Please bring the wine cuz I’m flat broke,
I couldn’t even buy a can of Coke.
But once you smell my heart’s sweet rose,
you’ll only wish you were all nose.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a writer and artist. His many publications are available in print or on the Internet. Robert holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. You may find his writing scattered over the Internet.
The extented rhyme across lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza is beautifully Spenserian in its musicality. Yours…
Probably the most fictive element in the poem is the "belle dame sans merci" cliche applied to Clara. She and…
I love everything about this ode - the chosen form, the mellifluous flow, and the message. The poem's brilliance lies…
Susan, this great send up of all Earth-worshippers reminds me of one of the funniest videos of all time. I…
Gorgeous, Margaret, absolutely gorgeous. Your "blossoms affably exchange affection" reminded me of Wordsworth's daffodils enjoying the air they breathe, and…
This one was impudent but on point. I like a scandalous verse now and then. So much was not said, which says it all. I’ve heard that Latin is like that.
This is based on a longer Catullus poem (carmen 13), and gives an echo of only the last two or three lines. The “Coke” reference, of course, is a modern interpolation.