O'h I do like to be beside the Seaside!

So I have written a few Ditties about the beach. 

I don't think anyone will really want to read this Blog but I do have some verses for cards too so it's a way to record them in case I loose my poetry Books. 

For this one I made a Tag/card for a DT Project a few years ago and needed a verse - My Mam always loved to be beside the sea and I have really good memories of us all at the beach when we were kids. There were five of us Girls and not a lot of cash so we had to share two swimming costumes between us. The Costume was always really wet and cold by the time it was my turn? Still there was always the Skirt tucked in the side of your knickers thing if you were just paddling!!  

So this is short and sweet but just brings my Mam right back to me. Xxx

 

Golden Sands

Happy Memories of Golden Sands

of Ice-Cream Chips and Tea

But most of all my darling

Happy Memories of you and me. xx

                                         By Sam



Front and Back, this Tag fitted into a square envelope, wish I could still get hold of these.

 

 

 

So here is another Beachy Poem I wrote round about? O'h My Goodness it was about 23 years ago???

I did get an offer to put this in a Poetry book but everyone talked me out of it and said it was a con because they wanted you to buy a book too??  How is that a con? to buy a book that you have a Poem Published in?? I wish I hadn't listened to them.  I found out later it was cosha too.

 

O'h I do like to be beside the seaside....

 

I wandered along feeling grand

My toes were sinking in the sand

the Sea was splashing on my legs

the Seaweed floating out in dregs

 

The wind was blowing in my Face

I was alone, but I had to race

along the Beach and in the Sea

running and skipping, O'h silly me?

 

I love the Sea I love the Sand

I love the Shells here in my hand

I love the smell I love the breeze

I paddle deep, up to my knees

 

I did a second verse afterwards. There was an oil slick and I saw a sad little bird in a newspaper with its wings out to the side and it couldn't move because of all the oil. 

I cried for that poor little Bird all day.

 

Birds 

 

I wandered down to the sand

now I'm not feeling quite so grand

the Sea's not splashing on my legs

the Birds are floating out in dregs

 

Their feathers are covered in oily grime

they are dying slow, they've had their time.

O'h Man, will you ever learn

I should point out its soon our turn

we dish out death like you've never seen

It'll be much worse if we don't go green.!!

 

one friend once said to me "Green"??? Yes I said as in The Green Piece Women who spent years outside of a nuclear base trying to get our Country to disarm.  Everyone thought they were bonkers at the time. In fact in the Forces I had to pretend to be one of them and try to attack an Aircraft so that the Men could learn how to handle them???  Now I think they were heroes!  They gave up their whole structure of life to try to fight for the safety of the World.

 

Oh dear, getting a bit deep here so I think I will call it a day on this Post.

If anyone is interested, thank you for checking out this Blog, if no-one is interested I will write it anyway.  I am very shy about my Poems and Ditties because I have absolutely no idea if they are any good.  But they are there, so I will keep recording them on this Blog and then maybe print the whole thing page by page and make a Journal with it.

 Luv Sam

x