“And now, the prompt. (As always, the prompt is optional). Today I challenge you to write a poem that uses at least five of the following words:
owl
generator
abscond
upwind
squander
clove
miraculous
dunderhead
cyclops
willowy
mercurial
seaweed
gutter
non-pareil
artillery
salt
curl
ego
rodomontade
elusive
twice
ghost
cheese
cowbird
truffle
svelte
quahog
bilious”
OK, how about all 28? And who says it has to make much sense? I had to add 44 words to them to do it, though.
Oh, how miraculous the prompt this gutter dunderhead –
This non-pareil elusive ghost – has offered us instead;
Our generator of ideas wants us to squander time
In bilious ego-building rodomontade all in rhyme!
Must owl abscond upwind with a svelte cowbird, willowy?
Or cyclops curl a truffle, which becomes artillery?
The whole thing’s twice absurd, for qwahog served with salt and cheese,
And some mercurial seaweed, with a clove, would never please!
© Colonialist April 2013 (WordPress)
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Bwohahaha! *falls off chair and gets mauled by the fat ginger cat*
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Nice take on this prompt. I love the third line. And I’m still going with, we’re both really brave!
God Bless,
Donna
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I’m quite happy with the idea of bravery. Let’s design a badge. The motto can be ‘Nobis impossibilia sunt verba miscerent’!
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Well done, Col. You’re always upwind of the challenge, and cyclops it on the dunderhead. 🙂
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The last cyclops I had that got dunderheaded never recovered, though! Oh dear, in retrospect I definitely should have had some strife to go with that truffle.
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Hehehe 😆
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Writing an awful rhyme is bad enough and to use all of those words would require a literary genius, even if it doesn’t really make sense 😉
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Delighted to find out that I am a literary genius – and it does make some kind of sense, actually, in an insulting kind of way!
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I blame not being able to make sense of it from being zonked out 😉
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So says the jabberwocky in the grimble groves
With all manner of slives and toves.
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You might enjoy this:
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I did!
Er, that is to say, I was considerably taken with the profundity of the observations and the universally inherent accuracy of the theoretical propositions postulated.
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I thought you might say just that! 😀
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Quite so – but Jabberwocky actually told a story, albeit one featuring cruelty to animals! 🙂
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And let’s not forget the Walrus and the Carpenter, as recited by Tweedledum and Dee.
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
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Nor, indeed, overlook the epic battle of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, as rendered inconclusive by a crow.
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Good heavens!!!
Fairly boggles the mind!!
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Perhaps ‘unfairly’ is more accurate? 🙂
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Interesting poem 🙂
Don’t know if you do awards Col…
I have nominated you for an award 🙂
http://hopethehappyhugger.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/feel-the-love/
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Thanks for the nomination – I really appreciate it!
I have decided, though, that I would prefer to concentrate on any that come my way (I hope) that are, in effect, ‘writing prizes’.
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thats fine.
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