Acanthus

Acanthus Revisited
1-10-16

Grabbing the creature with his neck growing out
Let me take you there to tell again the parable
As you come to believe while in doubt
Born to the purple of birth royal and exalted
O, seller of purple what do you have to offer
As the beast is gone
And the voice is heard of our Mediterranian Acanthus
What does she have to do with me
Save mine distraction for architectural ornaments
Where I wish to get more involved
And the office of a cardinal and a bishop
Another hairy trigonometry equation is solved
Imperial, princely and regal showy and brilliant and illuminating
As healed is the father of Publius again....



Born To The Purple
1-10-16

Off to another good start
I go three-sixty thrice and more again
Not saying to be one to take up tablet and pen
Of weather that one cannot chart
Delivered from the fiery furnace and the lion's den
Of our Corinthian capital
Our pillar of truth of the office of the cardinal
We study about while yet in youth
For devices and effects marked by excessive ornate rhetoric
At the landing on Malta
And the miracle of surviving the viper's bite
A topic upon which to further write
Thank you my candy man and have a good might
Full of exaggerated literary devices
In that we have this privilege and right...