Friday 4^th April 2008, is the day that I will be doing my reading as part of the DLR Poetry Now Festival (www.poetrynow.ie). That’s right, it’s getting closer and I have been looking forward to it since I found out about it in January…

Therefore there is something ironic about the title of the festival…  It is indicated within the title that the Poetry should be straight away… Right Now… no waiting… yet I have been looking forward to this for almost three months now and my anticipation has been getting higher and higher…

As my life is one long search for irony, I have decided that I am going to commemorate this in verse and present it to the Children I read to as part of the festival…  I will put it as part of my blog when this has been achieved…

For the time being I will leave you with the following poem…

Miniature Melanie from Melton Mowbray

Miniature Melanie from Melton Mowbray

May have been small but she could really play

A mean game of football.  She played in the park

With her friends, Michael, Matthew and her brother Mark.

More and More people came to join in,

But they’d get upset as her team always did win.

And they couldn’t believe that this small female

Showed such great skill that they all did fail

To take the ball off her, she just couldn’t be caught,

If she was in danger, as a last resort,

She could run through their legs, due to her size

And she’d be away before her opponent would realise.

But the fact that her team was always triumphant

Didn’t always work out the way Melanie did want

Sometimes no one would turn up at all

And all she wanted to do was to play football.

So she goes home and is upset,

But she has a plan that she uses to get

The boy’s playing football with her again,

She plays really badly on purpose and then

They are all happy and after a while

Melanie decides it’s time to turn on the style.

She plays really well and it always does seem

That the best team to play for is Melanie’s team.

But the other team soon get fed-up of losing,

So not playing football’s the decision they are choosing.

So Melanie play’s badly again and I think it’s a shame

That she has to do this just too get a game.