Good morning, WayzataJOHNN.
Thank you for sharing your poem this morning.
Have a Warm Fuzzy Wednesday.
Heres a challenge, the following poem (slightly political in tone) is based on Aristophanes’ comedy ‘Knights’ (Greek Hippeîs) The play is above all else an unbridled attack on Cleon, who was one of the most important political figures in Athens in the late 420s BCE and who was a personal enemy of the poet. Two years earlier, Cleon had prosecuted Aristophanes for “slandering Athens” (in his play “The Babylonians”). Aristophanes was convicted of the charge. “Knights” is also a strident attack on the politics of the day, particularly the ease with which Democracy could be corrupted. (sound familiar?)
See what sort of picture you think might fit this one.
The Play
T’were in the house of Demos, that citizen-body fair
old Paphlogonian Obama, is up to his tricks with flair
The slaves they are a learnin’, and coming up to speed
but the plots they are a growin’, as if a healthy weed
Obama is stealing the dinar coins of the child yet unborn
and some who supported him, are becoming slightly torn
But alas, from the frozen land, a woman of power comes
the valiant warrior, the Palin for an accounting of the sums
Obama and his hounds set cry, ‘Hope and Change’ so loud
and each is praying their not questioned by the crowd
Then the Knight of EIB gives strong support to the right
and Paphlogonian Obama is staggered by such might
Valiant the struggle back in elective combat fierce and red
ousting that young Paphlogonian, and freedoms are now fed
Back to the hinterlands of Chicago to activist bold again
Obama complains to the uncaring, how it was he was binned
Capital takes hold again and businesses grow anew
and those on the right get back to doing as they do
But taxes still oppressive, so things really haven’t changed
but at least its familiar, so we can accept it though deranged
"Then the Knight of EIB gives strong support to the right
and Paphlogonian Obama is staggered by such might