'Fireblossom Friday' at 'Imaginary Garden with Real Toads' invites participants to create a title using one word from two lists - one of adjectives, the other of nouns - and write a poem. The words were terrifying, regretful, miniscule, inebriated, envious,
reincarnated, obsessive, lovestruck, studious, unexpected and sherpa, ecclesiastic,
docent, incubus, Gypsy, zookeeper, CSI, zombie, stripper, prodigy.
The Regretful Ecclesiastic
His sermons were chilling, his
flock afeared
As he threatened penances drastic,
And many young folks foreswore worldly
goods
And took to the life monastic.
He stood in the pulpit, raised arms
and voice,
And declaimed in tones bombastic,
‘Be assured your sins will find you
out,
Judgement Day will be fantastic.’
The years rolled past and his
audience shrank,
He saw and waxed more sarcastic,
Then mellowed and his lessons
became
Gentler and more scholastic.
At the end of his days as he looked
back
On his life ecclesiastic
He wished he had smiled more as he
preached
And been less enthusiastic.
