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bright and cheerful
miss poppins
is portrayed
chim chim cheree
chim chiminey
la di da da
technicolour version
brought big bucks
disney
paid tribute to her
truth lay dark
hidden in the tall grass
of sad secrets
in a bleak
Queensland country town
myth laden and odd
was our penitent miss prim
escaped to ole blighty
to find fame and fortune
heart shattered
by her irish poet
feckless charming
skirt chaser
ditched her to marry
third time to a teenager
poor poppins found fortune
never found love
adopted an irish baby
leaving its twin
behind like a
pet at the pound
on the advice
of her crackpot astrologer
eeny meeny miney mo
catch...
oh... the youngest
wins the prize
name him camillus
sounds god- like
don't you think
having seen him interviewed
believe me ,he is anything but...
quite a tale!
ReplyDeleteRemarkable story. Never heard that one before.
ReplyDeletehow sad.
ReplyDeletegreat words!
ReplyDeleteleaving its twin behind like a pet at a pond...that is rather sad...and people are not always who they are made out to be..eh?
ReplyDeleteMy goodness..now i'm going to have to investigate miss p..she scared me..and those penguins and Dick Van Dyke..another reason why I'm screwy no doubt!
ReplyDeleteYep..I'd blame Mary Poppins and Lewis Carrol ( giggles!)
DeleteI used to read the book as a kid. It's darker then the film but not like this. I like this, though. Your story telling and keeping in verse, the rhythm and flow of it, tripping one line to the next, easy to keep on reading. Thanks, I enjoyed reading.
ReplyDeleteAnyone can look good with a great publicist. We are all human so we will all have a dark side. However it was great to be carried away by your dark umbrella prose.
ReplyDelete" dark umbrella prose"..lovely and very poetic phrase!I see the reluctant poet emerging:)
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