Margaret Kollmer Poems

In Mexico they're rude and call us names
They will not let us join Olympic games
They think they've got us by the neck
but do we worry wot the heck
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Get out of the house, they said, they said
Get out of the house … take up bowls.
So fratefully social, they said, they said
There’s no finer game than bowls.
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SHE: I find you make me ill at ease
Your temper is explosive;
You’re gruff and rude and frankly
Your sarcasm is corrosive.
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Beast of the night turn me around
Show me your world so I’ll know…
How to respond to the game you have planned
Touching me, teaching me, reaching me.. and….
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Ma voisine, qui habite à numero onze, a gauche de mon appartement, est une dame trop, trop bizarre. Elle a fait les grand efforts de nous au Jardins Howick de rire et rire. Peut-etre nous sommes quelque temps une petite injuste, mais c’est la vie. Certainment, nos voisine s’appelle est Marie, mais pas de Marie Antoinette!

Ne quelqu’un pas comprends pourquoi Marie si trop changer, depuis son cinquieteme ans. Quelque temps, Marie, elle, ‘performe’ une chose de trop drole……ou bien une chose de trop triste. Dependre de vous l’etrange dame etre son amie…… ou son ennemie!
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A Saucy Nando's Poem - Poetry Competition

Now lissen, Vrou, said my Ou, the day that we was wed
Don’t gimme no, none ‘arf-baked food,
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Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika
Maluphakanyisw’uphondo lwayo
Yizwa imithandazo yethu
Nkosi sikelela,
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Sung to the tune of Evita:

It won’t be …easy….you’ll think it strange
When I try to explain… how I felt
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God
When along came Noddy and with him Mr Plod.
Together they said: ‘Let’s make a brand-new world’
And as they spoke the sky lit up; the earth unfurled.
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Shosholoza
Kulezontaba
Stimela sibuya e South Africa
Shosholoza
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