Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills Wilde Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Was a terribly interesting Irish child
He'd read the Classics, the Bible too
The strangest dressed in the poetry zoo
He'd a German governess, French nursemaid
As an adult he loved to pose and parade
His room was bedecked with a peacock feather
Lilies, blue china: Oh, he was clever
Punchsaid, he's Wilde, but his poetry's tame
That was before he'd won his fame
His soul was a lute all winds could play
The dandy, the epicure of his day
His face was his autobiography
Jailed for his sexual proclivity
He resisted everything but temptation
A wayward genius: an exclamation
Mark written beside society's norms
Wilde was broken by censure's storms