Ruffled Feathers

Cherry

By luigi_pagano

Sat, 05 Apr 2025
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4 comments
 

When the news spread
of what went on
between Zeus and Leda
the beautiful swan,

Demetrios of Athens,
a Greek ephebe,
decided to seduce
a great crested grebe.

He declared loudly
with absolute candour,
what's good for the goose
is good for the gander.

But the boy didn't stop
to consider whether
the avian creatures
were birds of a feather.

There was disapproval
from a wise old owl
who reprimanded him
with a severe scowl.

Then advised the youth:
don't behave like a nerd
it doesn't make sense 
chasing a pennate bird.

 

 

© Luigi Pagano 2025

Certificate 15
Poem
Mutevoli pensieri
Surreal
Humour

Comments

Submitted by Tom Brown on

The half- rhymes are excellent, natural and easy. What is pennate bird? Is it like prison perhaps? pennant? Got me lost here.

Loved your "don't behave like a nerd it doesn't make sense".

Well done! Tom 

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Hi, Tom.

pen·nate

  (pĕn′āt′)
adj.
1. Having feathers or wings.
2. Having elongated, bilaterally symmetrical valves. Used of diatoms.
3. Resembling a feather. Used especially of a muscle whose fibers extend obliquely from a tendon

Cheers and thanks, Luigi

 

Submitted by Mark Say on

Surely that would get you locked up?

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Despite depiction of bestiality in art and mythology, actual acts were probably as uncommon in ancient Greece as they are today. Roman civil law, however, made no mention of it.

Cheers.