Most limericks are humorous … or at least meant to be funny. But today I’ve written a serious double limerick to commemorate the life and death of the great Senator Ted Kennedy: <\/p>\n
Ode To Ted Kennedy (Tribute Poem)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
A Kennedy fondly called Ted
\nHas, alas, been declared to be dead.
\nHe was loved cross the aisle
\nAnd did so much worthwhile
\nWhich is why floods of tears shall be shed.<\/p>\n
Teddy worked for the poor and the weak,
\nThe oppressed and the wronged and the meek.
\nHe was proudly progressive,
\nA lib’ral-obsessive.
\nPass health reform — crown Teddy’s streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most limericks are humorous … or at least meant to be funny. But today I’ve written a serious double limerick to commemorate the life and death of the great Senator Ted Kennedy: Ode To Ted Kennedy (Tribute Poem) By Madeleine Begun Kane A Kennedy fondly called Ted Has, alas, been declared to be dead. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,856],"tags":[661,780,280,857,426,190,858],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-ted-kennedy","tag-health","tag-health-reform","tag-kennedy","tag-massachusetts","tag-obit","tag-senate-democrats","tag-ted-kennedy-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}