Vale Queen Elizabeth Ii 1926-2022 Poem by Paul Warren

Standing for hours on the Port Road
With classmates I was only 8 years old
Waiting excitedly for the Queen
A Rolls Royce passes and the Queen is just barely seen

Then as a police officer in the crowd
On the Town Hall she waved with the crowd loud
These were all memories of Queen Elizabeth
Our monarch of 70 years reigning in a long stretch

There were times to test her
Princess Diana dying and Prince Andrew issues did occur
Prince Harry and Meghan leaving
All culminating in the passing of Prince Phillip in grieving

We have lived in the second Elizabethan age
Now ending in the final service she gave
For she served her people to the last
And our flags are all at half mast

She is for the ages now remembered by all.

© Paul Warren Poetry