Suum cuique

Suum cuique

Den starken Zeitwörtern  zugewidmet

You can fashion a flavor sensation,

and season with spices and herbs.

But you’ll ne’er find a dish   half so delish’

as German irregular verbs!

The height of the heart knows no summit,

no bliss in the bosom reverbs

like the lofty elation, the sweet conjugation

of German irregular verbs.

Wherewith shall we banish the sadness

such gloom as the savant perturbs?

With what but the magic, celeste or pelagic

of German irregular verbs?

In vain seek we higher instruction,

from the citadel  down to the ‘burbs.

Leave off Kant or Newton,  hie thee to the Teuton

for German irregular verbs!

Ye may seek among Greeks and Phoenicians,

and query both Croats and Serbs,

But never shall find  such a treat for the mind

as German irregular

German irregular

German irregular verbs !!

Wunderbar !!!

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[Poetic parental advisory:]

When our young son had ripened  to the sum of three summers,

he used to like to ride me

huck-a-back,

while I cavorted and cantered

to the tune and the timing   of Milne’s rhythmic ditty,

“We Two”:

Wherever I go, there’s always POOH,

there’s always POOH  and me!  (da-DUM)

Upon each stroke of “POOH”,

I would leap, as though to launch him --

yet held his ankles firmly,

as he, with elfin arms, embraced my neck.

The present poem -- a dactylic dithyramb --

is likewise suited

for such pedagogical and saccadic use.

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