Rising Up and Away

Ascendency tends to
ward off transcendence,
blending pendants with
penance, say pedants at 
Penzance. Tips ice
berg at a compounding
twenty percent, glaring
at gerunds to bus the
fable properly or risk
going sans staff
zeal. Conceal flares
until the high
way calls layer
clay a sediment
rudiment with
out reason
or past.