216: Proletariat

Members of the proletariat…
Is that you? Are you that?
Do you know this word?
Is the meaning obscure?
Do you know? Are you sure?

Prone to misspelling
difficult to say perhaps
people let me help you out
let me tell you what it’s all about.

It describes the workers you can see
humble folk, just like you and me
the labouring classes
the long suffering masses.

Did you know? Were you right?
Is your vocab muscle, dormant or on strike?
Through education each can rise
and change the system so despised.
So people, take the time to learn new words
if you want those unhappy voices heard.

Lady Satellite

215: Vocab Stretch

Dragon rise, elegantly fly
soar across the leaden sky
show us all your fearsome beauty
ornery creature, capricious fire-breather
we bring you offerings and do our duty
do not atomize our city
spare us, we pray
have mercy, show pity
we come in silence
no garrulous chatter
name your price
it is no matter
let our crops stand
let our children play
we will feed you cows,
how many do you want today?

Lady Satellite

This was a response to a writing exercise. The challenge was to write a poem quickly using the following words: atomize, capricious, dragon, garrulous, ornery.