William C Ross’s poem Word’s Worth appeared as part of Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words in September. As you know from reading his previous writings, William sometimes writes poems using the Dictionary.com word of the day as a prompt. The word that set him to writing this poem was “quixotic.”
El Ingenioso Hidalgo
By William C Ross
In daydreams, I have traversed lands exotic
And performed deeds noble and quixotic.
With jousts that made the armor rattle,
I have ridden Rocidante into battle,
While Sancho Panza chose to pass
And watched while sitting on his ass.
If with faulty memory you’re trying to grapple,
The name of the beast Sancho sat on was Dapple.
With Dulcinea I have spent the night,
And faced the morrow, one spent knight.
I have traveled across the fields of fame
And burnished the good Don Quixote name.
But no matter what roads a dream does take,
There comes a day when a knight must awake.
I think I’ll just let that landscape be.
What has a windmill ever done to me?
Very clever!
A story of old, but new.