Soutie’s scientific treatise on the universe has driven me to introspective distraction, allowing waves of cosmic energy to stimulate my creative juices (n’ aw that) and producing this:
Reflection 1
The lady’s not for burning. ‘Heck!
Witch lady?’ you might think.
The Captain’s wife of course, you fool!
So chuck her in the drink.
Reflection 2
A logo’s meant for kerning. ‘Heck!
Is that to do with sweaters?’
Creative minds spend hours and hours
On spaces ‘tween the letters.
Reflection 3
The Russians were for spurning Lech
Walesa, Poland’s hero.
He played them at their lethal game:
Lech 10 – The Russians zero!
Reflection 4
The Gen’ral stood before Quebec,
His orders came from Pitt:
‘Go get them Frogs, young James,’ he said,
And prove that you’re a Brit.’
PS You never know, the Muse’s mirror might cast more weird images this way before 29th February.
Boadicea's Chariot 
The boy stood on the burning deck.
The Captain did not care,
“When all your clothes are burned”, he leered,
“I’ll have your nethers bare”.
Hat, coat, taxi!
OZ
Blimey that was pretty quick, Janus.
I could be wrong, because the discussion became very confusing, but I thought we were supposed to stick to the a-b-a-b rhyming scheme?
Ah, but you have, well sort of! Very clever. 🙂
Love the picture, by the way. Battle of the Nile?
I said, sort of, Bearsy, because I noticed that the first line of each stanza rhymed, but please don’t ask me to translate that into a rhyming pattern because my maths is not up to it! 🙂
He’s just a worthless little speck
No use to you or me
The pedants cried. “Wind in your neck”
He’s our Apostrophe.
: ) LW. Perfect rhyming scheme!
Oops, major smiley thing error. 😦
Sigh.
Bearsy with all due respect, I know.
My “sort of” was my typically British understatement; irony even!
Oh no, it’s so much more fun here, Bearsy. 🙂
Have you had your breakfast?
Anyhoo, I’m obviously trying your patience so I will bid you goodnight, Bearsy.
à demain. 🙂
Arrers, thank you!
My rhyme scheme (x – a – y – a) was dictated by the Universal Mathematical Muse – and may prompt my disqualification. But that’s art, innit? A bit like a polymetric sonnet really.
The painting is “The Battle of the Nile: Destruction of the Orient By Mather Brown”. Can you spot the boy who caused all this trouble?
This pedant asserts that the full-stop, or period if you prefer, following ‘cried’, should in fact be a comma. 😉
Of course I stand to be corrected.
The muse sat at his writing desk
knocked out a verse or two
Ignored completely all the rules
on rhyming as laid down
Some considered him a pest
daring to be untrue
‘It’s art he cried don’t be fools’
he cautioned with a frown
Soutie, g’morgen! A masterly work – with truth at its burning heart! 🙂
Rime skeme: a – b – c – d – a – b – c – d !!
Sipu: You are correct and the “end quote” should be at the end of the fourth line.
I’m absolutely delighted that you noticed 😉
Turned out to be a fun thread in the end. 😉
Arrers, yes indeed – another victory for hope over experience. 🙂