In Competition No. 3226, you were invited to rewrite, in pompous and prolix style, any well-known simple poem.
The seed for this pleasingly popular challenge was a recasting of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’, attributed to John Raymond Carson, which begins: ‘Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific…’ Star performers, in a most excellent and enjoyable entry, include AdrianFry’s Larkin:
Jointly and severally, your begetters rudely discombobulate your psycho-social equilibrium.Though an unintentional by-product of their actions, it is nevertheless so…
And Janine Beacham’s Williams:
I have succumbed to those purple-sheened orbs, Pomona’s amethyst treats…
Iain Morley and John MacRitchie also shone, but the winners, below, net £25 each.
Oh scintillate, bright orb celestial! Gleam, Alpha Centauri C, petite red dwarf! Light up our firmament, refracted beam; Pulsate till perihelion makes thee morph. Hail! Hydrogen and helium art thou? An astronomic marvel to mine eyes, Coruscating far beyond the Plough, Eternal fulguration of the skies. Nuclear
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