BARD SPAR

[Glenny Palmer]

Some time last century...in a previous life...we took our caravan with 'The Wandering Wordsmith' written all over it, to Winton. We were visited by the only human on the planet who can out talk me, & after a 2 day talkathon that my then hubby Al, refereed, I penned....

BARD SPAR

© 2001 Glenny Palmer

I never thought I’d see it, thought the day would never come,
when someone matched me word for word, ‘tsenough to strike me dumb.
Dressed in stripey braces and in training I could see
he’d make me call on all my wits and speech ability.

He threw a verb, I ducked & weaved, I hit him with a noun;
he uttered two profanities and tumbled to the ground.
He grabbed me by the ankle with a clever preposition,
I landed flat on top of him, we strained in opposition.

He got up with a paragraph, I scarce believed my ears,
and then he paused to take a breath, the first he’d had in years.
And then he split infinitive, it threw me for a six,
I got a whole darned sentence in, that put him in a fix.

This fight was getting nasty but we had a referee,
good old Al sat patiently, ten times he said, ‘scuse me.’
It didn’t do him any good, he fainted in the end
from looking left & right too fast at me and then my friend.

The second day we faded, started using euphemisms,
we’d used up all the adjectives and took to altruisms.
Al recovered, took a breath and screamed, ‘Odds on I’ll lay ‘em,
give up the fight now Glenny, you’ve been beat…by Geoffrey Graham!’

[Neville Briggs]

What a man

[Bob Pacey]

Was it held under water Glenny ? I reckon you would have got him then !!!!!


Bob

[Irene]

Hey Gloenny
I believe Geoffrey Graham is coming over to Boyup Brook later this year - I will have to make sure I get down there and see just how good he is at talking!!!

Catchya
IRene

[Glenny Palmer]

You cheeky blighter Bob....actually no, that wouldn't have worked...cause I had no hay.

(Our great mate Johnny Philipson, God rest his hilarious soul, happily informed a full house one night that...'she could talk under water with a gob full of hay.' It was back in a previous life & all it really was, was being over vivacious. One gets rather over excited when they find a bunch of like minded nut cases. Much better than in the ward.)

[Glenny Palmer]

G'daaay IRene. You lucky buggers. Geoffrey is a very brilliant man & you lot are in for a major treat. Tell him G'day from me will you...or write it on a slip of paper & glue it to his shirt...just in case he doesn't take a breath...

Cheeers
Glenny

[Vic Jefferies]

Irene you are in for a treat with Geoffrey Walker Graham! He is an outstanding showman and wonderful presenter of poetry. On of the best in the country in my humble opinion and a great bloke with it. Absolutely devoted to his craft and can hilarious or intently serious. Say hello for me when you see him!