Isn't What Is To Defend
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
An isn't to believe kept defended.
Has become more respected to protect,
Than an is for what it is to keep...
For many.
Who can not accept it to respect.
And offended by the appearance of it.
With a wanting to get their wishes met.
That destroys a truth to delude,
A reality to fiction what will never be.
'This bowl of cherries have pits in them.'
'Keep fighting until our demands,
For the pitless ones come.
To end our struggles.
With our wants to wish them obeyed.'
'But rumor has it,
Pitless cherries do not come that way.'
'And who do you believe?
Me?
Or those rumormongers?
Paid to secretly put pits in cherries.
To then depict them to be pitless.
Making others to perceive us to be,
Petty pit pickers depitting pits...
From cherries they claim are innocent.
Just to depict us to be that petty.'
'Well...
What is it to be?'
'Peter Piper picked,
A peck of pickled peppers.
And...
If Peter Piper picked a peck,
Of pickled peppers?
How many peppers did Peter Piper pick?'
'You know...
There was a time I did not question,
Your loyalty.
But...
You and this Peter,
Leave me very suspicious...
About these pickled peppers.
And the time you both found,
To pick a peck of them to then ask me...
How many of them Peter Piper picked.
You were there!
Don't you know?'
'Sometimes,
I don't understand you at all.'
'And I'm hoping,
This is one of those times.
Get out of my face.
Picker to peck on Peter's pickled peppers!'
'It isn't what is to defend.'
'Neither was Jack and Jill.
Going up the hill.
To claim they were fetching,
A pail of water.
When water runs downhill and not up!
Do I have 'FOOL',
Written across my forehead?'
'You told me to get out of your face.
I can't see it from here.
But I can come closer.
To verify if it's still there!
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 31, 2021
Modified on April 27, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,678 |
Words | 337 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 1, 4, 2, 9, 2, 6, 12, 2, 4, 1, 7, 4 |
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