Pam Ayres

A marvellous woman so witty and bright And her whimsical verses are born of delight And with the finest of poets she is one who can rate And Pam Ayres is a name that we must celebrate. And though some literary critics they do not rate her high They cannot down grade her though hard they do try And they failed to stop Pam in her rise to renown It's so true a great talent cannot be kept down. Her beautiful smile adorns her pretty face And her infectious humour not hard to embrace With immortal humourists like Lear and Belloc she is one who compare And people like her sad to say seem so rare. In years she is one who is beyond her prime But she remains the queen of the humorists of rhyme She is one who was born with the great gift of song And if you cannot find a laugh in her verses with you something wrong. Whenever I feel down and burdened by cares I open a book of the poems of Pam Ayres And she brings some happiness into my day For she has me laughing my worries away.