For Jami Patterson's The Seed Of Fear Poetry Contest
My interpretation of nursery rhyme Wee Willy Winky's "seed of fear"
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Wee Willy Winky creeps about the town Into children’s bedrooms he’ll be peeking. Sometimes if he finds an open window, into that child’s room he will go sneaking. He fancies himself a Sandman. But nothing like the Sandman is he. No peace does he bring the sleepless kid as he creeps about in hours that are wee. He sprinkles no sand into sleepy eyes, but he slides like a ninja beneath a child's bed, then mutters low sounds that he thinks are soothing, but he frightens most children instead! “Go to sleep; go to sleep,” he sometimes whispers. Children who hear this are filled with fear. Too terrified are they to leave their bed. They think that the boogeyman must be near. Wee Willy Winky, you do nobody good as you creep all around in your nightgown. Some of those you visit get PTSD. You ought to be jailed and banished from town.
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