Drum roll please.
Poetry save the world
If we set the Iliad to rap
sparked it up a bit
if we had Rhianna and Shady duet.
It would be a hit.
If the A&R men recorded it
and the radio put it on rotation
played it on every station
it would be a hit
The kids would all be humming it
the hipsters would be strumming it
the world would then improve a bit
it would be a hit.
Then the kids would learn the words of it
would sing it every day a bit
and bit by bit they’d understand it
it would be a hit.
Shady and Rhianna would be laureates
poetry would be cool a bit
the world would be saved by it
if The Iliad was a hit.
©Dave Kavanagh 2016
Love this !
Nice light touch, good message, fun rhymes.
In a strange way, the Illiad & Odyssey etc. actually ARE pop hits !
(Still on the charts after several millenia…)
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Thank you Andrew. Yes they are indeed hits ☺
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