Marie Marshall
\nby cricketjeff on March 7, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nShe’s the only Scottish rhymer who could quote a Latin primer
\nAs she penned a Sapphic ode about a beach
\nShe can write about a crime, a heroine, or an old timer
\nWith vocabulary not quite out of reach<\/p>\n
If she writes about a bleater or a man with a repeater
\nYou will surely get a story worth the read
\nIf in contests you should beat her then her language won’t get sweeter
\nAnd she’ll find obscure amendments she can plead<\/p>\n
But as Sister I still love her there are none who sit above her
\nIn the lists of poets writing on AP
\nEvery time she calls me bruvver I am forced to rediscover
\nThere are reasons I defer to such as she<\/p>\n
And she’s never too annoying and her love songs are not cloying
\nWhile she likes to tell it straight in her critiques
\nSo I grin when she starts toying with her tones of “little boying”
\nBut I always pay attention when she speaks [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/
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Author notes
\nFor no particular reason except encouraging people to go and read her here. Oh
\n“she” is Mairi bheag of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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