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All your life, Betty White, you have been The great Hollywood comedy queen ... And your living so long Proves it cannot be wrong To avoid eating anything green! (Monday 31st January, 2022 in the Creativity Webzine) |
Sidney Poitier leapt a high bar. Once a dishwasher, he rose so far After being self-schooled That in movies he ruled As a path-breaking Hollywood star! (Monday 31st January, 2022 in the Creativity Webzine) |
The Tories would not be in panic If Boris looked more messianic. But Cabinet changing Is just rearranging The deckchairs upon his Titanic! (Thursday 17th February, 2022 in the Daily Mail) |
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A bear from beyond the equator, At tea with the Queen and her waiter, Revealed the food store That her handbag is for— It's a marmalade sandwich, for later! (Wednesday 8th June, 2022 in the Daily Mail) |
An absence of trains from my station And worsening hyperinflation Put France beyond reach— But near home there's a beach Where I'm having a sunny staycation! (Wednesday 29th June, 2022 in the Daily Mail) |
"It was not my intent to concuss My own Chancellor," ventured Liz Truss, "Though I wish he was downed On some better laid ground When I threw Kwasi under the bus!" (Thursday 6th October, 2022 in the Daily Mail) |
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Liz Truss may have sworn she's unbending On taxes, on growth and on lending, But Jeremy Hunt Has been equally blunt— With the mother of U-turns on spending! (Thursday 20th October, 2022 in the Daily Mail) |
What crisis? Everything's relative It's been aeons since I saw my kin, Who keep saying, "Please visit, we're in" . . . So this winter I'll stay Till each shoos me away— They see me. I don't pay. It's win-win! (Thursday 1st December, 2022 in Lighten Up Online) |
Mused Pope Francis: I couldn't step down Since I knew I would make the Lord frown ... Now I needn't press on Since that obstacle's gone— There's no room for three popes in this town! (Thursday 12th January, 2023 in the Daily Mail) |
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Issac I deserve more respect: I begat Science watching an apple go splat So ass-backwards I'm not— And yet that's what they've got Carved in metal behind where you've sat! (Monday 16th January, 2023 in Light Poems of the Week) |
Claimed Beijing: It's not how it appeared. Our balloon inadvertently veered Through America's sky, But to spy wasn't why— Upper winds made it hard to be steered! (Friday 10th February, 2023 in the Daily Mail) |
No meat, no wine: Noel Christmas herbivores once used to be Santa's reindeer, while Christmas TT Meant the Tannenbaum Tree . . . But now Christmas means we Are them both: dinner's meat and wine-free! (Wednesday 1st March, 2023 in Lighten Up Online) |
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"Since I come from so broken a home," Harry said, "It's my duty to comb Through my past, which I do As a service to you ... As I profit by hawking my tome!" (Friday 10th March, 2023 in the Daily Mail) |
After making his brother a lord, Boris can't let his dad feel ignored. So, to put matters right, He'll make Stanley a knight— If he only gets Rishi on board! (Tuesday 21st March, 2023 in the Daily Mail) |
Though Princes who took Grandma's shilling Were warned not to shrink from fulfilling Their duty, the Spare Could be spared, while the heir To the heir couldn't risk his top billing! (Thursday 20th March, 2023 in the Daily Mail) |