looks on his work with
so much pride
He has become a part
of the scene
And the place looks
better when it’s clean
He has a good name oh
high repute
The humble man in his
orange suit
His job to some
people only merit low grade
But merit is of man
and not the wage paid
To work to the full
at his own steady pace
And leave everything
looking a much better place
The work of the
seasons he also achieves
The snow in the
winter in autumn the leaves
These questions and
others the climate may ask
Are answered as
always as he does his task
The work the man does
and the status it gives
Are not so important
as the way he lives
To do the job
properly and always is fair
A man will be known
for his pride every where
The paper boy
They pedal their
bikes on the frosty road
With the papers in a
bag it’s their daily load
Early each morning
it’s the same old rounds
To earn each week a
couple of pounds
Whatever the weather
they rarely fail
To deliver the papers
with the morning mail
And people at
breakfast digesting their toast
Can read the
newspaper as well as their post