At 10:25 AM 6/17/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>> > >Mary had a little lamb
>> > >extolled in verses antic
>> > >Close coupled little ditty rhymes
>> > >Not that iamb' so pedantic...
>> > 
>> > KR> Mary had a little lamb,
>> > KR> She thought him okey-dokey.
>> > KR> But she warned him lovingly,
>> > KR> "Don't go near the trochee!"
>> > 
>> > KR> Veloci--bad is bad, and then it's verse--raptor
>> > 
>> > Marie a little lamb had she
>> > She sang her song in iambs four
>> > A nasty diction you'll agree
>> > Unless you'd like to hear some more.
>> 
>> Fresh Snow upon fields
>> Mary's small lamb's curly coat
>> glistens in sunlight....
>> 
>> 
>
>Forsooth! What snowy vision cavorts upon yon school hill?
>It doth frolic and gambol very like the wind's own trifle.
>'Tis Mary's lamb that comes, so innocent of right and rule;
>Sweetly blind to all save its unbated joy,
>Thus root and branch of Mary's deepening sorrow.
>For neither fence may pen nor taut leash bind
>This youngling child of ewekind's wandering.
>Left no recourse, the dewitted father doth command
>But one transgression more, and "'Tis the Butcher's with thee!"
>Mary's bitter protests fall on ears numb to tale so oft retold.
>Though glistening tears doth flood the very gates of Mercy
>And heartbroke cries of woe call down hosts of angels to investigate.
>This with all due passion laid before the bench of Father's dark duty;
>Alack, she'll find no Pardon here.
>
>So, methinks, might our so human soul,
>Deaf to naught but its self-serving drummer,
>Force the hand of steel eyed Fate
>And dance so blithely to our Doom.



I bow to thee, O Tygress muse-inspir'd
Whilst I in doggerel remain so deeply mired.

Veloci--you've outdone yourself this time, and the rest of us, too--raptor


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