A Spoof Poem

Robin Usher, Hungary

Dr Robin Leslie Usher Ph.D wrote a doctoral thesis `Jungian Archetypes in the work of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein`, 1992. He has been a teacher of English language and literature since 1994. He has taught in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Oman and Libya. He is a science fiction writer, 'All For Naught Orphan Ufonaut' in Shelter of Daylight, Sam's Dot Publishing (2010). He published in the British SF academic journal Foundation, `Male And Female He Created Them Both: Beyond The Archetypes` (112), and the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research`s Educatio, `Learning To Study`. E-mail: robika2001@yahoo.co.uk

The poem is a spoof on `The Wreck Of The Hesperus` by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44654/the-wreck-of-the-hesperus).

`Emberek of the Hearse Bearers`, is multilingual because `emberek` means `men` in Hungarian, while `heat` sounds like the Hungarian word for `faith`, etc. However, it`s quite funny poem as it is.

Emberek Of The Hearse Bearers

Emberek of the Hearse Bearers,
Rode the summer sea;
With a mien ever cloudier,
And a daughter who wasn`t his, Key.

Her eyes were Greece as the fairy Ajax,
Her cheeks like the crack of dawn,
And her breasts pink as the swee` peas,
That `ope in the mouth of May.

`Yes` erday was a golden wring,
The clouds were weeping slow!
`Rek got string from a local
Spar supermarket - bound her to his toe.

A Greek sea peach at dawn,
A fisherman`s trousers` half mast,
Observed her bod` and her virgin`s hair,
Flashed on a roiling spar.

The salt was heat upon her bust,
The sweat burned on her lid;
And her hair blonde to no one,
As her pillows fell and rose.

Emberek of the Hearse Bearers,
In the moon and - `Yes, snow!
Christ saved us all for a death like his,
By the teeth of Emberek`s toe!`

- O` Bin Brighter