Someone Else's Head

I have a very busy weekend coming up since Steve and I are off up to Ellesmere for an Olympic distance triathlon that is the first qualifier for the World Triathlon Championships in Edmonton, Canada on September 1st. The next day we have an open water swim at the stunning Eton Dorney Lake venue where last weekend we did both The BTF Sprint Championships and the next day was the open version of the same event Put on by the amazing Human Race team. Thanks guys. We did those two as a warm up to the big charity 75 x 75 Tri's Challenge that will keep us both busy from June 1st until August 14th which is my 75th birthday. By the end of the 75 Tri's, in aid of The Chestnut Tree House Children's Hospice, it is hoped that we will both be in a stunning state of fitness and ready for the Worlds two weeks after. Of course we may both be completely cream crackered and have to spend the two weeks resting and mending!

If you like this poem please donate to the charity because that is what it is all about. The training the events the challenge itself and the freakin' poetry too. So Let the moths out and Show Me The Money..... Please. You can see the painting it refers to by google-ing Norman Rockwell Girl Reading the Post, it is priceless.

Somebody Else’s Head 

It is not a secret, some things are well known

I love Norman Rockwell, that much is set in stone. 

There is a book brim full of his inspired works

And my own copy by my bedside quietly lurks. 

My bedside collection, is saved for an insomnia night

All other times these books just raise my bedside light. 

When ‘the wide awakes’ strike, I silently browse through

Time to spare at last to select a favourite one or two. 

Girl Reading the Post, painted in nineteen forty one

Sheer genius, this commercial piece is still such fun. 

A teenage girl’s body, scrunched socks and fluffy mitts

A magazine models face held where her own neatly fits.

 

Engrossed in more adult information than she knew

Scruffy shoes will be replaced with her education new. 

A young girl sits holding someone else’s head

A new reader by Mr Rockwell’s clear idea’s fed.