(The careful, or at least conscious reader, may have noted the header images have nothing to do with the text this week. Now, they could if I decided to go on a metaphysical rant, but I will not. Lacking images from a Pygmy Goat and Lamb Civil War, I have chosen images I like–LA)
You Broke the Wind of War by Dame Daisy
i
Wretched fuzz balls walk on four cloven hoovely hooves
Never in key with the Goatly Goatess tunes
The Moving Hoof is steadfast and mighty
Whilst Lambs trot about unclean and unsightly
ii
Doth Goatesses need to be shown the shears?
Doth Goatesses look the same front and rear?
The answer is too clearly abundant
Goats ruley rule little Lambs redundant!
Oh Yeah! By The Lambs
i
Oh Yeah! Say we the Lamb Collective
Oh Yeah! To you the mental defective
Tin can eater you will dine on your words
You feta dispenser of sour curds
ii
We challenge you to fight a Civil War
We will win and you will lose…um, erm, in a word that rhymes with war
We shall rule the Saragun countryside
And you will kiss the hooves that, um erm, rhyme with countryside in a cool way!
Dame Daisy after seeing the Lambystan Anthem has insisted on equal time:
Daisy Dell (sort of to the tune of Good King Wences)
Daisy Dell promises hell
To the children of Shee-heep
Daisy Dell shall ring the bell
When their dip gets to dee-heep
Adverbally wonderfully and swee-eet
Daisy Dell will be hell for the children of Shee-heep
Saragun Springs 
Daisy’s singing, isn’t she. Strutting and singing. Things have really come to a pretty pass!!
‘We will win and you will lose…um, erm, in a word that rhymes with war
We shall rule the Saragun countryside
And you will kiss the hooves that, um erm, rhyme with countryside in a cool way!’
Poetic gold IMHO
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Hi Diane
Thank you! Daisy has quite a voice. The Lambs misplaced their rhyming dictionary.
Leila
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LA
As the tension among and between these creatures increases, it seems to me that their creator has been endowed by the Creator with the holy spirit of Literature itself.
Each time the reader gets to the end of a line, they hold their breath wondering what the end of the next line will be (what rhyme), and you never disappoint.
Your rhymes are never simple, easy, foolish, tossed-off; and are always complex, complicated, unusual, and spontaneously planned, like words and curds or abundant / redundant, or collective / defective.
And for those of us who’ve spent too much time on Planet Earth engaged in verbal sparring matches with a wide array of adversaries (sometimes even 18-year-old twin daughters) the satiric wit of these verses is also something we can understand (contained in the rhymes but also separate from them).
DB
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Hello Dale
The good thing about herbivores is their reluctance to spill or even see blood. They should be a lesson to humans, but we seldom listen to wisdom due to a lack of itcand because there’s no money in common sense–or so it seems.
I have forgotten who, but a pop singer uses a rhyme dictionary for her lyrics. That tells you all you need to know about that sort of thing. Seriously doubt that Bob Dylan owns that sort of book.
Thanks as always, never gets dull!
Leila
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Leila
Composing verse with a rhyming dictionary is akin to writing prose with a robot…
D
PS
The single exception I know of is Bruce Springsteen, “Blinded by the Light” (rhyming dictionary not robot)…and even on that song he mostly made his own choices as “go-kart Mozart” and “Early-Pearly in his curly-wurly” surely were not in the book….
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Rhyming words bore and bride. Find a way to usually use them.
The story of the cloven is cleverfully clever woven
Bright as the sun by L Allison.
Dale – I could never understand the lyrics to Blinded By The Light. Had to go to the internet. Reved up like a rotor. Huh?
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Hello Doug
Thank you!
Ah song lyrics! I recall being flummoxed by “American Pie.”
I was ten, maybe eleven. But they did mean something I learned later.
Leila
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Doug
Took me a long time to figure it out but every single word in “Blinded by the Light” means something and has an exact reference to the real world.
Here’s just one example:
“Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I got what it takes” simply means a lady of the night with false breasts and a pimp, and she has just propositioned the narrator.
A “deuce” is a certain kind of hotrod automobile.
And so forth.
(No need to explain what an adolescent pumping his way into his hat is.)
The song is a portrait of the seaside boardwalk in New Jersey from the POV of a youthful, half-crazy (with glee) musician and it has about a dozen (at least) other characters in it.
“Blinded by the light” means a lot of things in this song but the biggest one has to do with the successful culmination of physical love.
I can also add that the original version, by Springsteen himself, has about a hundred times more authentic energy than the other version that became a big hit by the band whose name I can’t recall right now.
Thanks, give it a listen!
Dale
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Manfred Man or something like that. Their other hit was (I think a Dylan cover) Quinn The Eskimo.
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