[Newspoetry] Happy Pastoral ... (title continues)

[Nick Montfort]

Not about news, but it seems formally apropos given the rhyme scheme of
Willaim's "You Never Thanked the Poor."


Happy Pastoral Jotted Idly After Reading George Starbuck's "The Sad Ballad
of the Fifteen Consecutive Rhymes."
by Nick Montfort

In the frolicky plains of rich green,
Where the rainbow extends to the earth,
Such a duo of ursines are seen!
They cavort by their mountainside hearth.

A nefarious woman all bald
Used to menace the cute ones: their bane!
When the fully waxed moon roundly called
She transformed to a horse without mane.

The pop-cultural creatures so kind
Turned to stare, each to each, to decide
That they'd flee to a cave they could find
Where that steed would not heed them -- nor ride.

And they fled to that refuge of bliss,
By viridian grass, beneath air
That was pure. There was nothing amiss
In that beauteous homestead, the rare,
                                 fair
                                 lair
                                 Care
                                 Bare
                                 pair
                                 share,
                                 there
                                 where
                                 hair-
                                 bare
                                 were-
                                 mare
                                 ne'er
                                 fare.


-Nick Montfort                    We put the "er..." back into hypertext.
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