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  • “The Poet’s Reply” | Futility Closet

    What’s unusual about this poem, composed by James Rambo for Word Ways, May 1977?

    Use fulsome howl or direst word in galling us; toil over a shoddy ode?
    Listen, dressed in gyves, tiger, allies fall, ensnared in timeless eras, mentally in agony, essays in gall.
    Outwit Hades, ignore verses, you real lover? Come!

    Useful somehow, Lord, I rest, wording all in gusto I love.
    Rash odd yodel is tendresse; dingy vestige rallies fallen snared.
    In time, lesser as men tally, I nag on — yes, say, sing all out — with a design.
    O reverses, you’re all overcome!

    The two stanzas are spelled identically.

    Tagged: amusing futility closet james rambo lit literature poem poet poetry spelling words

    Posted on September 19, 2012 with 1 note

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