Where do I start Mary Owens

Where do I start

Memories, many deep,

precious in my heart

St James Youth group 

I was young, 14

inspired by you

Mary Owens the Inspiration

Into politics, community and hope,

Playschemes and campaigns

Art in Action

Bootle Fed, SCRAP, one and two,

Church Street

Maritime City Challenge

Learning to think, values and being true

I grew up changing the world with you

So, where do I start Mary Owens, where do I start

The Peoples March for Jobs

Greenham Common

Kids against Thatcher

Christmas Day dinners for all in the Irlam

Mrs Stenson cooking the Roasties over the road

When our little stove went into overload

Day trips to Chester zoo

Camping Formby Hall

The GDR, Ireland

America too 

The little Merton Good Friday

Brendan on guitar, Irish rebel songs 

and whiskey in our Jar

songs like “little things mean a lot”

your Mum, never forgot

Marsh Lane girls

and Kevin Barry, 

and history

our oral history

Mary Owens the storyteller

In yours on a Sunday afternoon

With Streisand, the Beatles and hope

Meals out in the American Dream

Demos at the town hall

Watching the mighty fall

Wadham Road

Meetings, passion, love, 

You gave it to us all Mary Owens

The Just

Serving 

Special one

Who never stopping giving

Lives touched

To make them worth living

Stories told

To help us smile through

compassion in abundance

and Everton Blue

Mary Owens the Legend that is you

Mary Owens 

For the Many not the Few

SR 20th December 2019