In Competition No. 3326 you were invited to submit a nursery rhyme recast in the style of a well-known poet.
One of my favourite twists on a nursery rhyme is Lewis Carroll’s ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat’, the Mad Hatter’s party piece in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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