Friday, 9 October 2009 05:08 pm
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deckardcanineI'm sure I could improve this poem later, but I've had enough of it for now. When you read it, imagine Shel Silverstein drawing angry anthropomorphic words. Hope that's not too weird for you.
The page was nice and quiet, or so it would appear,
Until an interjection made his entrance with a sneer.
Some took it as a challenge and accordingly were stirred
To begin what would become the famous War of the Words.
At first it seemed innocuous – two sides exchanging nouns –
Until the verbs’ aggression started moving out of bounds.
The slang was getting rougher, some words approaching swear.
One side unpacked their adjectives and launched them in the air.
The peaceful prepositions sadly never got the floor.
The phrases now were drawing up the articles of war.
The adverbs and conjunctions formed a formidable troop,
While the undercover pronouns did their best to snoop.
In half a dozen paragraphs, the forceful language stopped,
With scattered punctuation and a hundred letters dropped.
The mess of broken English made the few survivors sigh.
It’s always pun and games till someone loses an “i.”
The page was nice and quiet, or so it would appear,
Until an interjection made his entrance with a sneer.
Some took it as a challenge and accordingly were stirred
To begin what would become the famous War of the Words.
At first it seemed innocuous – two sides exchanging nouns –
Until the verbs’ aggression started moving out of bounds.
The slang was getting rougher, some words approaching swear.
One side unpacked their adjectives and launched them in the air.
The peaceful prepositions sadly never got the floor.
The phrases now were drawing up the articles of war.
The adverbs and conjunctions formed a formidable troop,
While the undercover pronouns did their best to snoop.
In half a dozen paragraphs, the forceful language stopped,
With scattered punctuation and a hundred letters dropped.
The mess of broken English made the few survivors sigh.
It’s always pun and games till someone loses an “i.”
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How about adding 'very' to the last line of the third verse to make it:
While the undercover pronouns did their very best to snoop.
It seems to improve the flow of that line.
(my mind even added it in on my first reading, for some strange reason...)
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