A Call to Alms

By Ewan

Thu, 29 Jan 2009
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A call to alms
would better suit,
than strident, angry words of battle.
What care we fools
for careless commas,
and misused, misplaced: colons a-rattle?
The ode's the thing -
he almost said,
and writing, writhing on these pages,
is clear as mud,
for reasoned readers.
Why bother? Scribing for the ages
is not what it's
about my dear friend.
It's a calming, cooling of our passion
for ill-writ texts
of worthless waffle,
our selfish gene for self-expression.

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Submitted by jennifer on
I am going to be my usual pedantic self! In order for there to be self-expression, there must be a universal language that we all understand in which to express ourselves! Gah! Great poem, loved this bit: and writing, writhing on these pages, is clear as mud, for reasoned readers. p.s. your grammer is good, tho, innit? J x