Gealousy with the Greenest of intention
56What is a nonsense poem?
Nonsense poems or nonsense verse are words thrown together in a shape that seems to have no meaning, yet, perhaps it does.
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Jabberwocky, for example!
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Gealousy with the Greenest of intention
Gealousy with the greenest of intention
Jealousy, did i ever once mention
that vilest of snakes slithering toward you
that sweet solemn smile sucking dope who adores you
ready to twist as your ship hits the harbor
quick with the wit when your words cannot harm her
Gealousy with the greenest of intention
Jealousy, did i ever once mention
it came on me fast like the speed of a dragon
with fire leering lightning, a racecar-ing wagon
a drag and a druzzle a dig sent me quaky
i knew what it was cuz my blood got all shaky
I'm the Mistress of Green, subject to none
Bombastic and blaming... second to just One.
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Great emulation of Lewis Carroll, Storytellersrus. You certainly have an appreciation for the wonderful and quirky! Thank you for sharing.
You're incorrigible, Story! This hub brought to mind an old nursery rhyme:
Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such sport
And the dish ran away with the spoon
Very Nice! Reminded me of John Lennon's writing which was also influenced by Lewis Carroll:
Snore Wife and Some Several Dwarts
Once upon upon in a dizney far away - say three hundred year agoal if you like-there lived in a sneaky forest some several dwarts or cretins; all named - Sleezy, Grumpty, Sneeky, Dog, Smirkey, Alice? Derick - and Wimpey. Anyway they all dug about in a diamond mind, which was rich beyond compere. Every day when they came hulme from wirk, they would sing a song - just like ordinary wirkers - the song went something like - 'Yo, ho! Yo, ho! it's off to wirk we go!' - which is silly really considerable they were comeing hulme. (Perhaps ther was slight housework to be do.)
One day howitzer they (Dwarts) arrived home, at aprodestant six o'cloth, and who? - who do they find? - but only Snore Wife, asleep in Grumpty's bed. He didn't seem to mine. 'Sambody's been feeding my porrage!' screams Wimpey, who was wearing a light blue pullover. Meanwife in a grand Carstle, not so a mile away, a womand is looging in her daily mirror shouting, 'Mirror mirror on the wall, whom is de fairy in the land.' which doesn't even rhyme. 'Cassandle!' answers the mirror. 'Chirsh O'Malley' studders the womand who appears to be a Queen or a witch or an acorn.
haha, good ones all! Can't forget Edward Lear when it comes to nonsense... here is verse one of The Jumblies:
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
patful says:
4 months ago
Loved your lines on Gealousy. Very visual, flowing, yet compact and under control. The slithering snake, the fire-breathing dragon...what a picture!
One of the things I love about the Lewis Carroll selection you mentioned is the sheer sound of the words. Kids love Dr. Seuss because the sounds are so funny. They don't ask him to always make sense.