Ponetry

by The Letter J

Best Pony Vol. 4 – Spike

Poor Spike, so often you're forgot.
Your friends have fun, but you do not.
While they're on their adventurous sprees,
Twi leaves you home to clean the tree.

She's always got you shelving books.
She does not see your annoyed looks
When after your cleaning success,
She goes and makes another mess.

You check the lists, you watch the pets.
You cook, you clean, you work, you sweat.
You write letters and send them out,
As assistant you are devout.

Your loyalty is unsurpassed.
(You'd make a real good Rainbow Dash.)
Without you where would Twilight be?
Well let us take a look and see.

You helped Twilight retrieve her crown.
You helped her up when she got down.
Without you she'd have failed her quest
And one very important test.

The Crystal Heart, she had to find.
But she found herself in a bind.
And soon it was all up to you
To give that evil king his due.

These things and more you've gladly done
For the one who could call you “son.”
But she is not the only one
Who you have been helping a ton.

You helped save Rarity from dogs
And AJ from some lupine logs.
You played piano for Pinkie,
And wrote Rainbow's biography.

You're not just a purple and green
Pack animal or fax machine.
No, Spike, my friend, if you ask me,
You are, in fact, the best pony.

(Or dragon, as the case may be.)

Author's Note:

Spike is best everything he is.

Comments

[pegasistershorty]

wow you are good at this

[DARKPHANTOM13]

That we agree.

[The Letter J]

3276133
Thank you. And I also thank you for being the first one to fave something I've written here.

3276139
The more I see of Spike, the more I realize just how awesome he is. I think Equestria Girls was what really sold me on him.

[horizon]

3281521
Poetry is underappreciated indeed. Although the Pony Verse collaboration did briefly hit the featurebox (thanks to nine authors cross-promoting it, as well as an EqD feature), time after time poetry gets ignored; Melt, which I think is one of the best things I've written, has a fraction of the views of my other stories.

Different is good. You really ought to read through Pony Verse, just to get a sense of the vast variety of styles that poetry can take — there are some real gems in there. (My own Lagniappe is fairly close in meter to your usual style, though it uses a staggered two-beat/three-beat rhythm. My favorites in the collection are On Pegasi and on the way home.)

Best,
H

[The Letter J]

3281648
Well, it looks like I've got a few more things to read around here. My "Read Later" list is getting a tad bit ridiculous.

My usual style tends to default to iambic tetrameter, though looking back I realize that only two of these are iambic tetrameter. Actually, with all the others I think I just went with whatever sounded good regardless of meter. Oh well.

Thanks,
J

[pegasistershorty]

3276901 youre welcome! i love the chocolate rain

[Ausbrony]

Spike is indeed awesome, and I seem to have a habit of forgetting him in my own stories...

Sorry Spike.

[The Letter J]

3556018
It seems that a lot of people forget about Spike in stories that aren't specifically about him. But without him, I'm pretty sure that Twilight would have failed many more times. Would she have even given a second thought to making friends in Ponyville if Spike hadn't encouraged her?