""Scribes old did assert...."

[Totenkopf]

Scribes old did assert that authentic Bards
delighted each their Muse with eerie form;
words, yawped dry Polonius, should to yards
remain confined, 'ere minds --and bodies--harm.
And with this postulate truth might subsist,
perhaps, and prove decorum's sane advice:
letter'd knaves, lacking order, mewl, and twist
their follies, as rogues hotly cast their dice.
Yet cold measures oft' fairer pleasures stall,
and dull the spirit drawn towards the Sun;
Pedants' rules, while not unheeded, appall
Hyperion; strictness mars his run.
An intermixture, sacred yet profane
may suffice to remove old nature's stain.

[joel]

"tru dat"
the bard said to his ward

and spat on humpty-dumpty
fallen walls

the ward
appalled
picked up a Picasso
blue period perfection
and sipped it in his pocket

"tru dat"
the ward said to his bard

which came first--
the omelet
the chiken liver pate
or the vegetarian eco-faschist?

same ward and bard
painted pretty and fantasy
and guernica was certainly blue
and certaqinly fantastic

and ward and bard don't rhyme

tru dat

[Totenkopf]

You are so right, man, and your MoralVision, too--whoa.

Where did vegetarian come from? OR omelette. Ward. Wart? How did you derive such inferences? Veggie I am not.

I was awaiting your scansion! Slant rhymes--too are permissable--- Perhaps you've read Yeats (not that I rilly admire that irish monkey's verse)--- somewhat preferable to Keats. And yes, I cribbed ""appall""" from none other than hackmeister Blake , minister of Earthshake


(rilly Im no poet, jus' jazzin with phorm---but poesy is meant to be in like italian or latin anyways. AS Ez said, itz dead) “Vulgas vult decepi”.

[joel]

My Italian is in need of mercy....

QUID PRO QUO—
LA NOTTE GRAZIOSA
DÀ UN'INCANDESCENZA SCURA BELLA

AD LIMINE—
LA NOTTE GRAZIOSA
È UN SOGNO CIRCA CHE COSA È STATO E CIRCA CHE COSA SIA

QUA—
LA NOTTE GRAZIOSA
COME OLTRE ESPRIMERE...COME

[Totenkopf]

Grazi--

Have you finished like Book X of the Republic yet---Not to say an essay or two from Pound's How to Read? Nietzsche as well--not overly fond of versifiers---

Anyhoo, genius-thespian, I would appreciate it if you simply refrained from commenting on my posts.