PP#24:

Old Nursery Rhymes

What’s with the old nursery rhymes? “Ring Around the Rosy,” about the Black Plague. “Rock a Bye Baby,” in which the baby and cradle fall from a tree. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater and London Bridge about locking a girl away.

I believe kids deserve better than these archaic, grim rhymes and other tales we tell them. No wonder, when the fairy tales for today’s kids come from a darker period in which the Grimm Brothers told horror stories. Honestly, the original versions are much darker than their modern counterparts.

So with such grim focus, no wonder kids still feed their lives with fear, worry, doubt, and suffering. It’s the expectation, after all. It’s what all the stories and rhymes are about.

New Nursery Rhymes

So why not forge the way for new nursery rhymes that can infuse the coming generations with more fulfilling notions? Ideas like unity, peace, love, joy, and freedom. There are so many positive teachings we can pass through playful rhymes, games, and stories.

I know that for myself I prefer to contribute something with my creative works. I wish to inspire and inform as well.

If you are a creative writer, illustrator, musician, poet, artist, dancer, singer, you-name-it, think about your message when creating. Would you help lift the world in light-hearted messages of love, or spend your time focusing on the darkness too long?

I challenge you to point your compass towards the light and offer positive, inspiring works for the generations to come.

As for me, I will busy myself creating mine.

Stay tuned for more on this subject soon.

Creatives collaborate! Shine the world in love and light. Please like, comment, and share.

Many blessings to all,

Matthew