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

[William Gillespie]

Nick,

Starbuck is great fun. I found a few of his books at the library. Though none
seems to include the condensed Shakespeare sonnets you described, there are
numerous such gems, such as a poem called something like "Sonnet in which
every Word ends on a Different Letter."

William

Nick Montfort wrote:

> 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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