Donal Mahoney Poet Free verse

Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply

Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply

		After reading too much Aquinas

Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet leapt out of a tree?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.

Would an addax in Denmark gyrate
if an emu in Sweden bore freight?
Or an eland in Chile complain
if jerboas in Goa refrain?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.

For really I thought ‘twas the onager taught
the aphid the tenor of Twi, and that
Gascony scops with Norwegians eloped
when Danes had lepers to tea.
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
 

Donal Mahoney

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Doris Culverhouse April 14, 2010 at 6:12 AM Thanks for the info on your poem lemon...I just wasn't sure of the terms, whether they were symbolic or literal and I am not familiar with the hotel. We have on old hotel in Thomaston and it is being torn down due to the cost of renovation.