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.
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Mabbergabbery
Once 'twas a slabbery eve,
With muppies memming in the vray;
But with a grap of the mimsy's freeve,
All mum tod the farrowy wray.
The mimsy murled a tale so rabber
Her children pripped their jummies tight.
For mimsy spoke of the mabbergabber,
Who stole jummies away at night.
"But fear not the mabbergabber, my loves,
With its rurling eyes and mipping teeth.
Fear not the grutterer or the scalding froves
Of the hertrum or the mickled yeeth."
"Oh mimsy but we are so ruckled with
Fears about the mabbergabber's murrack.
How can we sleep with morrid slith
Creeting through our reets and back?"
"My sweet mumblebeats, I will always be
Near to troddle the door and lig the mert.
Sleep well my yammerloves and cree
For you, tueling yoves, will never be hurt."