Is- a Terran Serpent

The fanged serpents are uncoiled
And they have encircled the landmass
From the Mediterranean to Euphratis and Tigris
And Paris
They hiss, they hiss.

IS is a snake
With claims fake
Eclipsing Bagdad and neighbourhood
With a huge hood.

ISIS is no Nile-flooding Isis
With any Osiris!
ISIS is an acronymic onomatopoeia
Uncoiled now and coiled then
With a long dia.
ISIS is hiss, hiss is IS
ISIS, ISIS.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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November 18, 2015 at 10:49 PM
I like this, Sarwar! You have described ISIS well! Love, Kim
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