IF @3Browning@1 only were here, This yule-ish time o' the year -- This mule-ish time o' the year, Stubbornly still refusing To add to the rhymes we've been using Since the first Christmas-glee (One might say) chantingly Rendered by rudest hinds Of the pelt-clad shepherding kinds Who didn't know Song from b-U-double-l's-foot! -- pah! -- (Haply the old Egyptian @3ptah@1 -- Though I'd hardly wager a baw- Bee -- or a @3bumble,@1 for that -- And that's flat!) . . . But the thing that I want to get at Is a rhyme for @3Christmas@1 -- Nay! nay! nay! nay! not @3isthmus@1 -- The t- and the h-sounds covertly are Gnawing the nice auricular Senses until one may hear them gnar -- And the terminal, too, for m@3as@1 is m@3us@1, So @3that@1 will not do for us. Try for it -- sigh for it -- cry for it -- die for it! O @3but@1 if Browning were here to apply for it, @3He'd@1 rhyme you @3Christmas@1 -- @3He'd@1 make a @3mist pass@1 Over -- something o' ruther -- Or find you the rhyme's very brother In lovers that @3kissed fast To baffle the moon@1 -- as he'd lose the @3t@1-final In fas-t as it blended with @3to@1 (mark the spinal Elision -- tip-clipt as exquisitely nicely And hyper-exactingly sliced to precisely The extremest technical need): Or he'd @3twist glass,@1 Or he'd have a @3kissed lass,@1 Or shake 'neath our noses some great giant @3fist-mass@1 -- No matter! If Robert were here, @3he@1 could do it, Though it took us till Christmas next year to see through it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PERSPECTIVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE by HENRY VAUGHAN BLOOD ON THE WHEEL by ALEXANDER ANDERSON EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 15. RATHER DEEDS THAN WORDS by PHILIP AYRES THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN by WILLIAM BANKER JR. |