Rod Loader is our muse!

Rod Loader is our muse!

Jeremy Garrett Jeremy Garrett

Jeremy Garrett

Quality Analyst: Saving the World, One Graph at a Time.

发布日期: 2016年3月30日
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Rod Loader's my muse,
In silence he sits amused,
Watching me abused.

My mind trips and falls,
Rod whips and drives me onward,
Five, seven, and five.

With the power of
Five, seven, five, I challenge
Him and his might nine.

Daughters of Pierus
and the son of Thamyres,
unite with me please!

Together we join,
our strengths combined, fates entwined,
fight Rod Hesiod!

To the nymphs I pray,
teach me now to play lyre, harp,
voice, and kithara!

Debasih lend me
verbs and vocabulary.                                                                                                            Susan spell for me!

Deb H. guide me please.                                                                                                    Unfluencers help me now.                                                                                                Gary teach me strength.                                                                                                   

Oh Calliope!
Oh Clio and Euterpe!
Oh Urania!

Erato forgive!
Polymnia, Thalia,
Oh Terpsichore!

Melpomene, you
need not teach me tragedy!
I sought his challenge!

In my vanity,
my voice becomes a twitter!
Blindness falls on me!

Justice will prevail.
Like Marsyas, my hubris,
departs with my hide!

Watching me abused,
in silence he sits amused,
Rod Loader's the muse!

 

Friends referenced in this poem:
Rod Loader, Deb Helfrich, Debasish Majumder, Susan Rooks, Gary Sharpe


Useful links that help explain the plot & the meaning:
https://www.ancient.eu/muse/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas
https://www.ancient.eu/Kithara/

Jim Judge

Quality Assurance Consulting

8 年

Wow Jeremy, very nicely done!!

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Franci Hoffman

Author

8 年

Bravo, Jeremy Garrett.Well done!

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John Rylance

Pensioner

8 年

Jeremy Garrett writes a poem We read enthralled by his clever Haikus extraordinaire

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?? Susan Rooks ?? The Grammar Goddess

Editor / Proofreader of business, nonfiction, and podcast content. ??BIZCATALYST 360° Columnist ????The Oxford Comma????Solopreneur??NOT A PODCASTER ??Dog Lover??Spunky Old Broad ??

8 年

Now that's quite a poem, Jeremy Garrett! Funny and quite a nice way of saying thanks to some very special people -- best of all, Rod Loader! And I agree: he IS our muse.

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Hemamalini Venkatraman

Journalism and Communications Professional with over Two Decades of Experience

8 年

Too good! The power of intelligence and the fascinating response to the 'haiku' challenge!

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