The giant, and other nonsense verse

Chapter 10: RETRIBUTION

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About This Book

A playful collection of short nonsense poems that inventively mixes cosmological, animal, and everyday scenes into absurd, child-friendly vignettes. The pieces personify giants, winds, and creatures, stage fanciful gatherings such as polar balls and tropical teas, and use rhythmic rhyme and surreal imagery to twist ordinary expectations into humorous scenarios. Themes include imaginative scale, anthropomorphism, and whimsical explanations of natural phenomena, arranged as brief lyrical poems that favor meter, sound play, and visual comedy for a young readership.

RETRIBUTION

Cupid tired of the twang

Of his bow-string said;

“I will try a boomerang

In the arrow’s stead.”

Pliant to his cunning art

Far the weapon whirled;

Touched a throbbing human heart;

Changed its little world.

Boomerangs come back, and this

Hit the careless elf;

Lo, into love’s baleful bliss

Cupid fell himself.