Ode to a Mushroom...

Oh Mushroom found in deep dark wood

Will you be tasty' Will you be sweet"

Or will you burn me guts and lips when I do eat thee"

Are you deadly' or are you a treat?

I sure don't know as I am no good

At telling what is to eat and what is poison

Should I die from eating you, oh well..

For you were good but just a few seconds

And that is all it takes to kick the bucket, sort to speak..

Fin

Lo there King of Iron, who sits upon a throne of coldest stone!

Who has a heart of Ice and fist of Steel..

You who leads an army to crush and burn, kill and stomp

Who seeks to silence music, to end joy and make children weep!

That you would bring death to words and dance!

Know this, I am the Bard King, The Prince of Jesters, The lord of Fools

I have an army too, Of Jesters, Fools, Merrymakers, Dancers

Actors, Old men that dream of better days, Children that laugh

Young Lovers that sing and dance on a warm summer's day

My Kingdom is the Theater, My Throne is the Stage

My Crown is the everlasting poems of free thinkers

My anthem is the epic tales of old

You can bring your ruin, you can bring your wrath

Cold steel sword and axe you command!

But for long as men and women think, for long as old men dream

For long as children laugh and play, and parents tell tall tales

Words of Freedom, Songs of Joy will never die, never go to dust!

And men such as you will be forgotten, you will go to dust

I shall last, I shall endure, as the fool keeps being the fool

As the poet recites and the actor performs in my Kingdom

And lo cruel king of stone and iron, with heart of Ice

The day shall come when all your works are but a dream best forgotten!

Fin

An Ode to Gold

Shiny, clinky gold, that rattles me pocket

Buy many pretty things with you

Feel like a king when me coin bag is full

Distractin me with your lovely luster

Broken into many vaults to have you

Dream of sleeping on big piles of you

Hard won and kept close when I have you, sweet sweet gold

The world goes round and round on you precious gold

Fine in coin, fine in ring and fine when set with gems

Gold, sweet gold, me best friend in the whole wide world

Fin

Oh comfy chair, easing me bones after a long day

Sturdy under me backside that I might fall asleep

Please don't break from all my weight

Two of you make for nice bed, when there is no bed to be had

And when I have had too much to drink at the bar

Me own lil throne of wood by the hearth

I better not sit too long in you through or my back might ache

Chair, also good for bashing into someone's face

Hey its a good weapon to have on hand you know!

Especially when there is a barfight an some really upset drunks

When they find out you have stolen their coin purses

A chair is a good friend to have indeed

Fin

Oh foul stew, not once but twice we had to fight!

You came back for more of me brutal beatings

I threw axe at then and stunned you a lil bit

Then bring down the pain with Stormfang

Freeze and shock, Shock and Freeze

But lived you did still

With all me heart, to blast with flame

How was I supposed to know you would blow up like that

Flaming bits, smoke, a lady named Zynn saved from your fiery rain

Foul, stinking Ooze, this day I won, a win, aha!

I will battle you again if I must

To prove that you just need to stay in your pot and be a good stew!

Fin