I took a college
spelling test
to see which words
I spelled the best.

When morning came,
I rose and drest.
I told myself,
"Don't be so strest!"

But, after all,
if I regrest,
I might leave scholars
less imprest.

So I exhaled,
bravely addrest
the worries that I
then possest.

I forged ahead,
my thoughts exprest
on words that
sometimes felt supprest.

Reckoned to spell,
but reassest
that most were wrong
(and quite opprest!)

I surrendered to
that spelling test
to stick with words
I spelled the best -

like joyed and peaced,
and loved and blest...
simple and certain
when once profest.