LOST CAUSE- A GLOSSARY'S EXERCISE

"Lost cause!?"

He responded in a tone so acerbic
For a moment I thought he spoke angry Arabic

He walked towards the ship's rear; the aft
The ship was so badly wrecked she looked more like a metal raft

The harbour she anchored at was an unfortunate aping
For he took her look; a picture of fallen railings

But his reaction to both their sights was aplomb
Even though he sounded like a ticking bomb

He looked like a farmer with an orchard of arbor
Only waiting for the vines to grow into their armour

Or like Frank.A when he discovered Argosy
But needed adventures of writers announcing

The metal raft and wrecked harbour were built at Avalon
And they were his strider for an Aragon

For he immediately named them "BARD"
He saw something poetic in their ruin as he stood in the yard

He felt he would sail with them to Bataan
I felt he should instead pass on the baton

I thought his thoughts towards the wreck were an old man's bauble
But I chose my words carefully as I started to burst his bubble

But I didn't know they were already beleaguered
Oh! The disaster in beleaguering the already beleaguered!

After much trouble I said to him, "lets get a bier"
For this dream I thought was dead to a buyer

I wasn't buying it, I felt BARD was a load of bilge
What's worse than building castles in the air? Building castles in bilge

I am no bosun
But I can see Bard is a lost cause, I won't put my money there, I'm no baboon

Maybe I would if Bard was still a bucko
But to do it now would make me a cuckoo

I tried to explain that Bard was no bucolic
He ranted and called me a choleric

He was temperamental

So I took it as the military's call on bugle
For this war on fantasy dream was a burgle

He stole away with it from his military days in America's buttle

But this isn't the America he knew, running a shipping company now is a lost battle

RUNNING IT WITH BARD WOULD BE A LOST CAUSE

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I was reading a book today so I decided to be creative with the glossary.

I picked words (from A-B only) that I wasn't familiar with and used the meaning that the glossary provided in context to their use in the author's poetry.

The book is;
Poet/Lyricist the aesthetics of verse - The L Ron Hubbard Series

Maybe tomorrow I'll do C-D