Verse Justice
The meter police are breaking down the door to my apartment
The iambs have me surrounded
Pentameters drawn
With deft haiku kung-fu the door burts into fragments
"Drop your metaphors!", yells a voice of red, red rose
I smile and sling similes at the beatnik cops like daisies in the wind
"Clap the couplets on him!" cries the chief
My thundering heart sinks utterly; heinously charged with contrived versifying!
"Have exculpation on this nescient, sesquipedalian soul!" I expostulate
The odes, in their grecian urnish way, remain aloof
Now I weep for that unravish'd bride of quietness
For truth is beauty, beauty truth--and I have slaughtered both
Torn asunder by my wild trangressions
Writing soulless verse/Making haiku a bad joke/Throw away the key.
Contributors: | archaeopteryx, Beefy, F, Kansas Sam, Karin, dok, N. |
Poem finished: | 3rd September 2003. |