Winston Churchill - The Poet

'We shall fight on the beaches We shall fight on the landing grounds We shall fight in the fields And in the streets. We shall fight in the hills But we shall never surrender.' Churchill's speeches were so well defined Possessing a slight touch of rhythm and rhyme. The most apt description clould be free verse, A style of their own ~ iniquely diverse. How could a wartime speech be poetical When made up of words so widely political? But Winston loved poetry, a great writer was he; Nobel Prize for literature, nineteen fifty three. At Harrow School, when only fifteen, he wrote 'The Influenza' ~ published and masterly. And one day as his daughter's dog lay whining He wrote a few lines, to stop her from crying... 'Poor Puggy Wug' Oh what is the matter with poor Puggy Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug; run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug ~ that is the way to cure Puggy Wug. AH! But what a great Orator And War Leader Winston Churchill became.