Trooping the Colour

Freeverse (the UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022)

You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic.

Were we not friends when we were schoolboys?

You look so smart now, Dominic, guardsman,

wrapped in the shining redness of that costume

under your tall, beautiful bearskin cap.

Recall that friendship, Dominic,

those distant days at school?

I saw your show on stage -

those school plays, musicals, but mainly ballet.

Such standards, almost worthy of a jubilee.

And here you are on our TV.

A performance, Dominic, seen by our Queen,

and millions, oh millions, of viewers.

You're at that Platinum Jubilee,

a concert full of marching men,

a march that is a parade,

a parade that is a ballet -

performing people, of course.

Would you wish to know me, Dominic,

now you're in your very posh world?

(June 2022)

(You may wish to see also "Obsequies for a Queen" of September 2022 and "Coronation for a King" of May 2003)