21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 292

There was an Owl lived in an oak.

And one day his hoot became a croak

His feathers were drab for all too see

Then he gasped and fell out of the tree

NEIL ARMSTRONG'S MOON-LANDING ANAGRAM - ONE SMALL STEP

 

A thin man ran

Makes a large stride

Left planet

Pins flag on moon

On to Mars

WETTY KITTY

 

If you can answer this

I will eat my hat

How can you describe

The smell of a wet cat

WEDDING BAND

Marriage is a thing

Which will put a ring

On a woman's finger

And two more under

The men's eyes

The poor guys

BRAINY BLONDE

The brain cells

Of a blonde crone

Will almost inevitably

Die all Alone

THE LABORS OF HERACLES # 07: THE CRETAN BULL

 

Heracles when driven mad by the goddess Hera

Murdered his three children and his wife Megara

The Delphic oracle punished him for the murders

By ordering him to perform the Twelve Labors

The labors were set by king Eurystheus his cousin

The seventh was a creature sent up by Poseidon

A fire belching bull of huge size he had to beat 

The bull was ravaging the countryside of Crete

The hero overpowered it despite its flaming breath

And sent it to Athens were Theseus inflicted death

NATURE’S WAY

Time is merely nature’s way

Of assurance

And stops everything happening

At once