Semicolon Failings
The scarlet letter, none too soon
Escaped the dark side of the moon
And echoes through the black despair
In search of the apparent heir
The beaten wings of my forgotten solitaire
Emblazoned on my pallid brow
A shiny metal sacred cow
And through the hawthorn blows a wind
Reminding me of when I sinned
And reminding the masses of where, why and how
So half-a-dozen honest thieves
Will make off with these rusty leaves
From books of irony and brass
By Greenaway transformed to grass
With Cato the Conspirator behind the glass
Nathaniel Hawthorne, dashing wit,
Was never one to idly sit
In optimistic glee
He'd crouch forlornly in a tree
And pour scorn on the masses with bile-mottled spit
Contributors: | loaf, Ethetran, Beefy, chaise, jm, Apsley, Roland. |
Poem finished: | 29th January 2004 by Anon.. |