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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025.(provided I live that long, of course).
January 6, 2025 at 2:20pm
January 6, 2025 at 2:20pm
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Rowan Atkinson Updated

No doubt Mr Bean can match grateful,
he being an actor sublime -
in slapstick he’s really a plateful,
in satire he absolute shines.

But now he’s entered the arena
of political comment sans joke,
displaying a side of him meaner
and terribly hard on the woke.

And in truth I like him the better,
as a comic I found him quite crude;
his humour seemed childish and wetter,
now he looks to be starting a feud.

For the audience now is much harder,
the lefties impossible to please -
there’s no tougher food in the larder,
he will wish that he kept them in freeze.


Line count: 16
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, Week 22
Prompt: Use the words bean, can, match, grateful.


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