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The Day Eight prompt at NaPoWroMo.net was to write a nursery rhyme. 4 to 6 lines, 3-5 accented syllables per line (don’t worry about making them iambs or dactyls or what…as long as your lines are short), and of course, a rhyme or two.
Here's my attempt:
COLONEL GADAFFI
Colonel Gadaffi had the will
to slaughter his own people
he drove a tank to knock them down
and tied them to a steeple
12042011
And here's one that I wrote for my son Jack about seventeen years ago:
LITTLE JACK BATTY.
Little Jack Batty
Sat on a tatty
Eating his Ploughman's Lunch
His breakfast all done,
And his dinner to come
And said, 'What a nice bit of brunch!'
Previously published in Proper Trog and other Nursery Nonsense...
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You probably could have written the first 17 years ago too... what goes round...
ReplyDeleteI love modern nursery rhymes: intellible to us but in 100 years people will be puzzling over them just like we puzzle over Jack Sprat etc.
ReplyDeleteRight in the spirit of traditional nursery rhymes, shocking now but in a hundred years?
ReplyDeleteI agree that both pieces are timeless. Both are well written, too! The things we do in the name of one god or another...sheesh!
ReplyDeleteLike both of these, the first for its in your face honesty, the second for the warmth and care that shines through it,
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Andy, the first is a hard smack of reality and the second is a sweet poem. Well done.
ReplyDeletePamela
certainly had that nursery rhyme feel to it and the one for your son has a good rhythm to it as well!
ReplyDeleteYou're good with nursery rhymes. Lucky son to have you write for him. Every dad should do that!
ReplyDeleteAndy, the first is for all the leaders of the world when they decide to read history and stop repeating it. The second, a sweet one. Wish my 22-yr-old was here and 6 so I could read it to her! Nice takes, both; loved the diversity.
ReplyDeleteAmy
http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/maybe-now-pa-npwm-11/
Fun! One of these days I'll have to attempt some nursery rhymes. :)
ReplyDeleteI have no idea where these prompts are coming from... but your nursery rhymes both political and personal have given me a smile that I'm now taking out to dinner :)
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