Distressing Poetry
Muscles ache and backbones creak
New things bought become antique
Metals tarnish, plaster cracks
Paintings fade, their colour lacks
Rocks erode and woodcraft weathers
As does brick and hands and leather
So can't this work on poetry?
A problem for a bard trainee
I've read - I've learnt - my knowledge thin
My writing's young - how do I win?
Shift new to old - you'll never guess
To age my words - my verse distress
Change you to thou or thee or thy
Kick in wherefore instead of why
From shall to shalt and does to dost
And will to wilt to age adjust
Nay here and there but hither thither
Dally, tarry 'stead of dither
On some occasions add an "e"
Ye olde shoppe - example twee
Prithee sprinkle -eth or -est
To bringeth years I thinkest best
Methinks this mayst not spake the truth
Nor verily nor so forsooth
Perchance deceipt myself become
To transform words is rather rum
To scribe like quothed by Will Shakespeare
Tis most corrupt - a thin veneer
And so anon I stop this verse
Afore olde English gets much worse
Entry to contest "Old Jewelry or Just Old Things or Old, Old Poems"
Written 2nd November 2016 or hundreds of years ago?
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