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Congratulations To Amy Schneider

Congratulations to Amy Schneider
Who is Jeopardy’s 2022 champion
And to those who stood beside her,
Congratulations to Amy Schneider
Let’s all toast with a cup of hot cider
She’d know the meaning of campion,
Congratulations to Amy Schneider
Who is Jeopardy’s 2022 champion! 

Written November 22, 2022

Clerihew Campion

Engish poet Thomas Campion
read verse to his son
Cherry-ripe hid famed lyric
a poem so euphonic

The Hedge

The hedge sat quietly on the side street while people passed by on their daily chores
She bathed in spring and summer so sweet as red roses and campion grew by her side watching and listening while family's grew and died
Meandering colours of Persian jewels daisy's and buttercups she shelters sunflowers reach the sky protected from the northern bluster
Sometimes she would get a trim to her sides
As she grew even higher birds made nests or sometimes stop to rest or hide from the sparrow hawk
She would listen to children play and adults talk
Wondering what life would be like to live this way
And when you pass by take a thought for the hedge stands today like her brothers and sisters throughout the globe
And even in the cold of winter refuge can be found
In the hedge

Wishing Willows

I knew a place down by the brook 
where, in the breeze, the willows shook
and wary hare's in summers haze
would leap and sport among the maize,
startling pheasants into flight
who'd hurdle hedgerows burning bright
with campion and bramble wild
reminding me that when a child
I'd pick their fruit, me and my brother,
and take them home to our dear mother
who'd make a pie with pastry rich
in butter with eggs and sugar, which
we'd stuff our faces with ‘til replete,
what I'd give once more to meet 
in that place down by the brook
where, in the breeze, the willows shook.

Morning Glory

As dawn undressed the night,
putting the purples of sorrow to flight.
It started to paint an horizon new,
in burnished golds of every hue,
that streaked the heavens and edged each cloud
with fire that danced and billowed proud.
Heralding a bright new day 
that blew the sullen nights cobwebs away
and lasered light into Earths dark corners,
to gladden the hearts of cynics and mourners.
And Oxeye daisies raised their heads,
whilst sweet campion and larkspur stirred in their beds
and drank the dew the night had bestowed,
as field and meadow softly glowed
in that tranquil, thankful morning light,
that broke each day and banished the night.

Thomas Campion Translation: Novelties

NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.

Original Latin text:

IN LIBRARIOS

Impressionum plurium librum laudat
Librarius; scortum nec non minus leno.

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Machair

Again the machair blooms. Again these wild
Atlantic shorelines, battered but unbowed
as the marram grass, survive the wayward
blasts of winter, the silver sands endowed
with dancing colour, greeting the splendour 
of the budding year. A close bound repertoire 
of nodding harebells, celandines and thrift,
clover, thyme and tiny eyebright, near and far,
a sweeping backdrop to the wave-washed shore.
Sea campion, marigold and silverweed,
majestic iris, buttercup and mayweed,
bashful wild orchids, and a myriad more,
each in their order pays homage to the sun.
Bedazzling the eye, High Summer has begun.

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Hizzia Handfull  wrestled  Diffa Dank Hassinberg
to a twenty minute draw

Muchabout Nothing and Hussylover defeated
Brimms Doltrium and Moondog Melgriff Mange
in a two out of three fall match (taking two falls
 for the win.

Jafney " Attaboy " Sayer figurefoured Gamey Almost
to capture the vacant North of South
Title, using a middleground fall-away to score
the pin.
Baknocca " slick Willy" Hosscaul was Disqualified 
against Steep Depper, he throw the referee over

MiSong and Clepper Claff del Grecko defeated
Sifftin Saddle and " Bigside" Daryle Dopple
when Claff DDT'd Grecko for the winfall.

main Event

World Campion
" My Wifes Manfreind" Bulky Bannerdaff out wrested
 " The Golden American" Beefy Hambone
to retain his world tilte.
( used a bassoon to knock his opponet sensless, to
score the pin)

Haikai - Haiku

the cinnabar moth
a summer diurnal one
check out the ragwort

peppermint stands
mint moths' abundant tiny
summer potatoes

a rambling rose
buds showing waiting to burst
a flowerfly drones

bees not many
some burrowers one or two
campion self-seeds

tis the morrow morn
west is the forecasted wind
southwest for the swifts

Effervescence

A rainbow of flowers adorn her hair 
cascading an effervescence 
~ 
to her being I feign 
fallen fast and drifting free 
in heartfelt fantasy 

night dawns as feeling fawns 
within the glow of the moon 

skies erupt   visions clear 
amongst the stars I swoon 
to her every hypnotic thrum 
~ 
I awake 
gentle winds blow 
red campion dance 

seas remain a rare calm 
awash in her beauty 
reflections cast the way

A Day In Arcadia

You leave the car at what was once, 
in old reality, a farm and where the
National Trust democratise so now not cows 
but parking motorists feel alarm.

Across a road are loos, ex milking parlours 
still with “stools” and piss 
as folk make moves to 

an archway leading to a long curved lane 
edged with a guard of reeds that, 
while obstructing the view ahead
incite its anticipation. 

Conducting the children, we lead them 
to where the pathway fairs into the beach 
framed by those stalks high reach 
from their rooting in Arcadia.

Some fresh reality as we quicken pace 
through that narrow place into entrancement,
a shout of elements where the claustrophobe 
of routines in small spaces erodes into the 
expansive sunbed of yielding pearl toned grains. 

Here we claim our place below a trope of 
salt drenched thrift and campion sea slopes 
barricading us from the insomnious land breeze 
that keeps conscious plain life.

Edmund Campion

In his youth he became an Anglican deacon,
but the doubts about Protestantism beset him
and after further study,
he returned to Catholicism.

Young Jesuit priest,
arrested by priest hunters
in Anglican England 
for teaching about the Christ.

He was convicted of high treason
and executed in England,
which had been  Catholic for a 1000 of years,
later religious difficulties arose.

Priest Campion said before his martyrdom:
"In condemning us, the Catholic priests,
 you condemn all your own ancestors, 
all our ancient bishops and kings…”

Summer Day Walk

Teardrops, petals, ruffles and lace,
on my summer day walk, I slow my pace.
Beautiful, yellow gossamer balls of Dandelion,
white blooms drooping on a growth of Campion.
Underneath a tree grows vivid Periwinkle and Nettle,
and beside a flowing stream is yellow and white Daffodil.
In an open meadow, I bend low to pick some wild Strawberry,
as the gentle breeze bends the Daisy, Poppy and the pink Tansy.
My hand sweeps the delicate Clover and the intricate beautiful Yarrow,
at last, turning homeward with a bouquet of blue Cornflower and Mallow.

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June 8, 2013

Poetry/Rhyme/Summer Day Walk
Copyright Protected, ID 06-484-282-08
All Rights Reserved, 2013, Constance La France

Life Since Deportation

George's isn't too bad
At least not so far
I like it here better than Campion
And it's much better by far
The only thing missing
Are the extras and the girls
Only tough ones from Alpha
Dare venture into this world
The school is also boring
Because it has no Interact
But becuase there are no girls
Starting one won't change that
I've seen Sophia once
In the back of a grey car
She's become such a skettel
Not even desperate men want her
There's this mongrel indian
Who called her a skettel bam
She says she doesn't know him
I think it was a one-night slam

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