803 - The Cabinet Room

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #207) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

witches ear dolls heartbreak branded scorpion spells

ball werewolf resurrection alone blind hunted

The Cabinet Room

When everyone was seated

The Leader took the stand.

“We need a three word slogan

The crowd wont understand,

We need to choose it wisely

So fear and greed are fanned!”

The witches stopped their chanting

To cheer what he had said.

They knew the power of nasty spells

To activate the dead

And practiced it on plaster dolls,

Or so it has been said.

Beside them sat the spineless ones,

Quite blind to all they saw.

Untouched by heartbreak or the grief

They'd bestowed upon the poor.

They just branded them as terrorists

And showed them to the door.

A nasty group of suited men,

Assassins, up for hire,

Were resurrecting past faux-pas

To feed the hateful fire

With a passion and a venom

A scorpion would admire.

They strangled babies in the woods,

Drowned puppy-dogs in sacks;

They bit the balls of new-born cats

They slept on beds of tacks.

They trained so they could go alone

But hunted best in packs.

A jolly fool grinned from ear to ear,

And then naively asked  

“Do the poor drive ‘round in cars?

And could the port be passed?”

Meanwhile, ignored by everyone,

A poodle strutted past.

But everyone within the room

Knew who ruled and why.

The boardrooms here and overseas

Demanded they comply,

And when told that they should jump

Meekly asked ‘How high?”.

The meeting was coming to an end,

The zombies gave a cheer,

The Team of Oz then stood and vowed

To snarl, to spit and smear.

Then, as they broke to venture out, 

A werewolf howled in fear.

 .

---

© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

---

Print this post