2025 NaPM 26 April

[dukealien]

Fool Addresses Phenomenon


O sickle moon, who holds your hidden handle
to harvest maidens’ hearts by light of candle?
What liquor drips down from your tilted cup
enticing Sun to rise and sip it up?
Whom do your steel-sharp needle-horns proclaim
as cuckolds, day-deserted, hid in shame?
You silver scimitar, you grin of God,
you rind of honeydew, you even odd!

[Form: Heroic couplets]

  {artificially aged version}

O sickle Moon, who holds thy hidden Handle
to harvest Maidens’ Hearts by Light of Candle?
What Liquor drips down from thy tilted Cup
enticing Sun to rise and sip it up?
Whom do thy steel-sharp Needle-horns proclaim
as Cuckolds, day-deserted, hid in Shame?
Thou silver Scimitar, thou Grin of God,
thou Rind of Honeydew, thou even Odd!