Averse to Verse
O! Save us, do, from poets: bane
Whose mannerisms rack my brain!
I find their posturings coy, vain
And maddening - for they’re insane,
Like many artists, and make bold
To cast our thoughts in their crazed mould!
Avant-garde usage - idiom old -
These quaint quirks, and worse, leave me cold:
Feigned witticisms, smugly wrought;
Grammar contorted (not as taught!);
Pained words - tormented as for sport -
Strained metaphors, similes fraught..
I would not, for my life, essay
To carry on that irksame way! *
I vow to speak as plain as day,
Sans cliché. Avaunt, Poesy, pray!
[* As I expect you realize - but for avoidance of doubt! -
'irksame' in L14 is no typo but a portmanteau word
deliberately contrived tongue-in-cheek .]
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