Gracehoper jigs ajog,
hoppity skippity croaks Mr Frog.
Shhhhh! Mr Finnegan’s Awake!
Complain with the full force of a Jesuit priest
Whine like a man who’s out of time.
Casuistry and sophistry cling together perfectly,
Poetry’s more about the wine than the whine:
A true poet makes the difficult easy
Turns water into wine in a half-truncated line,
Caesuras soar, in a breeze of words