NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Seventeen

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Seventeen

Today is Margaret Thatcher's funeral
and it was revealed during the service
at St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London
that she was part of the scientific team that
invented Mr Whippy ice cream.
My prompt for today is to write a nursery rhyme
about her. So for today only, no matter what
your political persuasion, this is just for fun.

MRS. THATCH

Grantham grocers counter slices

mixing Mr Whippy ices

A ceremonial dispatch

at Saint Paul's for Mrs Thatch

170413

Day Seventeen last year.

Finally, just for the record - Bus Degradation. 

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Thirteen

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Thirteen

PROPAGANDA

Propaganda all-out war

who can really know for sure

Pyongyang who's right who's wrong

who pulls his strings sings this song

130413

Day Thirteen last year.

Na PoWriMo 2013 Day Twelve

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twelve

TOTAL WAR

Thought control in Pyongyang

total war for all the gang

Who pulls his strings Kim Jong-un

Beijing perhaps very soon

120413 

Day Twelve last year.

NaPoWriMo 2011 Day Twelve

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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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