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Finding a folly euphonic
* Amphigourie Qu’il est heureux de se défendre Quand le coeur ne s’est pas rendu! Mais qu’il est fâcheux de se rendre Quand le bonheur est suspendu! Par un discours sans suite et tendre, Égarez un...
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Garden of Omnifarious Delights
* Though humble be The bumblebee, I’d rather rise With butterflies. Then back to earth In time for spring To metamorph And colour bring. When winter ends And seasons cross, No Mister Frost No Scrooge...
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Darling starling
. Sturnus vulgaris: an ill-fitting name for so genial a bird (though you’re not quite tame) From treetop to rooftop on sorties incessant With firework-like feathers of dark iridescence. . The second...
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On a wing and a poem
. You may glare And cry “Unfair!” I do not care. I will not share. . A damselfly in no distress Pauses now to take a rest. . Pink-purple funnels, A hovering visitor: Summer encounter. . [Previously:...
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Octopoem
On Twitter some time ago, I had a chat with Kory Stamper and Jeremy Kahn about the plural of octopus (octopuses? octopi? octopodes?) This prompted Jeremy to write a rhyme, Plurals of the many-footed,...
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Grammar haiku and a whispering shell
Short poems and quick links today. First: a nonsense rhyme from months ago, reposted here lest I forget all about it: On a day quite fine by the wind-blown brine, I sit with my friend tranquilly — A...
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Bookmash: Quench the lamp
[click to enlarge] Quench the lamp Quench the lamp, the image, The chalice and the blade, Silver threads of hope Booking passage in the modern idiom. * Thanks to the authors and editors: Alice Taylor,...
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