How can I write poetry when it’s back,
When cricket is back on television?
Up I get in the morning
And the tele goes on.
It is unheard of normally
But on this day I had cricket all morning,
And rugby all afternoon,
I was in my ‘field of dreams’.
At a time where I write poems
I was watching cricket,
The first time live test cricket
Was available to me.
It took me back to those days long ago
When cricket was always on the tele,
Those days of Cowdrey, Close and Dexter
Hitting the ball on black and white tv,
Wonderful childhood days.
Now it was back,
Back in my life in these Strange Times,
So some good had arrived in my life.