April 2023

The Chaos – 1922 Poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité Wikipedia page about the poem. Dearest creature in creationStudying English pronunciation,   I will teach you in my verse   Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy,Make your head with heat grow dizzy;   Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear;   Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet,Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!   Just compare heart, hear and heard,   Dies and diet, lord and word. Sword and sward, retain and Britain(Mind the latter how it’s written).   Made has not the sound of bade,   Say–said, pay–paid, laid but plaid. Now I surely will not plague […]