Leaf me alone.
Don’t bark at me like an angry dog
Don’t tell me to branch out or try and spruce me up.
Yew maple* me any way you wish
But I don’t want to go against my grain.
I like the roots I’ve got
And willow-er* my standards not a jot
(Though you wood say they’re low enough already).
I’m knot going to rowan* my life pining for you.
Don’t give me sage advice to make me poplar.
I’m alder than yew, your changes walnut* stick.
I have the balsa knot bough* before your Ivy League education
And I’ve found my grove,
Don’t blame me if I like acorny joke every now and then.
Yew can take that “holly-er than thou” attitude and shove it up your ash.
P.S. If I cedar* on my lawn your pining face, I’ll teak my dog and sequoia* your fruit.
*may pull
*will lower
*ruin
*will not
*the balls to not bow
*see there
*I’ll take my dog and sick (him on)
…I should hope at this point you know what my response to this is. I am in the latter of the responses you mentioned in the post.
AKA: *groan*
Very glad for your legend, though. I didn’t get the first two or the “the balls to not bow” part…
Bailey, save meeee Ensei’s dragging me into her pit of Touhou doooomm!!!
Do not be dragged my friend! Resist! Resist!
I thought that the legend might be useful. It’s good not to confuse people any more than is funny. *grin*
This is an awesome poem! I love this poem so much, I would have used it for my poem project but unfortunally, (I cannot spell) there is no author and it might be right in front of me but I can’t find it!
Well, you could say it was written by BRoses, which can be considered a “pen name.”