Behold the Blithe Oracle by David Hart <br />Behold the fearnaught <br />oracle, <br />From a merry mirador <br />Shunning any veneration <br /> <br />Dancing under resolute <br />moon light <br />Faineance and quiescence <br />The cowl of the <br />heterolite polyhistor <br /> <br />Proteus' transmogrifying <br />landscape yields delitescent <br />spectres <br /> <br />Kilkenny cats tango their bane on <br />a rumbling, bubbling, <br />shaking and <br />shivering earth- <br />tempora mutantur <br />et nos mutamur <br />in illis <br /> <br />The merry trenchant <br />oracle mambos on <br />rumbustiously <br />in a state <br />of rhathymia, <br />in an airy arena. <br />Toro, Toro! <br /> <br />vocabulary: rhathymia- light hearted; transmogrify- to change into different <br />shapes; bane-something that destroys life; kilkenny cats- people who fight to <br />the end; polyhistor-a person of wide or great learning; rumbustiously- wildly; <br />fearnaught-fearless; mirador- an enclosed balcony or turret; <br />tempora etc. -L. 'the times are changed and we are changed in them'<br /><br />David Hart<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/behold-the-blithe-oracle-by-david-hart/
