BREATHLESS (IP)

My mouth goes dry
I feel shocking
like a jelly on a plate
the body is wibble wobbling

My memory goes
feeding a lot into it
two pairs of glasses
one has to change over

In a church choir once
hit a high note
my bra goes ping

Many prayers
and worshipping

Microphones as if on stage
Alto contralto soprano bass
I'd give a tenor to hide my face

Yes!
I have done many things now
after many years tongue-tied
I would also ring a number
to join or do something

All I could start was
ah! umm
but I would get in

A friend now in a nursing home
we went to day centres
and music groups

All files and categories of songs
another place a teacher or who
have boxes instruments to use

Tambourines a rainmaker
clip-clop sounds
like horses hoofs
triangles to ding

We all stood up
acting like chimps
making noises
to increase our
breathing

Then my friend
with a kind of
Frank Sinatra voice
would say

"Think of people
like rows of cabbages
that helps"

I was breathless
before all this
16 years of my life

On therapies
surgery
no cure
and many other things

So when on stage
the light's be dipped
now I just have a try

I had no "Hope In That Strange Corner"
is the Title of Tony's story
that is brilliant
do read

Then a friend in our other groups
we both went in for
my goodness
depleted me

When I saw her there
hardly spoke to me
I wasn't sure well
enough to go

I only practiced once
pain in the chest
cold night air

So three of us came
in from shopping there
and got a cup of tea

I saw them all in back room
so I drank a cold drink
someone topped it up with ice
doubled up before I went on

The track played so loud
I came in at wrong time
then I read the poem of
"Green Eyes" from a sheet

Then mean't walk over meet
the judges comment on all
but my mic was blinking stuck

Said the three judges
lovely voice
and you hit those top notes
but you are so nervous

A friend previous kept phoning
ranting on and on
three days here
took all the stuffing
out of me

Can't do this
and can't do that
she wasn't in charge of it
no you can't do poetry

Silver-Spun-Sand
let me once
kindly read one her
poems

I felt so calm
as it was beautifully done

I am truly amazed
what I have achieved
even tried
"Memory" from Cats"

But instrumental
part is not for me

Breathe relax
as been taught
many other things
I can't mention

but AbcTales
are the tops
I start saying
A-E-I-O-U

I am a bit of
a Mad Hatter
like to wear
a tea pot hat
like Lady Gaga's

The pen stops
and won't write
I scribble hard
but it's the
empty fluid inside

Yes,
I too stuttered
when a child nerves
many years back

Then something happened
ghastly for years
couldn't do anything

Or move much sometimes
I couldn't speak at all

It was "The King's Speech"
by Colin Firth"film
made me do all this

all comments and ideas please.
is this better now added to it
After got the cherry!