13. Entry from Kerry Nicholls
A Valentine’s poetry competition for lovers of history
A Murder Mystery Valentine
Agatha! Consummate monarch of crime
Conned your hemlock, cyanide and strychnine
In a terrible war, where poisons galore
Became grist for the mill of your mind.
Your Valentine is a cat-and-mouse game
Involving murder and blackmail and maim
You came to this set via sisterly bet
Birthed a Belgian detective of fame.
To your grand oeuvre you added a Miss
Who Marples murders with prim steely bliss
The twists and the turns as plot simmers and burns
Weaves them into a clandestine kiss.
A smoking gun triggered sudden disgrace
Errant spouse caught in a sordid embrace
You practised no arts with a blowpipe and darts
Just stole off with no clues and no trace.
Starting fresh as a trench digger’s wife
Cracked the clues to the joint venture of life
You settled in Devon, a scribbler’s heaven
Dame Commander whose pen is a knife!
Kerry Nicholls
We were delighted to receive so many entries to this competition. We asked for a Valentine’s Day Poem with rhyming couplets written for any figure from history.
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The winner will be announced on St Valentine’s Day and will received a framed copy of their poem.