Absconding Muse: Vagabond Scavenger

Jilting muse with availing inspiration did wend Barren reservoir doth futility portend A bristling quill with no well to descend No gratuitous frills on vapid contours suspend Seeking with brokered shill to amend Imploring vagabond seeking itinerant dividend Wading through flooded channels, silty grains to append From literary vault embezzled title apprehend In voluminous discourse a simple aphorism distend In ancient annals a trite fable from corroded parchments rend From Medieval chronicles a homily with which to contend Out of Victorian poet's graded folio a euphemism vend From contemporary laureates' silken threads, new yarn spin distend- to stretch out, to inflate