Double dactyls: Tu B’Shvat

Blowily, blowily,
New year for willow trees,
Oak trees and maples and
Cedars forbye.

15th of Sh’vat: a day
Arboricultural
(Or Sh’vat the 1st for the
House of Shammai).*

*as any fule kno, Hillel and Shammai disagreed as to the precise date of the new year for trees; if we followed Shammai, however, we’d have to call it Uh B’Shvat, which isn’t nearly so catchy

You can play too by posting in the comments! A reminder of the rules of the “dismally difficult” double dactyl:

1. There must be eight lines.
2. Lines 1-3 and 5-7 must each consist of a pair of dactyls (that is, dum-der-der dum-der-der).
3. Lines 4 and 8 must be choriambs (that is, dum-der-der-dum).
4. Lines 4 and 8 must rhyme.
5. Line 1 must be nonsense.
6. Line 2 must be the subject of the poem, ideally a name that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘Laurence Olivier’).
7. Line 6 must be a single word that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘cardiovascular’).

And my own past entries can be found here.