Tag Archives: nonsense rhyme

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 →

Posted in Africa, Fantasy, Humorous rhyme, Nonsense verse, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordplay | Tagged Colonialist, Monsters to Avoid, nonsense rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme | 9 Comments

From the Horse’s Mouth, Really Awfully.

Posted on October 4, 2014 by colonialist

“I hay chew,” said Harry the horse To Sue; Said Sue, “I ‘ay chew, too; of course I do! It’s straw dinner, ‘Arry; I fink we should marry! Don’t you?” © Colonialist October 2014 (WordPress)

Posted in Horses, Humour, Nonsense verse, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordplay | Tagged Colonialist, fun rhyme, funny poem, hay chew, horse sense, nonsense rhyme | 27 Comments

Following Instructions Really Awfully

Posted on April 29, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) Following the following the following (sorry, I got stuck) twenty simple instructions is … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, NaPoWriMo, nonsense rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme, twenty impossible poetic instructions | 52 Comments

Homophonic translation really awful

Posted on April 23, 2014 by colonialist

(Translate; Vertaal; Vertalen; Traduire; Übersetzung: μετάφραση: Tradução: Перевод; Traducción: )———-> (Click on Sidebar items on right for translations, to play Colonialist compositions, or to visit his writings etc.) Now the NaPoWriMo prompt calls for homophonic translation. One has to find … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Language, Nonsense verse, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, homophonic translation, NaPoWriMo, nonsense rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme | 52 Comments

Rhyme really awfully for the birds

Posted on April 3, 2014 by colonialist

(Piccies – Wiki’s) Colonialist April 2014 (WordPress)

Posted in Birds, Humour, Language, Nonsense verse, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordplay | Tagged bird call puns, Colonialist, emu-sing emus, ghost owl = barn owl, mourning doves, NaPoWriMo, nonsense rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme, turtle doves tortoise | 16 Comments

REALLY AWFUL COCKROACH RHYME

Posted on October 30, 2013 by colonialist

THE FRIENDLY COCKROACH Hi there! I’m Cocky – I’m a roach… Why do you shrink at my approach? Why is it you don’t like me moach? Why don’t you want me here? I’m inexpensive to maintain: Odd scraps; for … Continue reading →

Posted in Colonialist, verse, writing, music composition, fantasy, Africa, journal., Humour, Nature, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged cockroach, Colonialist, friendly cockroach, fun, funny rhyme, humour, nonsense rhyme, poem, Really Awful Rhyme, rhyme, verse | 30 Comments

Really Awful Holy Mackerel

Posted on September 30, 2013 by colonialist

Now once there was a mackerel, Of ancestry had lots; Her name goes way, way back – Carol – MacCarol shows she’s Scots. She wondered what there was entailed When at the end came ‘FIN’, And how the … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Language, Nonsense verse, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme, Satire | Tagged Colonialist, fisherel rhyme., Holy Mackerel, humour, nonsense rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme, satire, wordplay. | 17 Comments

REALLY AWFUL DOING IT RIGHT, AND PLANTING UP – AND I MEAN UP!

Posted on July 1, 2013 by colonialist

(Late entry for the SidevieW weekend theme) How can you go wrong when you’re doing it right? With driving in UK or SA you might! Because in these places one sticks to the left, Unless of existence you would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Gardens, Humour, Personal Journal, Photography, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, Doing it Right theme, funny rhyme, humour, nonsense rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme, vertical gardening pots, vertical planting information, wordplay. | 47 Comments

REALLY AWFUL TIME

Posted on July 1, 2013 by colonialist

(See sidebar for Translator, Music, Novels, Awards etc.) One of my endearing habits Every month, upon the first, Is the yelling out of ‘Rabbits!’ Though I do get roundly cursed! Second half of year, I spy now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, funny rhyme, humour, nonsense rhyme, Rabbits first of month, Really Awful Rhyme, Silly Verse., wordplay. | 25 Comments

REALLY AWFUL HELLO BALOO.

Posted on June 12, 2013 by colonialist

(See sidebar for Translator, Music, Novels, Awards etc.) A Hello Baloo* Bad noises will do Whenever it should meet you; It doesn’t subdue What it’s sending through If it should chance to greet you. The racket one hears Is bad … Continue reading →