O Trebuchet

(sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum / O Christmas Tree)

O Trebuchet
O Trebuchet
How graceful is your swing arm
Your beauty hides your destructive plight
Of lethal payload hurled with might
O Trebuchet
O Trebuchet
How graceful is your swing arm

Image: Scale model trebuchet in the Exhibition of Catapults and Siege Machines in Toledo, Spain (by Ron Rowland October 15, 2021).

Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Poetics : Passions Stamped on Lifeless Things, where Merril is hosting and asked us to write about a rite about a historical artifact.

27 thoughts on “O Trebuchet”

  1. Ah….one can think of the hatred, or fear, or anger that this “graceful swing arm” has hurled. If inanimate objects could talk….do you suppose it would say something like….WAIT! Do you understand what you are making me do????

  2. It’s wonderful
    It’s wonderful
    Your poetry is wonderful
    I read it through one time and then
    I had to read it once again;
    so if I may,
    may I just say
    I really dug your Trebuchet!

    1. O Other Ron
      O Other Ron
      Your reply’s quite awesome
      I’m glad you dig my trebuchet
      He will not hurl things your way
      One more time
      I say sublime
      Your reply’s quite awesome

  3. During the time of the plague, an army laying siege to a walled city would catapult dead plague victims’ corpses over the walls to infect the defenders. It’s a wonderful world.

  4. Oh merrily we smash their wall
    Oh verily we slay them all
    Now you’ve got me doing it!
    Fun take on the prompt. That’s a beautiful room that beautiful machine sits in.

    1. Thanks Glenn. Which reminds me, I need to look through these siege machine photos to see if any are appropriate for SSMP.

    1. Thanks Dwight. Makes you ponder how something that moves so elegantly can be both beautiful and destructive.

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