In today’s Style Invitational, entrants were asked to write poems about people who passed on in the last year.
At 105, old Madame Chiang
At last met her mortality,
That’s got to be a record for
A Taipei personality.
(Dave Zarrow, Herndon)
Sen. Strom Thurmond:
You preached the “Southern way of life”
In various high places.
(But on occasion, you’d condone
Some mixing of the races.)
(Jerry Norris, New Bern, N.C.)
“The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” survived
While Hope Lange held our hearts;
If e’er the show should be revived,
She now could play both parts.
(Bob Dalton, Arlington; Mike Connaghan, Alexandria)
Let’s celebrate here the best thing achieved
By a crooner who passed in the night,
And reflect on the millions of children conceived
To the voice of the great Barry White.
(Chris Doyle, Forsyth, Mo.)
