Today’spoem

QUEEN OF MAY

Parks are packed with people Enjoying the springtime sun, For it’s the May bank holiday The season to have fun. A maypole on the village green Awaits the dancing girls, With coloured ribbons in their hands They love to twist and twirl. The May Queen sits upon her throne With flowers all around, A beautiful girl in a silken dress Is ready to be crowned. Tulips are seen in abundance, The yellow, the pink and the red, Softly swaying in the breeze Gently nodding their heads. A carpet of beautiful bluebells Ring out in this month of May, They brighten the wooded hedgerows All lit by a sunbeam’s ray. I simply love what May does bring With its blossoms of pink and white, The May-tree out in splendour, A truly magnificent sight. A. R. Hopkins, Beltinge, Kent.