Childhood Memories I

Valerie Singleton
Could have endless fun
Making gifts from loo rolls
And broken old washing up bowls.

and there's

Valerie Singleton,
In 1971,
Made so much from empty detergent bottles,
Loo rolls, glue and Tiger Moth throttles.

credit: BBC

First Contact

An alien mind
Closed to we who cannot read
Another human's

Artistic Differences

Richard Burton
Was notably curt on
Whether Philip of Macedon's fate
Was to be upstaged by his Alexander the Ingrate.

Credit: United Artists

Barren Yarns

Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen,
Gehört einer Kette Brünchhausen.
Zwar war das Deutsch hoch, doch,
Aber gerochen haben die Fische ziemlich höher noch.

G.Bruckner

or do you prefer

Baron Munchausen
Told tall tales ten to the dozen
Of djinns, houris and caliphs,
But never of bankers and bailiffs.

Gustave Doré

The Longest Fifty Days

Lightness of Being
Reward for reaching the end
Of costly campaign

A Soldier's Farewell

Captain George Mainwaring
Would quietly have turned to gin,
Or meth,
If Adolph had left him alone with Elizabeth.

© BBC, 1972