Poem by Bajanne

[Bajanne]

Right now at my high school there is a big feud between the English Department and the Science Department.   I wasn't really involved and just enjoyed the back and forth between them.  Then one day we got a letter in which were these words - "What is an English teacher anyway, but a failed Science student!"  That hurt to the quick and from then it was on!!!!
Last week we made a funeral brochure for the Science Department, and my Head of Department begged me to write a poem.  Here is it -

ODE TO THE DEMISE OF SCIENCE

Apotheosis of atrocious and audacious abstruseness,
Blinded by our brilliance, bewildered by our buoyancy,
Composed of crass, cumbersome and craven crudes –
Deadened in their denuded dungeons of datum,
Endlessly endeavouring to emulate the erudition of English,
Flailed flaccidly in the face of our flamboyance.


Go gauchely to your grey and ghastly grave.
Hesitate not – hasten to your hearse, you heinous horrors!
Immolated by the immeasurably illustrious intellects,
Jejunely jealous of our jocular and jocund junctures
Keenly killed by your own kamikaze characteristics,
Lugubrious, ludicrous, loathsome and laughable.


Menial mendacious mercenaries of mercurial matter,
Never do you novices negate your noxious nihilism.
Oh, obtuse ones!  Obviate your obstreperous obsessions!
Pamper not, pander not to pandemonium, but
Quit your querulous quibbling, and quiescently
Rest your remains in your reprobate repose,
Somnolence succeeding in stilling your savagery.


‘Til time triumphs over your tenuous terrestrial tenure,
Utter not useless untutored urbanities,
Vainly validating vapid venom.
Wait, oh wait for the waning wave of weakness, as you
Expire, extreme experiments of xenophobic extinction,
Yielding to the youthful
Zeal, zip and zest of your
CONQUERORS.

RIP

[Sluff]

Great poem but I almost needed a dictionary to read it  it was great.

[Rerun]

Dictionary?  How about an Encyclopedia?     Great poem.  That should put them in their place. 

Scientists never die they evolve backwards!   

Scientists were "created" like everyone else!   

[Sluff]

Scientists never die they evolve backwards!   

Scientists were "created" like everyone else!   

 

[jbeany]

A very sesquipedalian poem!

[glitter]

loved it!! and jbeany i loved your word too- I knew most of the poem, but had not ever heard that word!!TY

[kitkatz]

Am I allowed to say holy moley?   Superb erudition of your poem!

[Amanda From OZ]

Great poem!! wow another talented IHD member. 

[Hawkeye]

Great poem.  I especially liked how each line of the poem utilized a letter of the alphabet from A-Z.  Someone has quite a large thesaurus at home too I would say.

[goofynina]

That was cool Bajanne, now if i can only get my hands on a dictionary to find out what half of those words mean..

[aharris2]

sufferin' succotash!! that's a great poem



Rolando

[Bajanne]

Great poem.  I especially liked how each line of the poem utilized a letter of the alphabet from A-Z.  Someone has quite a large thesaurus at home too I would say.

Didn't do it at home, and didn't use a thesaurus.  I did it sitting at the computer in our English Staffroom.  They were begging me to write something, and at first I had no inspiration, then I thought I would try to baffle them with as many erudite and obscure words I had at my disposal.  Then the idea of making it alliterative came, and I did it all in less than 15 minutes.
The highest tribute came when our chief enemy said that he googled to poem to see if I had plagiarized it!

[kitkatz]

I did not even realize it was alphabetical and it was good, too!  Can I copy it and give it to my science teacher who is always teasing me?

[Hawkeye]

Didn't do it at home, and didn't use a thesaurus.  I did it sitting at the computer in our English Staffroom.  They were begging me to write something, and at first I had no inspiration, then I thought I would try to baffle them with as many erudite and obscure words I had at my disposal.  Then the idea of making it alliterative came, and I did it all in less than 15 minutes.
The highest tribute came when our chief enemy said that he googled to poem to see if I had plagiarized it!

Well then a BIG KUDOS to you.  I could never have thought of so many obscure words even if I had all day, let alone 15 minutes.  Guess it helps being in the English field.

[Bajanne]

I di dnot even realize it was alphabetical and it was good, too!  Can I copy it an give it to my science teacher who is always teasing me?

Feel free, Kitkatz!  Anything to put those Science teachers in their place!!

[kitkatz]

Gadszooks it gets better with each read!

[Bajanne]

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Scientists never die they evolve backwards!   

Thanks Rerun!  They will get this one early this monday morning.  Maybe I should make a poster with that.