Ms. Barclay has randomly selected the following seven words for me to incorporate into a poem:

Desirable: wanted or wished for as being an attractive, useful, or necessary course of action.
Opera bouffe: a French comic opera, with dialogue in recitative and characters drawn from everyday life.
Pirouette: an act of spinning on one foot, typically with the raised foot touching the knee of the supporting leg.
Turquoise: a greenish-blue color.
Anticline: a ridge-shaped fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope downward from the crest.
Couch grass: a coarse grass with long creeping roots, which can be troublesome in lawns and gardens.
Ibex: a wild goat with long, thick ridged horns and a beard, found in the mountains of the Alps, Pyrenees, central Asia, and Ethiopia.

All definitions are from the Oxford Dictionary.

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We all perform for Mother
In her icky buggy opera bouffe
And we ask why she bothers
And she deigns to utter

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That it’s not for her,
Not just for her
Say that we aren’t enthralled
And she will cease her thespian ways

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Tell me, is it not delightful
To watch a rock-toed ibex
Pirouette from one anticline
To the star-apart next

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For this creature to munch
Crunch bunches of lunch
In the coarse couch grass
That litters and lunges

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Mother laughs her stormy torrents
As she asks if the turquoise
Waves and skies warrant
An explanation worthy of noise

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Mother’s desirable colosseum
Hardly entertains just one
When she hum hum hums
Her earthly lullabies to her sons