Guarding orgasms

Guarding orgasms

Day 14: The video resource for the day is this recording of Taylor Mali performing his poem “The The Impotence of Proofreading.”  It's very funny and worth a look to understand the prompt.  

 There many words in English that sound and look like other words. Write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings.

Anyone who knows me, will know this is anathema to me - I can't bear misspellings and incorrect grammar - but I've tried to give it a go.  Like the words of the gendarme in 'Allo 'Allo, it may need to be read 'allowed' to make sense! 
Have yew heather licked clothesly
At the flours in yore guarding?
Itch won is a compleat whirled.
If your very licky
Yawl sea orgasms youth never scene beef ore,
Beatles, spindles, a tinny be,
Bussing quite lea,  omnivorously, 
There sew small, yew mite mist them
Butt, wrist insured, their they're
Twerking a whey, tooth bread pudding 
From balloon too balloon. 



[And here's the translation,  just in case you need it:

Have you ever looked closely
At the flowers in your garden?
Each one is a complete world.
If you're very lucky
You'll see organisms you've never seen before,
Beetles,  spiders,  a tiny bee,
Buzzing quietly,  obliviously.
They're so small,  you might miss them,
But rest assured,  they're there
Working away,  to spread pollen
From bloom to bloom.  ]



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