Category Archives: Nonsense verse

Seriously Sensible Flutters.

Posted on April 25, 2019 by colonialist

GloMoWriMo 2019 Day 25 ‘And now for today’s prompt I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a … Continue reading →

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Utter Noun Scents

Posted on April 21, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 21 Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates wild, surreal images. Try to play around with writing that doesn’t make formal sense, but which engages all the senses and involves dream-logic. Where … Continue reading →

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The Caws of Understanding Crows on You

Posted on April 14, 2019 by colonialist

GloMoWriMo Day 14 Prompt is as follows: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings. … Continue reading →

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The Knight’s Tail

Posted on January 10, 2019 by colonialist

                          In memory of a loyal knight Of the house of Yawk Who got an almighty fright One night when he dropped his fawk And under the table, … Continue reading →

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TWADDLE in Really Awful Rhyme

Posted on May 19, 2018 by colonialist

    I used the 98-word Twaddle challenge to start writing anything, stop when I thought I’d got to about 98, and then do a little fine-tuning, pruning and swooning:-       So twaddle we send our writing efforts … Continue reading →

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My Word, How Really Awful

Posted on April 29, 2017 by colonialist

A word from a poem should give rise to something written for GloPoWriMo Day 29 – the first and most distinctive one I thought of was ‘Jabberwock’ but I can’t labour that again completely. I’ll just bounce between Shakespeare, Carroll, … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Rhymes Without Reason: Riddic, Pleth, Fraig, Redge, and Zope

Posted on June 1, 2016 by colonialist

A riddic is not something you want to meet, Rid extremely fast such from the house! So bad, if with insult a louse you would greet, You would say to it, ‘Riddic, you louse!’   And always avoid coming up … Continue reading →

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Really Awfully Topsy-turvy Rhyme

Posted on February 17, 2016 by colonialist

(Read on at your own peril of wild puns;  each pair’ll savage your mental stability.) A bear is not bare but is covered in hair; While beers ale and arty aren’t Bruin; [1] When bears go out badgering one might declare … Continue reading →

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A Valiant Attempt; Really Awful Terzanelle and Jane.

Posted on April 16, 2015 by colonialist

Still-only-six-year-old R made a brave try at the 1500 metre swimming trial today in cold and rainy weather.  The distance was no problem to her, but she just can’t summon up enough speed yet to do it inside the required 40 … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Poetry

Posted on April 7, 2015 by colonialist

  (Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.)  So far this month, I think that you will find All of my stuff has most precisely rhymed, But now, for variation – … Continue reading →

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