MODEST PROPOSALS

A longish poem about wallpaper.
A short lyric about discouragement in white.
A medium-length thesis of uncertain importance.
Another sonnet, about scholarship.
A couplet of olives.

A long narrative about the exaggeration of your absence.
Several quatrains about candle stubs.
That old sestina on Isaiah.
Palindromes about Scots presbyters of the 18th century.
Some rock lyrics from Benares.

A nature poem about committees.
Seven heroic couplets about Art Murphy.
Several more heroic couplets on Murphy's Law.
A ballad about studying Latin in Latium.
A masque for Merceds and her Benz.

by Stephen SANDY, in "THE POETRY SOCIETY", Volume 105:1, Spring 2015

(photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)