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  • Music Maker

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for May 26th is based on a rhyme called Music Makers, from his book A Children’s Treasury of Milligan. Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was well know for his crazy comedy and nonsense rhymes. Ironically he also suffered from severe depression. For this rhyme I decided I would focus on one…

  • Another Snowman

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge for January 21st is based on the poem The Snowman by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long timeTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,The spruces rough in the…

  • Tyger, Tyger

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz challenge for 22nd January is to take inspiration from William Blakes poem The Tyger, written in 1794. Tyger Tyger, burning bright,In the forests of the night;What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare…