Notice my play on words?!
(sonnet #MMMMMMMDCLIX)
Roll Soren Kierkegaard (nor dare exhale
As if the mention culls a sheer suspense)
Across your tongue, and spell "philospher" thence
Out slowly, to learn we were taught lies they'll
Assure us was for good, to countervail
His wisdom, whiles you're piqued for aught intents
Upon that note: "they" would acknowledge, sense
Demanded it? But hide what might avail.
I know "they" swore that Shelley was in poor
Scuse mad. And now find Kierkegaard was too?!
Yet Bysshe had keener sense than all as twere,
Which I learn Soren did as well? and who
"They" classed as what, eh, for all that?! Go stir
The burning coals, for ashes whisper 'new.
21Jan19c
Feb 10, 2019
Feb 10, 2019 at 6:23 PM UTC
Notice my play on words?!
(sonnet #MMMMMMMDCLIX)
Roll Soren Kierkegaard (nor dare exhale
As if the mention culls a sheer suspense)
Across your tongue, and spell "philospher" thence
Out slowly, to learn we were taught lies they'll
Assure us was for good, to countervail
His wisdom, whiles you're piqued for aught intents
Upon that note: "they" would acknowledge, sense
Demanded it? But hide what might avail.
I know "they" swore that Shelley was in poor
Scuse mad. And now find Kierkegaard was too?!
Yet Bysshe had keener sense than all as twere,
Which I learn Soren did as well? and who
"They" classed as what, eh, for all that?! Go stir
The burning coals, for ashes whisper 'new.
21Jan19c
P.S. I read this aloud January 25th at the 2019 Elgin Literary Festival.
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