But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild,
Else of our Sex, why feigned they those nine
And poesy made Calliope’s own child?
Anne Bradstreet
Huntress, fill my pleading glass !
Let this marksman’s blood be merry.
Whether we shoot hind or ass,
Hail our wet preliminary.
Having brought to birth such brave quadruplets,
Let us toast the midwife with our couplets.
Sweet Diana pours her rounds:
Tawny Port and Shooting Sherry.
Hares now flee the baying hounds
For their country sanctuary.
Thine the night, oh bright and savage huntress;
Lead us to the quarry, chaste Artemis.
Conejito, hide yourself
From the charging adversary
Who would change your pelt for pelf;
(All close shaves are cautionary).
Forgive our clanging gong and sounding brass;
They serve to drive the quarry from the grass.
Healing balm: such sporting frolic,
Dares us to stay sedentary;
Banishing our melancholic
State, her bright apothecary!
Wild huntress, let us know you as the Greeks
And quiver as our heart your arrow seeks.
Toast we now the careless hunt;
Spoonerists wax luminary.
Visions of the hairless cunt
Make my lay discretionary.
Allegory of DIANA, Goddess of the Hunt
The (off-) rhyme, rhythm and general phonetic in this poem are fantastic…a worthy end to the April series. I can’t believe it’s already been a month! :)
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Thank you Anna. Definitely on the questionably ribald side of things, but I had great fun writing and reworking it. It was all the product of one sordid spoonerism 🤩.
Thanks for visiting this April. Will you keep Slip of the Tongue open beyond April or will you vanish mysteriously into May?
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I have no intention of mysteriously vanishing, not that that has ever stopped me before. I shall see if I can squeeze some poems out of my dry and brittle bones yet! :)
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P,.S. Always a pleasure reading your poetry (and other things). Not only in April, but all year around. :)
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