Chen Xi (above) says top Chinese officials are guilty of practising sorcery 

A communist leader called Chen
Has said that he gets angry when
The Chinese tradition
Of folk superstition
Eclipses his party’s great men.

John Moynes

Pic: Reuters

Pope Francis, with inmates in Philadelphia, will visit a prison during his time Ireland

If you’re worried that you cannot cope
With the fear that you won’t meet the Pope
Just bungle a crime
And make sure you do time
Then sit in your cell and just hope.

John Moynes

Pic: Reuters

A Neolithic jar, possibly used for brewing wine, found at the site of Khramis-Didi-Gora, Georgia

In Georgia they’ve found a strong sign
Of stone-agers fermenting wine
Eight thousand years old
And best served quite cold
To accompany: mammoth is fine.

John Moynes

Pic: Georgian National Museum

The card Facebook blocked after deeming it an “adult item”

This simple and pure Christmas card
Was filtered by Facebook, and barred
But if there’s some reason
To censor the season
I can’t see it, and I’ve looked quite hard.

John Moynes

Pic via Guardian

An accident may have happened at a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan 

Now Europe lies under the shroud
Of a vast radioactive cloud
So we should ask can
Russia or Kazakhstan
Explain how this could be allowed.

John Moynes

Pic: Anadolu

This winter the government choose
To whack up the price of cheap booze
If you like good wine
Then everything’s fine
But fans of cheap lager will lose.

John Moynes

Rollingnews

If you’re loaded perhaps you should go
To the website of Tiffany & Co
And your Christmas stocking
Could contain something shocking
A three hundred dollar yo-yo

John Moynes

Pic Tiffany & Co

Juli Briskman was fired by her employer after flipping off Trump’s motorcade.

An American woman was seen
Disrespecting the Trump limousine
When her firm saw the pics
They acted like pricks
And flushed her job down the latrine.

John Moynes

Pic: AFP

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams (left) with Mary Lou McDonald TD and Pearse Doherty TD

It’s time for the Shinners to choose
Between two incompatible views
They’ve been on the fence
For too long and hence
It’s a showdown they cannot refuse.

John Moynes

Rollingnews

When leaving your workplace it’s neat
To give yourself one little treat
Like making a pile
Of Trump’s online bile
And pressing down hard on ‘delete’.

John Moynes