If the Pen

If the pen is mightier than the sword
Why did the one given the greatest gift by the Lord
Shake a spear?*


----------
* Editor's Note

Clearly Scylla here intends the implied "ghost rhyme":

Isn't that queer?
. . .

Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen

Ode to the Latinates

Mica mica
Parva stella
Custodes cognoscent
Sis tam bella*


____________________
* Editor and Literary Advisor to the Queen Enid Evenson Haddow De Burke:

For you non-Latinates out there, here is the English translation -

Twinkle twinkle
Little star
The happy satellite
Knows where you are ...

On Shakespeare

Literary debate on Shakespeare's sexuality
Has endured centuries and may still more
But I know a Queen once received him
With "Henry - The Avon Lady's at the door!"

Ode to Wickedpedia

I long ago told them:

"Aviatrix Laura Houghtailing Ingalls, J.P. Morgan's great-granddaughter-in-law, loved to fly her girlfriends* to her chalet at Berchtesgaden."

...

A world-important fact
The editors
Have most mysteriously ... "forgotten" ...

__________________________________________
* Weren't they all! (or, for those of you who speak a teutonic tongue - put THAT in your sauerbraten!!!) - Enid Evenson Haddow De Burke

On the Subway

A glance
Askance
Perchance ...
Love?

The Netizen is a Creature Coy

The "netizen" is a creature coy
Here today, gone tomorrow
Oh were there a Shakespeare to envoie
Clicking Submit ... is such sweet sorrow ...

An Adage Comes of Age

Rome's long fallen
So time's mores phrased anew:
When at home
...
Do as the homos do!