I'm hoping to be teacher's pet
By reciting my alphabet
My teacher said to me,
"Jimmy you missed out P"
I'm crying and very upset!
My teacher, her name is Miss Clegg
Said Jimmy, "Tell me, I won't beg"
Where is the missing P
I said, "Miss, can't you see
It's running down my trouser leg!"
Categories:
clegg, child, humorous,
Form: Limerick
In loving memory of our Mark,
Better known to most as Skip,
Reunited with Clegg up in paradise now,
Best friends back joined at the hip.
From thrashing about on his motorbikes,
Revving the **** out them in crickmere park,
To his mams house bouncing with hardcore,
As skip raved away to M.C's and afterdark.
He absolutely loved to spend time with family,
Travelling to raves and cutting shapes on the dance floor,
In fact if he was made to choose just one,
Wouldn't be sure what he said he loved more.
All the stories that so many have to share,
In the days ahead filled with both joy and pain,
Means his legacy shall forever live on,
Precious memories will always remain.
We feel you all around us buoy,
Your spirit will never ever be gone,
You never could call it a night,
May your soul forever rave on.
Categories:
clegg, friendship, in memoriam, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Some days we go there to beg:
Ten kilometers for each leg.
We aren’t greedy as we beg:
Never asked Givers for egg!
This week we’ll be there to beg,
Our backs to their palm wine keg:
A chance to drink spare not dreg;
It makes one laugh at us: Greg!
Our smartest beggar: Mark Clegg:
For now to it does hopes peg;
Whatever he gets he holds:
The costly with left palm folds…
He knows, though, he’s getting old
And says “I need not be told.”
Categories:
clegg, absence, change, cry, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Mag's lover hasn't been seen since.
Mag does nothing but in pain wince.
Her tall Greg was her world,her Prince.
"Once dead Forget A Come-Back means! "
Hoe was popularly Greg's foe;
Thus,his dad's farm refused to grow.
A lot Greg had slept on a mat
And guessed not he'd be adding fat.
Off he had to go for slimming
And with Kung Fu started trimming.
Mag had heard of karate king clegg!
"What could he not do to a leg?
Keeps breaking it as voices beg,
Unless he's served wine: A full keg
The purest tap relieved not of dreg"
"Clegg must've finished the legs of Greg!"
Categories:
clegg, bullying, fear, sports, violence,
Form: Rhyme
It’s A Stitch Up
I struck a match and the gas cooker did me
So a chap called Sidney gave me a kidney
I didn’t steal it and I didn’t beg
But a fellow called Clegg gave me a leg
My best mate Paul gave his left eyeball
But my uncle Jock gave nothing at all
Thanks to Steve there’s an arm up my sleeve
And the fact I can breath is hard to believe
But the praises I’ve sung cos Burt gave me a lung
Fall short of Fred Young who made me well hung
And so I thank Fred for my prowess in bed
But if it wasn’t for Ted, I’d still have no head
When I walk again I hope I will meet
The geezer next door who gave me his feet
Nobody knows who gave me my nose
But a guy up my street gave me all of his toes
Old Bobby Tutt gave me his gut
The rider from Pizza Hut gave me his butt
But how can I ever thank young Tommy Green
Who gave me his heart and his liver and spleen
But it seems all those people I never shall greet
For when the gas blew, it blew up the street.
Categories:
clegg, humorous, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Stephen is Libby Clegg’s younger brother,
Their other brother is James - all 3 at Rio,
Because they all have Stargardt’s Disease,
A deteriorating eye condition that's genetic.
Their mother is Moira who lives in Dumfries,
So they all know the top Royal Blind School,
Which is in Edinburgh and teaches the skills,
Of ironing, washing clothes for their life fine.
Both boys attended a mainstream primary,
But there they did not encourage the talent,
That that they both exposed at swimming,
So the Blind School gave them time, effort.
Stephen was born 23rd November in 1995,
And swims freestyle in the category of S13:
At the Europeans in Portugal’s city Funchal,
He made three finals, set a PB in the 400m.
Categories:
clegg, sports, strength,
Form: Blank verse
Libby was 1990 born in Bollington in Cheshire,
But when she was older, eleven years of age,
She moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to admire,
The Royal Blind School which she did stage.
She’s a sprinter competing in the 100m and 200,
But she trained and competed in normal events,
Whilst participating in Junior Blind Sport, bred,
And her brother was at pool 2012 S12 events.
At the 2006 Worlds she won a silver in the 200,
In the T12, and then in Athens she won another,
Then in January in 2011 at the IPC Worlds said,
She won a bronze in the 200m, a major runner.
In June 2012 at the European Championships,
She won both the 100 and 200m, and London
Saw her win silver in the T12 100m to eclipse,
Where her and her guide Mikail Huggins did gun.
At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow city,
The pair ran the 100m in 12.20 seconds flat,
But then she had to get a new guide for her agility,
Chris Clarke who will do her proud in the dart.
Libby won the Para Athlete of the Year, October,
In the year 2012 at the Scottishathletics awards,
And then won it again the next year: David Wier
Presented her with her award to cheer in chords.
Categories:
clegg, body, health, race, sports,
Form: Quatrain
An
ichthys
in marble-
a code sign of
faith
Inspired by the 'fiddle fish' made by John Clegg from his mother's marble washstand -Seen
at Kettles Yard
Categories:
clegg, faith
Form: Lanterne