Margaret Kollmer Poems

These are what are known as Tom Swifties.....

'It's YOUR turn to score the ham, ' Stella said cuttingly.
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Here’s a terrific game, testing your ingenuity with words:

You have to make up a story using consecutive letters of the Qwerty keyboard.
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I am happy to count among my friends a very dear lady who is in a constant state of awareness of the angels of this world and the next. She does very dear things; like helping people in many ways; even those who ask for a sign that their loved ones are watching over them.

So, one day, although I didn’t want to bother her who, true to say, I then knew only as a friend of a friend, I decided to have a word with her. I felt I had been alone long enough and really needed to know that my late and dearly beloved had not forgotten me altogether since his departure from this world some 21 years ago. Since everything in life appears to have some significance or synchronicity, I decided that 21 was probably the key to the other world, which allowed me to feel tempted enough to do whatever necessary to peek behind that door. Just to check him out, like, as they say.
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Billy and Belinda
Were eating sauerkraut
When Billy tried to kiss her
His eye popped out!
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Grace Before Meals
(as sometimes said in our Catholic home!)
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Christmas in Africa
under a Southern sky
On an evening warm
we all recall
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Your Valentine, my Grandma said, will be one who loves you true
He'll cook and clean and wash your smalls and not forget the blue.
Adored you'll be, my angel child, from morning until noon
He'll tease and tickle and paddle you, with love and an ice cream spoon.
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Embrace harmony between lovers
Hold Cupid's rose in fragrant charm.
Glowing flame, dancing sky
Rhythm of the night, celestial spark.
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Breathing deeply
the night hours pass
until snug in the ageing palm
of dawn
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'Forsooth! ' cried our Romeo, 'a bedpan!
Juliet has been poisoned, hurry up man! '
Said her nurse baking bread: 'Me feet be like lead'
But with deadpan took breadpan for bedpan.
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