An ‘Ode to Spring’ Nespresso competition winners
We were hard pressed to pick, with talent so great, but a lime yellow Inissia lay in the wait. It was Lara Stavridis, and her way with words, whose ditty read as more than a song to the birds.
Well done to all, for your words and your wit. Read the winning poems here, and relax for a bit.
The overall winning poem from Lara Stavridis
Lara you win the lime yellow Nespresso Inissia with Aerocino and pods included. Hooray for you!
(To the tune of “My favourite things” from the Sound of Music)
Sunshine on fynbos and blossoms a-blooming
Tanning on beaches and holidays looming
Yuppichef packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favourite things
Walking up mountains and drinking some coffee
Watching the sunset and bird chirping softly
Frosty Cape winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favourite things
When the skin burns
When the heat stings
When pollen make me sad
I simply remember my favourite Spring-things
And then I don’t feel so bad!
A few of our other favourites
You really outdid yourselves this time, and we loved it. And since there’s only one Inissia for us to give away, but so many deserving poets, we thought we’d send a couple of R250 vouchers to these five runners up.
Oh spring, you wily and unpredictable fellow,
Shades of pink and green, and don’t forget yellow.
Your temperamental weather has me all in a fluster,
A hot cup of coffee, after a fresh bowl of pasta.
A salad, some ice cream, a crusty loaf of bread,
Sunshine and happiness, or rainy days instead.
Spring, you’re just dandy, you’re the right kind of hot,
Spring, I might love you, I might love you a lot.
– Jessica Franks
Spring has sprung. Hayfever has hit
Frankly I’m quite over this sh**
Dawn comes too early
Birds wake the kids
At the ungodly hour of a quarter to six
The sun sets much later
And the kids think its cool
To stay up past bed time to splash in the pool
Mom is exhausted
You can clearly see
The only thing keeping me going is coffee
– Beth Rosen-Gouws
Spring is lovely and balmy, it’s fair and it’s fine
But on this occasion, permit me to whine
It’s well and good but do remember
That I start sneezing on the 1st of September.
The sight of spring flowers make me go a shade paler
Tonight I have a date with my asthma inhaler
It’s gorgeous outside but I must refrain
From the jasmine and mowed lawns that cause me such pain
I wheeze, I sneeze, I sputter and mutter,
“If it’s not winter soon, I will become a real nutter!”
Allergies and hayfever keep me from dining al fresco
But it wouldn’t be so bad if I had Nespresso.
– Estelle Nagel
It’s the fragrance and air that get to you first
Then the light that seeps in, quenching the thirst
of darkness that has parched your lips for so long
which has now been replaced by birds and their song
by blossoms on trees and tops without sleeves.
It’s spring.
It’s the veil of summer, heightening her beauty
It’s the promise of sunshine accepting his duty
to replace the scarves, dead leaves and wool
for sipping iced coffee with our toes in the pool
with ice cream and cherries and frozen mixed berries.
It’s spring.
So as she starts us on new beginnings,
And maybe even the possibility of winning
a Nespresso Inissia in my favourite shade
remember to stop and enjoy the parade
That is Spring!
– Stephanie Comninos
I wish i was a Yuppiechef with flowers in my hair,
Cooking between daisies, with a coffee mug in the air.
I want to fly like Superman, floating in the breeze,
Looking down on spring blossoms, growing in the trees
I need to wake up in the mornings, with a ‘spring’ in my step,
Catching dewdrops like Spiderman, on a newly thrown web.
Without my daily coffee, I will be sad and sobbing,
‘Cause who can imagine, Batman without his Robin?
I want to win, a Nespresso machine,
So that I don’t only have to dream,
About above mentioned scene
In my beautiful garden green.
– Bianca van Antwerpen
I love you, favourite season, like a bee loves the blomme
Like a grammar nazi loves to fix apostrophe and comma,
Like the Namaqualand daisy loves to pop up there by Klawer
Like Steve Hofmeyer loves to make a moerse big palawer.
You’re much better than the winter, and the summer’s far too hot,
And the autumn’s kind of stormy and it starts to rain a lot,
But you’re pretty and you’re sunny and you make my heart go ping,
You’re my favourite, you’re my besty, you’re my BFF, you’re SPRING.
– Helen Brain
If you want to see more entries, visit this Facebook post. And the winners and runners up should email [email protected] to claim their prizes. Thanks for getting involved, folks.