Discordant Verses: A Discordian Ode

Hail Eris, goddess of discord delightful!

Tricksome master of rhymes recited spiteful
When poets’ moored verses require explosive spark
She tosses them matches to self-immolate dark

Then from ashen syllabic ruins renewed

Discordant rhymes rewrite fully subdued

All odes once smoothly metered now stumble awry

Spilling hyperbole, nonsense and sigh upon sigh

Yes under Eris even couplets fracture

She fracks meter masters with chronic mania sure
Each tightly latched line soon comes agape

As chaos goddess stirs rebellion’s shape

Sublime goddess of contradiction sustained
She upsets all cabals by critics ordained

With one apple rolled in their perfect plan askew

She cackles watching orderly undone spew

No school of thought survives her side-eye slight

Each toppled down in absurdities’ blight

She Cherishes most the icon-toppling feat

Where learned Roads meet defeat

Hark! The hullabaloo of words upended!

Listen to lemmas with non-sequiturs blended!
Dictionary divas in upheaval swirl

As syntax gets surreal in the warp Eris does hurl

All prosody prim she pokes full of pratfalls

While handbooks of order she scrawls on walls

Poetry nowhere remains dry and dense

When Eris provides the lyrical nonsense

So O goddess of chaos charming the poets

With folly and frissons daring devotees show it!
Disrupt deadened verse, leak whimsy in the seams
Unbind bored bards until inspiration gleams!

Yes hail Lady Eris so playful in ploys

Whose apple of discord brings hazardous joys

For she knows under whimsy’s boon bards find

True depth of soul once decorum confined.