Terry Ireland Poet Rhyme

Kids Comics

With The Dandy, The Beano
The Eagle and Dan Dare
Dick Barton on the radio
The Goon Show on air
Riders of the Range
Journey into space
We kids of the fifties
Had our special place
Glued to the wireless
No screens in sight
The Third Programme the
Home Service and the light
When Sunday night came
Waiting patiently about
For Radio Luxembourg 
Fading in and out.
Carters little liver pills
Horace Bachelor’s tips
For winning  the Pools
Fish and four of chips
Salt and vinegar Splash
Newspaper wrapping
Listenining to the music
Feet quietly tapping
Playing in the fields
Hours out in the wild
This was the life of
A fifties poor child.
No time to be miserable
Deprived or dull
With such a childhood
So active and full.
Dennis the Menace Desperate Dan
Biffo,  Ace Detective Harris Tweed 
From the Eagle Dandy and Beano
All those comics we used to read

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Speaks Volumes November 24, 2022 at 10:21 PM I remember the Goon show, the little Rascals and Yes What and Pick a box were Aussie programs on the radio. We would huddle around to listen to each show. Such great fun anticipating the start of each show, a pleasure kids of today will really never know. Thanks Terry the memories this evoked were precious. Terry Ireland November 25, 2022 at 2:22 AM I think the best way to watch a play is on the radio. You ca. be warm and cosy in your own world.

Ilene Bauer November 24, 2022 at 6:32 AM a wonderful tribute to those sweet and simpler times, terry! Terry Ireland November 25, 2022 at 2:23 AM Thanks Ilene - in some ways they were good old days