PS This was a bit of a labour of love - not only finding items beginning with the right letters, but also then making them rhyme! 🤓
Alphabet News
The A news came first, with Austerity raging,
Air strikes, Acquittals, Alzheimers, Ageing,
Australia and Amazon ravaged by fire,
Air pollution climbed higher and higher.
B brought us Brexit, dividing opinion
And Boris behaving like Trump's little minion.
Leavers and remainers hurled verbal abuse
As Brexit reporting took over the news.
We thought B was bad, but then followed C,
This Coronavirus called COVID-19.
Highly infectious, sweeping the nation,
We were underprepared for this viral vexation.
The Death toll came next as we moved onto D
In hospitals, care homes, communities.
Numbers, statistics displayed on our screens
And families left grieving behind the scenes.
Let's hope as we move through the rest of the year,
The Alphabet News will bring us more cheer:
Education for all, endorsing Ecology,
Renewable Energy, stable Economy,
Freedom, Fair-trade, Fresh Food and Fun,
Gratitude, Greenpeace, Giving up Guns,
Housing the homeless, Hope, Healthy Hearts,
Inventions, Income, Investing in arts,
Justice and Jobs, Kindness all round,
Liberty, Learning, Love that abounds,
Mindfulness, Music, new Medicines discovered,
NHS funding, Natural beauty uncovered,
Opportunity, Openness, Organ donation,
Plastics reduced and Pride in our nation,
Pollution solutions and Quality measures,
Racial equality, Sporting and leisure,
Scientific discovery, Trade deals, Tolerance,
Unity, Vaccines, good Work-life balance,
Women's rights, Wellness, Wildlife protection,
World peace through leaders finding connection,
With Xenophobia a thing of the past,
Young people building a future to last
With Zero tolerance to all types of abuse
And a Zest for more cheerful Alphabet News.
Rachel McCoubrie July 2020
