A schoolchild’s quick and clever excuse to escape punishment
Please sir, you gave us all such pleasure
When you taught us Davies’ ‘Leisure’,
Words, for me, that brought to light
Dreams ‘full of stars like skies at night’.
Those rhyming couplets thrilled me so
I felt compelled to have a go.
You’d left the room and, fired anew,
I wrote a couplet, sir, for you.
It’s on the board, as you can see,
A tribute, sir, to you from me,
A ‘thank-you’ poem to a friend
That’s not intended to offend.
The end-rhyme, written on a whim,
Is meant to be an acronym:
By ‘sir’s a DICK,’ I had in mind,
Deft, Inspiring, Clever, Kind!
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