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# Poetic Inflation
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/poetic-inflation/
- Published: 2022-05-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: When villanelles were villainous and limericks laborious and sonnets were so sonorous and name poems notorious and haikus harkened to the day and syllables still counted and April poems spoke of May
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

When villanelles were villainous  
and limericks laborious  
and sonnets were so sonorous  
and name poems notorious  
and haikus harkened to the day  
and syllables still counted  
and April poems spoke of May

and prices were discounted