Promptly 4, 5 and 6

Bedtime Blues

Bedtime Blues

A nursery rhyme’s a dangerous place to be
there’s no comfort in the message to me
the hunter may help out Red Riding Hood
that hardly does poor Grandma any good.

Hansel and Gretel may enjoy gingerbread
yet they ruin the witch’s wee homestead
though the witch’s intent may be too bad
the kids' responses are murderous a tad.

The three piggies are variously lazy
and their architectural ideas quite hazy
but the wolf is doing only what wolves do
and it’s true that pork makes a fine stew.

So consider the villain in these tales
they’re not always deserving to fail
there’s two sides to every bedtime story
and the ending does not have to be gory.


Line count: 16
Rhymed aabb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 9
Prompt: As per illustration.