General Poetry posted May 28, 2023

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Friendship

Girl Band

by Debbie D'Arcy

For three decades and three years more

We've been a rebel team!

We've grown and rocked for all these years

And really lived the dream!

Probation was the start of it

With friendships forged from that.

We'd get together in the bars

Imbibe with stolen chat!

A healthy outlet was our goal

Probation far too straight.

We aimed our poisoned arrows far

In dreams if not true fate!

We travelled wide to see those cons

Whose lives had come undone.

Then shopped to displace all we'd seen

Determined to have fun!

West Wales was our Christmas treat

To 'Cawdor' for a roast

Then down the road and round the bend

We'd hotfoot up to 'Toast'.

There Wendy swooned in classy black

While Paula writhed in pain

The costs too high, the joint a con

From shopping she'd abstain!

Then Ireland as a jaunt we chose

We travelled to the south

And bestowed a gift on Dublin -

A plight of Foot and Mouth!

While Helen sought things cultural

And Bev and Paula roamed

Wendy browsed and Em'lie danced

And Cathy sadly moaned!

But then as age would take its toll

And Helen sadly died

Her cancer missed for all those months,

Heartbroken, we all cried.

And Cathy too, we loved her wit,

But that could not withstand

The suffering that etched so deep

She too would leave our band.

But, oh, the memories they left

We'd forged o'er all that time.

We mourn their loss but celebrate

Their lives couched in this rhyme.

So now our group, though much reduced

Our bonding's extra strong -

With Beverley, Deb and Wendy,

Paula, Em'lie and Von.

We pour out hearts with laughs and tears

Shoot always from the lip

We boast a gift that makes us proud

True friendship - joined at hip!

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A little artistic licence in the first stanza (sorry)
Con - convict or offender. These were the highest risk.
Cawdor - a lovely hotel in Llandeilo with delicious food
Toast - a classy clothes shop none of us could afford
Foot and Mouth Disease - outbreak in 2001. One of our party had incomprehensively stroked a sheep the morning of our travel and there were strict precautions at the airport. She was allowed on the plane and didn't knowingly spread the disease further!
Emilie was in a habit of dancing on her own - this time in a men-only (quite common in Dublin) public bar. I was mortified!

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Friendship

Girl Band

by Debbie D'Arcy

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