Our king was quite ill and almost dead.
I cured him and got him out of his bed.
My late father's knowledge saved the king's life.
The king wants Bertram to make me his wife.
This is a reward for my noble deed.
Bertram thinks I'm someone he doesn't need.
I love the king's ward, and I want him so,
but he acts like I'm one he doesn't know.
Based on the play "All's Well That Ends Well" by William Shakespeare
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Categories:
bertram, literature, love,
Form: Rhyme
An anonymous artist had named the painting:
'Bertram Crumm'
it was simply a depiction of a man
trudging over a blank Landscape.
No one had heard of this man,
but this enigmatic fact alone was intriguing,
and now he was perfectly framed.
After many years
an art critic tracked him down.
Crumm claimed to be a meatpacker
who worked in Allen Town,
yet no one could see him as a meatpacker
working in Allen Town.
Some saw nobility in his gait and posture,
some saw a furtive mindset, most declared
emphatically that Crumm was definitely
a poet!
If we had known
that Crumm had often confessed to his family
that he loathed poetry and was indifferent
to art in general
then that landscaped/portrait
would still be gathering dust in a Goodwill shop.
However, a billionaire owns it now,
and ironically,
he also can't write a lick of poetry either.
Categories:
bertram, poetry,
Form: Free verse
We have just agreed on paper:
He is to us all 'A leper'
Still leper with his skyscraper,
No less so with his nice wrapper...
Oh Yes! For him some saved pepper,
Bertram T. Noah cause to caper,
For blokes he'd kept at a distance;
Persons elsewhere 'Revered Substance'
We're all clearly turning fiends,
Who had been his supportive friends,
At the bottom of it all pride,
As options began to be wide...
More visits to us for new shape
We have blades that leprosy scrape.
Categories:
bertram, allusion, conflict, cry, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme