Words are jolly fine!

They are a veritable mine

Of communication tools,

Enlightening, intriguing, illuminating,

Freely available to any old fool,

As I am duly demonstrating!

 

The words and phrases Shakespeare used

Forsooth, are equally available to you and me,

They are ready to hand and entirely free.

I can adapt and modify the Bard’s great words,

Imagining that they are all my own!

“Is this a poem that I see before me?”

Ah, now, I can hear you all groan!

 

“Let Halifax in Calder melt

And the wide arch of the ranged Piece Hall,

 Fall, come wind, come wrack.

Who dare apprehend me for a felon?”

 

These words, I contest, my lord,

Were borrowed rather than stolen.

My client has acknowledged his debt

By using those quotation marks.

He must, above all, I will contend,

To his own self be true!

 

As there is no loan charge

And no copywrite protection

On any of these wonderful words,

I am going to channel my inner

William Shakespeare, at my own discretion!

 

How much in this dear world is free?

Fresh air, water (sorta) and poetry!

 

Oh, yes, and Writeoutloud!