Challenge
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.'
This is a piece taken from Lewis Carol's "Jabberwocky", one of my favorite poems of all time. Even though the poem is written in gibberish, with words from Carol's own imagination, it still manages to convey meaning and capture a strong tone. Poems don't have to make sense to be enjoyable.
Write your own poem in gibberish, but try to capture a certain tone, funny, solemn, urgent, mysterious.
If it has a rhythm or meter, all the better. But most importantly, have fun! 100 coins to the winner.
A kid’s morning sonnet.
She smaterat on the bombelertone
until her mother called her for breakfast.
Angela! Come hither, dear and get rone,
before the bezzelwads become cold fast.
Angela scedoodled down the steep stairs
and swooped into the grimmelstead swiftly.
She couldn't wait to demorscalize bare
Her plate of bezzelwads with the mifmy.
The mifmy and bezzelwads didn't last
But five miscrundlebids before she boomed.
Oh my! I can't believe I'm so flubast!
Time to grifmumblefledfly off to school.
While her day was pleasantly smartskidore.
She couldn't wait to smaterat once more.
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