The Magic Of A Miniature Dolls' House comical poem 526 by Angela Lansbury

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. March 2025.

I stopped outside a charity shop

I saw my own childhood dream

The perfect dolls house, fifteen pounds

No dolls inside, an empty scene

What is it that attracts us all

To a cute miniature dolls' house?

The teeny people, chairs and stairs

The happy hedgehog, dog, cat, mouse?

 An empty house - a big mistake

I scan online to make it right

Prices more than my Fisher Price

The cost of sets gives me a fright

All kinds of figures catch my eye

This search could waste my entire day

I must resort to DIY

Another way to waste my day

I search my big house - what to take?

Dried rosemary will make a tree.

A santa from a Christmas cake.

A key ring car- take off the key

I decorate walls as I please

Create this little house with love!

What is it that entrances us?

To see dolls still, or make them move?

Best make them match, all twelfth size

Not mix up dolls of different sizes

But it matters not to toddlers' eyes

Life's full of invention and surprises

Gran makes a doll from an old cork

A garden urn from a wooden egg cup

Dolls listen to us as we talk

Their life stories? I'll make them up!

I'm sure my grand-daughter will love it

Cares not what's costly, what is free

I may pretend that it's for her

Yet, in a way, it's just for me.

-ends

Parody of Twelve Days of Christmas by Angela Lansbury

Affordable, Modern Twelve days of Christmas Parody by Angela Lansbury On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me 12 Christmas crackers Eleven pictures showing Ten mince pies heating Nine fruits a stewing Eight cups of coffee Seven stollen slices Six little pancakes Five doughnut rings Four Christmas puds Three French wines Two hard boiled eggs Toast and honey for tea with me. Copyright Angela Lansbury December 22nd 2016 Author's note: My draft version included: Ten squirrels leaping Nine couples dancing Six big hard boiled eggs Five pretty rings Four singing birds I just thought For an audience which is not English, change it to Four steaming puds (or puddings) Alternative Lines 6 Six eggs for omelettes or six little crumpets 3 I had three French songs instead of French hens 2 Two ringing bells I changed to two honey jars Last ! tried to end with the last line reading: a turkey and a plum tree and plums for tea I tried a Christmas tree a cup of tea some Yorkshire tea Xmas Cake And a Christmas cake just for me And Christmas cake for our tea And Christmas cake to share with me Xmas Trees Or Secular Trees For Atheists? And a Christmas tree? And a tall spruce tree (More secular - but since Christmas in the title?) How about an atheist's Christmas? On the twelfth Day of December my lover/husband/ best friend/ an atheist (the rhyme to fit the music and copy the original wording in a familiar way has to stay as 'my' plus two syllables The original Twelve Days of Christmas carol On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me A pink synthetic tree. Happy Christmas to everyone Angela Lansbury PS I typed this out as a poem with line breaks. However, the website has deleted the line breaks. I shall have to devise a way of writing the poem in Word or Pages, photographing the page on a mobile phone, copying it into photos on a laptop and loading it up into my blog as a PDF picture. What a palaver! Ah - I see what happened. I can click on Compose or HTML above. I must have clocked on HTML. I now have to learn the HTML code to insert line breaks. Meanwhile ... Every year Grapedeal.com sends out a Christmas song parody using words relating to wine or wine bottles. See grapdedeal.com See my other posts on travel. Follow me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram. See me performing poetry on YouTube. See my comic poetry books on Lulu.com Other books on Amazon. Please share my posts. Thank you.