<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552206" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Farewell Blythe Spirit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This poem is dedicated to James Clarke, South Africa's funniest columnist on his semi-retirement from The Star with my gratitude for allowing me to contribute so much of my nonsense verse to his Stoep Talk column for so many years. The practice of writing Mary Mary verses and parodies and all sorts of 'pomes' as he calls them was invaluable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm devastated - quite deflated<br>To know you are retiring<br>(I'd call you cool and not x-rated<br>but no, not quite retiring!) <br>What will I do, my heart screams out<br>With all my bits of writing? <br>The mini-comps, the tests of skill<br>That set my wits a-fighting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've got to know you pretty well<br>Sometimes I've even bitten<br>Your leg pulls and your jammy jibes<br>Ho! What I've almost written! <br>Important comps I've entered<br>Qwerty soup, perhaps a pun<br>And how to welcome tourists<br>Saying 'Voetsak' watch 'em run! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of Shakespeare, dare I say it<br>I hardly knew a jot<br>Till in a comp I learned his wife<br>Was Anne and not Shalott.<br>A one-word sentence - pshew! he's mad! <br>The challenge was too great<br>I M N MK... R U 1 2? <br>And Mary's lamb got ate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no, M.K. don't flippant be<br>This is a serious occasion<br>For sure you'll make the Beckett Show<br>On the state of the writing nation.<br>I know I speak for all who read<br>The Stoep - Oh how we'll miss ya<br>And now it has to come to me<br>What rhymes with Madagascya!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Kollmer">Margaret Kollmer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552206" data-title="Farewell Blythe Spirit de Margaret Kollmer" data-description="This poem is dedicated to James Clarke, South Africa's funniest columnist on his semi-retirement from The Star with my gratitude for allowing me to contribute so much of my nonsense verse to his Stoep Talk column for so many years. The practice of..."></div> </div> </div>

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