A Poem for Noah

My Life Saver

Clickety click, I'm sixty six, and feel I'm going crazy

Gone the free time, peace, quiet, and being lazy

Noah from Somerset has arrived, - and so far I've survived

Oodles and oodles of labradoodle

A cream pup, black nose, black eyes

Expression full of surprise

"who me - I didn't do that"

The plants in the garden lay broken and flat

Not holes, but craters he digs away

"keep gong boy - you will get to Australia one day"

Landscaping the garden is out this year

Alan Titchmarsh will just have to wait I fear

Ruby, my elderly cat goes out when Noah is in

Too much noise, activity, and din

So prefers to eat, sleep and be brushed upstairs

"will he ever grow up, she thinks in despair"

The man in the 'offie' is on to a winner

"hello more wine again, are you getting thinner?"

Seriously Noah is (almost) heaven

Clickety click, next year

Will I reach sixty seven

Barbara Rayment, August 2006