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Lewis Caroll is one of my favourite Poets and Jabberwocky one of my favourite poems. I like the use imagination and inventiveness and the use of made up words.

Sardines On the Sand

Sardines on the Sand

     Two Sardines danced hand in hand
     At their wedding upon the sand
     As a Herring played the violin.
     A portly porpoise clothed in grey
     Greeted guests from far away.

     A pair of Cod beheld the scene,
     The bride was dressed in seaweed green
     And an Octopus sang a gliforal song
     As the assembly wept into oyster shells,
     While an elderly Crab played whale bone bells.

     A gumley Anchovy bore the ring
     As the Vicar asked the choir to sing.
     Then a choir of Kipper sang on the strand,
     And throngs of Mullet from far and wide
     Danced by that strong mantigious tide.

     Then there came a flumifinous roar
     As the tide surged upon that shore
     And all the party were swept away.
     All on that bright framtitious day. 

         19/08/16

       For the contest 'In the Style of my Favourite Poet.
           Sponsored by The Seeker
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Allison Avatar
August 24, 2016 at 8:27 AM
I am in awe of your creativity - love the imaginative words you invented - I think Tommy will like this one Barry! Good luck in the contest:-) hugs Jan xx
Stebbings Avatar
August 25, 2016 at 3:20 AM
Thank you very much, Jan. Barry.
Trifiatis Avatar
August 20, 2016 at 8:19 AM
Delightful writing someone has to be a renown fisherman to know all this! Enjoyed enormously your fun write dear, Barry! A 7!
Stebbings Avatar
August 20, 2016 at 2:21 PM
Thank you, Demetrios. Pleased you enjoyed it and thank you for the 7. I am not a fisherman; just some research and a vivid imagination. Barry.
Turner Avatar
August 19, 2016 at 1:17 PM
Barry, this is just fun! You had me laughing from the very beginning. This has to be a 7 for creativity.
Stebbings Avatar
August 20, 2016 at 5:04 AM
Thank you, Daniel. Pleased you enjoyed it and thank you for the 7. Barry
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