Peter Dome Poet Verse

Children's Matinee

Children's Matinee.

For us kids off the common streets
Every weekend we had a special treat
Held at the old community centre
On Monksbridge
Was the children's matinee
Just a stones throw away
Where we enjoyed the films 
Projected upon the screen

Armed with bottles of pop
And spice to scoff
Bought from the local shops
We’d sit there eyes as big as dinner plates
With our elders 
To watch the show
And couldn’t wait

With the lights turned off
And the music played
We travelled on adventures
Faraway 

Tarzan Lord of the jungle
Was a favourite of mine
I must have watched dozens of times

I loved cowboy and Indians
But the cowboy almost almost won
Fighting bows and arrows with guns

George Formby and Will Hay
Used to make us laugh all day
‘’Turned out nice again’’

After the show 
We would go
Home to dinner
And talk about what we’d seen
On the silver screen

Then we’d knock on our mates doors
‘’Is your so and so playing’’
And the fun would begin
We’d act out the scenes
We’d seen at the matinee
Imaging we were Geronimo
Tarzan Erol Flynn and Flash Gordon
To ease our boredom
And make our childhood sweet
Out playing upon the street.












Peter Dome©2019.

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