Ode to the Coronavirus

Oh how I do wish that Ovid
Had penned an 'Ode to Covid' !!
For then - all of this preposterous hysteria
Would have died out ..

Long ago ..

In Illyria.

...

- Baroness Scylla vom und zu Karybdis, at your service.

Ode to Gore Vidal II

Remembering Gore I say
Dux, ducat, dueño

American royalty
For the Gayhedrin, life-long loyalty
In terms recherché -

La Vidal fuera sueño

...

The Salute of the Scribes

The Salute of the Scribes

As translated from ancient sources
by Baroness Scylla vom und zu Karybdis DBE*

Dedicated to George Soros

Ceaselessly through the ages do we labor

Setting quill after quill remorselessly to paper

Thoughts, emotions, the weight of the World upon us -

Morituri te poetamus

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EDITORS NOTE: Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke, Literary Advisory to the Queen, Editor Emerita

*This most sacrosanct of appellatives, "Daughter-Regnal of the British Empire", is relatively unknown at the present time to the common person. Begun secretively during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a mere 32 women of august station have been so honored to the present day, Baroness Scylla being the most recent investitee. - Enid

A Christmas Ode

Fisher-Price is the king of toys
What is the meaning of all this noise?

My evil stepmother told me to not touch
The Christmas tree
It might fall over
So of course I touched it
And of course ...

Fisher-Price ... king ...
Xmas marks the spot
Come out come out whoever you are!

All together now (with feeling):

Fisher-Price is the king of toys
Whatever
is the meaning
of all of
this noise?

Ode to Morrie

I'd LOVE to spend Tuesdays with Morrie!
(But, unfortunately, Tuesday's my hair-day on Alpha Centauri...)

Ode to Scientology

Oft-times
Off-lines
...

Ode to Baudelaire

Tho' picture be worth
A thousand words
The poet adorns the baudy angels
With artful nouns
The beauteous arse
With divined verbs ...