Inchies WordPress Prompt 1996 – Reply

Inchies WP Prompt 1996 Response

PROMPT:

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

A shrewdly judicious, open-ended one this is.
Three people came to my mind in an instant.
But which one should I choose? Difficult!
One is my political hero, Nye Bevin.
Second is Comedic Hero, & author Spike Milligan.
Third, my Trad-Jazz Hero, Acker Bilk.

I lived during each one’s reign,
Nye Bevan NHS creator, easer of pain!
How many lives were saved by his excogitation,
He was a Politician and a true equalitarian!
His memory, to me, gets no condemnationing!

Spike, who fought depression,
His mind, like mine, was full of flustration!
His daft poems enthralled the nation,
His books, written with determination…
To free himself from frustration…
Candid, revealing all his reactions,
to the war he hated, showed his gumption.

Acker was a normal man, with dubitation,
Not interested in science or life’s equation,
A wage earner then came the German invasion,
From worker to soldier, a disruption…
Started his Trad-Band, played with cachinnation,
His solo Strangers on the Shore, brought fascination…
The first UK song to top both charts, UK & USA!
A down-to-earth man, there he did stay!

So, which do I opt for?
Will WordPress arrange for their ghosts to come to tea with me?
I’d love to see them all; give them mugs of Glengettie…
If it did happen, that would be a biggie!
I’d have the press come visit me…
We’d need bewitchment & alchemy?
Witchcraft? Devilry? Sorcery?
No, it’s too confusing for me!

Why Can’t I Invite All Three?