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Competition | 6 November 2010

Lucy Vickery presents this week's competition

issue 06 November 2010

In Competition No. 2671 you were invited to submit a poem in which the rhymed ending of each line is a truncated word.

This challenge invites you to follow in the footsteps of that master of light verse and lover of word-play Harry Graham, who, in his poem ‘Poetical Economy’, ‘found a simple plan/ Which makes the lamest lyric scan!’:

When I’ve a syllable de trop,
I cut it off, without apol.:
This verbal sacrifice, I know,
May irritate the schol.;
But all must praise my dev’lish cunn.
Who realise that Time is Mon.




Honourable mentions to Jane Dards, Mae Scanlan, Paul Griffin and D.A. Prince, who were unlucky losers. The prizewinners, printed below, get a well-deserved £25 each while the bonus fiver belongs to Basil Ransome-Davies.

One lunchtime, over port and Stilt,
I incidentally thought of Milt,
Of whom the eminent Sam John
Observed ‘his power is to aston’,
While giving him a hearty drub
For being such a staunch repub,
The blind bard later roused to ang —
For ‘doing damage to the lang’ —
The esoteric T.S.







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