Apologies to Shakespeare
The noble raptor seeks a rock with sun;Upon the rock he rests his scaly head.Such laziness he does consider fun;To perch upon a crag as if a bed.He deftly preens his scales in the harsh light;“A very dapper specimen I am!”He smiles a toothy grin of sheer delight;“There is no finer dino than Sir Tam!I love to lounge about,–yet well I knowMy awesome skills are needed elsewhere soon;Although not yet have I been called to go;My mistress when she calls, is quite the loon.”The fearsome reptile from repose did rise;To launch attacks of buttsecks by surprise.Think you can do better? Enter the contest.
Bravo! Bis! Bis!
Is this from the “dark lady” or “young man” period of DinoTam Sonnets?
The sad thing is that I know so little about (non-latin) poetry that I have no clue what you’re talking about. Â This took WAY too much time to write. I fail at iambic pentameter.
Hah, it was a reference to two of Shakespeare’s “sonnet periods” – during one many of them were addressed to an unnamed young man, while another set was to his Dark Lady. Much ink has been wasted trying to determine the identity – if there actually was one – of these two people.
I did use one of his sonnets as a model, about the lady with the foul breath, but few of his “turns of phrase” remained after I was done with it. Â He definitely did not mention “buttsecks by surprise.”
And they say he was a visionary. /scoff
/golf clap
Ahaha love it ^^