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An Ode To Writing Ditties

This witty ditty has been written by Teresa Harrison-Best!

An Ode To Writing Ditties

Shakespeare had his thee’s and thou’s,
Chaucer spoke of tales.
The Bronte’s dabbled with romance,
whilst Keats rejoiced the Dales.

With sonnets, haiku and odes to boot,
our ditty needs a place.
Wordsworth touched the mind and soul
with the ditty it’s the face.

Some would scoff and scorn this verse
and say it was not art.
Poems for the great unwashed
is how we want start!

The ditty covers every sphere
from teeth to camel’s humps.
It takes a funny look at life
and drags us out the dumps.

There’s neither rhyme nor reason
why a ditty can’t subsist.
It hits the spot and has a plot,
and clears away the mist!

Whether prose or verse or in between
the ditty’s here to stay.
Long live humour in funny rhyme
that brightens up the day!!

 

Written by: Teresa Harrison-Best

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Teresa H-B

Teresa lives in Worthing with her husband Stuart and their three rescue cats. She has recently retired from a long career in the Health and Social care sector, and has taken up Mosaics, Pilates and walking cricket. Her love of writing has always been prevalent throughout her life, and she wrote Catawall, fluent in feline following major surgery as a form of therapy. Her love of rhyme and rhythm feature in Catawall and her subsequent children’s books featuring Mackerel a piratical cat who captures the heart of everyone, even the ships mice and rats! ‘Mackerel and The Jolly Daisy’, ‘Mackerel and the Treasure Map’ and ‘Mackerel Saves the Day’. Her latest project Doggee Longlegs enters young fiction aimed at older children. Doggee is about young dog who starts life in a rescue shelter, overlooked on the homing day. Teresa is a great advocate of all animals and feels passionately about animal welfare, both at home and abroad.

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