Alphabet

Writing poetry is dead easy

pure lemon squeezy

An' available to all

From a genius to an idiot

(Usually the same thing differently)

All you need is an alphabet

That's the works

The complete deal.

Twenty-six shapes an’ sizes

Five vowels an’ a bunch

of consonants.

(long word, consonants

makes you feel

like an intellectual)

Start with the obvious,

collect the freebies

Just rearrange them accordingly

An’ you’re everybody

From Homer to Bob Dylan

An’ all the Jane Austens in between.

In the beginning was the word

An 'a couple of abbreviations

(longer word, greater intellect

that’s the idiot in us all speaking)

KLM a Dutch airline

STU a Scottish name

(Don’t you feel chosen)

HI is a sublime Sanskrit mystery

It is the key to the

Ashwamedha Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad.

(The Horse of the Worlds)

But we won’t go there; just yet

Twenty-six letters

Five vowels an’ twenty-one consonants

That’s an average of five point two symbols.

Five an’ two are mirror images

They form a chalice

(we’re in Holy Grail territory here)

Somewhere else to avoid,

If you wish to retain your Elgins

It’s very possible to get very lost

An’ we’re not talking Milton here

(It’s worth remembering

the happy farm is just around the corner)

That’s a bunch of literary fun

However, an’ it’s an important ‘however’

The alphabet contains one word

NO.

And, as the Bard says

“There’s the rub”

That’s the frozen negation

And the burning cruel denial

There’s the gateless gate

An’ the lockless lock

It’s that keyless thing

Unlock that golden mystery

An’ there’s the ‘open sesame’

To fields of undreamt sound

And oceans of unseen song

Only idiots, dreamers and poets

Venture beyond that gate

Few return. and fewer write about it

Irresistible isn’t it?

It’s as simple as ABC.

Makes a genius of us all.