We don’t know if she’s going to turn up, but here in the Window Dressers Arms Pig and Whistle (affectionately known as the Pig’s Arms) this evening Australia’s Poet Laureate is handing over the baggy green to VoR of the ABC Unleashed website for a magnificent limerick in the article “Howzzat!” http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/.

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Australia’s Poet Laureate recognised that the competition put forward by VoR in the cricketing limerick field was beyond her own capacity, and seizes This Day to graciously recognize these achievements, bending her knee.

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So without further ado, we invite Australia’s Poet Laureate to take the fruit box and charm us one last time.

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Thank you. Thank you.

Poems are big

Poems are small

Poems can be any size at all.

Baggy greens can be big

Baggy greens can be small

Baggy greens can be any size at all.

But limericks aren’t big

Limericks aren’t small

Limericks can’t be any size at all.

Limericks have to be just right.

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And so for the best just right limerick, give a round of applause to VoR!

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Not here yet?  Glenda must be running behind.  Well, in case she doesn’t get here we’re going to keep drawing the raffle tickets upon which you’ve all scribbled down poems until we find an alternate winner.

Has anyone got the hat?