Acronymic Acrostic Acceptance

[bairnsidhe]

 In honor of Asexual Awareness Week, have an acrostic poem!  You can also go read another of my Ace Pride works, Asexy Honey.
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Time and again we

Hear the silent cries

Echoing harshly under

A jubilant chorus of denial

In all intent pure of slander

Simple in its ignorance and

Folly evergreen in its forgetfulness

Of the rights of fallen in fights it has not bled into

Red with love and rage and furious passion  

Although many innately, are not excessively

Roused by such emotion, better then that we

Open up our minds to thought and hearts to the

Acceptance of these other forms of tenderness

Neighborly and kind, giving, when others seem to

Demand offerings of our flesh to sate their purge

And yet the silent heart’s screams go unheeded

Calls of “save us” and “brothers, sisters, please”

Echo yet again under the bright cacophony of prideful noise

Comments

[mdlbear]

Nicely done

[bairnsidhe]

Thank you! I do like this one. Of course, I like acrostic poems in general, they touch my code-maker heart.

[thnidu]

Agreed. I also like the shape of it on the page.

Teeny edit: "it's" should be "its", both times— much as we write "yours" and "hers", not "your's" and "her's". "It's" is only for "it is".

Speaking of code-makers, I highly recommend the book Between Silk and Cyanide, a memoir by Leo Marks (of the family of Marks & Spencer, booksellers) of being a codemaker in WW2.

[bairnsidhe]

>>Agreed. I also like the shape of it on the page.<<

Thank you. Acrostic poems do that, where the shape is a part of the art.

>>Teeny edit: "it's" should be "its", both times— much as we write "yours" and "hers", not "your's" and "her's". "It's" is only for "it is".<<

G*dammit, I hate typo gremlins. They always get me on stuff I actually hate seeing on other people's work, rather than on things I don't care about. Thank you for alerting me, I've removed those pesky apostrophes.

>>Speaking of code-makers, I highly recommend the book Between Silk and Cyanide, a memoir by Leo Marks (of the family of Marks & Spencer, booksellers) of being a codemaker in WW2.<<

I will add that to my list! Thank you, I love learning new things.