Sounds to Read Aloud

[Gwaihir]

There's nothing much aesthetic

about being quite ascetic.

But it's even worse if you also want athletic.

'Cause if you want athletic,

Well, that’s quite aesthetic,

But if it's an ascete you dream to be,

Then if you must,

Well one can be an athlete too.

Would make you more ascetic to be quite athletic,

But skinny hungry starved and running hard,

Simply Isn’t quite aesthetic!

[Cyril Darkcloud]

* Drops his usual seriousness to have a bit of fun. *

 

There is a pleasure

in the musical

light humor of

the rhyming of aesthetic

with ascetic

and let’s not forget athletic

with their syllables of three

accompanied by the

rhyming of long E’s

on the back half

of athlete and ascete.

The concept is quite clever

and I do believe

I’ve never

offered a critique

of so athletic

an aesthetic

as one finds within this piece.

But any good critic

must also be ascetic,

knowing when the time

to stop has come.

And so before this gets pathetic

I’ll refrain from running on

and simply make my point:

Nicely done!

 

Thanks for an entertaining read.

Keep writing!