Call me petty, call me trite
but you know what? try as I might…
I can't skip past a word misspelled,
and vanquish views that I have held,
from times gone by when, as a kid
a word spelled wrong, well God forbid?
So I grew up and learned to write..
Not right- but write - now get it right,
I knew the difference between
their and there and bean and been.
I came to trust nobody who
could not correctly spell too to…
So when I read a point of view
on something serious and true,
if authors get their grammar wrong
then their view's really not worth a song!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Lodigiana. Magnificent and not magniffescent! A poem both the masters Hilaire Belloc and Roald Dahl who have enjoyed reading and then rereading. A treasure for me to find and take a rich poetic delight from. It made me both laugh and smile. 5 stars but its not about the numbers, its about the words. Words spelt correctly of course. Take care Lodigiana and keep writing for I'll keep reading. Shaun.x.