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GLOBAL/NAPOWRIMO 2024 DAY 27

SUNNY BANK LANE

Tumbledown like Jack an' Jill to the beach

everyday they go up and down the hill

The whites blacks and greys of the cobblestones

that they fall down on when they graze their knees

an' like headbangers both of them fall down

Rolling down the hill down Sunny Bank Lane

where they paint the houses in pastel shades

an' where everybody lives by the sea

Vinegar and brown paper bandages

are applied to the heads of the children

to cure their concussion and make them well

Everyday they go up and down the hill

tumbledown like Jack an' Jill to the beach

27042024

Song #680

HAPPY PEOPLE

We are happy people

From a mythical place

Under the spotlight

We are happy people

We are happy people

From a mythical place

Under the spotlight

We are happy people

Outside Jersey Street Mill

There stands a Jack with his Jill

Singing nursery rhymes

From a mythical time

Under the gas light

They are a happy couple

In Ancoats Cottonopolis

There is so much bliss

Jill singing to her man

Jack be nimble - if you can

Under the street light

They are a happy couple

A shoe shop assistant

In that mythical age

But Jill was insistent

She could have been on stage

Under the spotlight

They are a happy couple

We are happy people

From a mythical place

Under the spotlight

We are happy people

We are happy people

From a mythical place

Under the spotlight

We are happy people

Repeat

040117

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Nineteen

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Nineteen

Today’s prompt at Napowrimo.net comes to 
us from a list that Daisy Fried put together: 
Write a poem in the form of a personal ad!
Or, if you like, try any kind of want ad. 
Personal ads, though, do have a kind of poetry to them. 
The personal ads of the London Review of Books are 
particularly famous, and have even spawned a book. 
When I was younger, one of my favorite guilty pleasures 
was getting a copy of the local alternative newspaper and 
reading through the personal ads for (a) witty ones and 
(b) really horrible ones. One of my favorites was a witty one, 
which went something like this:
Antonymically Correct?
Ham-fisted, vindictive milquetoast seeks ineducable, filthy 
harridan to castigate, bore, and neglect. 

Try and top that, if you like. (Oh, and by the way, the 
personal ad doesn't actually have to be about you, of course. 
Feel free to invent every last thing about it). Happy writing!

Here’s mine:

HELP!

Beatles fan wltm similar

perhaps please please me at the cinema
or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Old codger coffin dodger hold my hand

190413

Day Nineteen last year.

Monday Poetry Train Revisited #10

Written for my son Jack Batty Sewina
and previously published in my collection
Proper Trog and Other Nursery Nonsense
copyright Andy Sewina aka Daddy Wise (c) 1993
Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited

BRUNCH
Little Jack Batty sat on a tatty
eating his ploughmans lunch
with his breakfast all done
and his dinner to come
and said what a nice bit of brunch!
PT1993