Best Galumph Poems

The Bishops bathe in Babylon
while Princes, prancing on the lawn,
watch Queen deflowered, pale and wan.
            The King dares not defend her.
The Horsemen, holding broken reins
the Morning of the Hurricanes,
sigh “it’s no use, it’s all...

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Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must think 'nonce words' are all words for the birds!
There's googobs...

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Celebrate humility with the agility and amiability
Ensconced in the sublime civility facility in salvation city
As God grants you nobility, versatility and mobility

To scale hallowed heights
To absorb the simplicity and centrality of sumptuous sights
Devoid of pesky plights and feeble fights

When your own efforts at bolstering and...

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“Shining brillering?”

(1)
Shining brillering as the sunferms fled,
And all the flibbly wibblys were dead.
The phileous metmats were duperful,
Same was with the kallish oxbull. 

(2)
Maybe the fabuful hunhun rats thought,
As they were knardly taught,
That flobbly mavetures were doof,
And that monstrousome mackly were aloof.

(3)
“Have you conquered the marlands?”
“The...

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I have a strange malady
curiously effecting me
for I am very susceptible
to words of a variety

Words like cushlamachree
or hobbledehoy
give me such joy...
that my brain begins burbling
at a fantastic rate
things like bamboozle, bumfuzzle
blatteroon, and bombinate!
Bogged down in boondoggled
bedraggled, beware
I'm not making sense
and I really don't care!

Gushing galoot,...

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Advance and dance towards destiny
Galumph
Defy the lie and cry of scrutiny
Triumph 

Over hurdles seen and unseen
Drive and dive to arrive
At the intersection where a queen
Awaits your appearance as you strive

To breach odds stacked against success
Meant to land in caloused hands
That have toiled and moiled to...

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Before our feet touched the ground
And love was asked to run, walk, but not fly
And it task to trust that which we could not see,
But only sense and feel
And dance without music, 
And against the channel of the wind

Before we could feel our hearts
Beat violently...

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Stand for your beliefs 
Despite tribulations and blues
Worry not about physical, psychological or metabolic reliefs
But defend to the hilt the values

Defining, refining and buttressing your personality and character
From infancy to adulthood
Where values and beliefs are a factor
In enhancing the attitude, habitude and altitude

You deserve and...

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Written: January 26, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer "Time and tide wait for no man,"
                         ...

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Sometimes with neither rhyme nor reason
We chew insanity and regurgitate vanity
Ensnaring our souls in a pesky prison
Where we trap humanity in an insidious inanity

With a passion so overwhelming
We galumph in an empty triumph
From which we emerge screaming and squirming
When horrors and terrors galumph

Daring us to...

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Gaze into eyes of defeat and daze him
Knocking out the swagger he flaunts
Ensuring no longer can he trim
To size your awesome arsenal as he taunts

Midgets and Gullivers alike
Trampling their toes, crumpling their pride
Crushing their every effort to manifest his dislike
For the courage and temerity they...

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The Front Window Cogitation
By Sy Roth

Observed the others drowning in their tears.
A pasty rain inks the front window
Sad remnants of a broken sky in Kandinsky splashes 
Marked on an ancient, bubble-blown glass. 

Outside cars distorted,
People amble in sodden abandonment, 
Shuffling along with the meanderings of...

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In my childhood
they 
impressed on me
not to galumph,
lest I be typed
in stereo
as my eternal twin,

and yet, 
somehow it pleases me
to see that you 
are now
constrained to know
that I will go
galumphing off
into the nevermore. 
           ...

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Written: January 24, 2025 For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand 
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In the galumph of morning breath 
a chandelier of dew, 
Barely inching through the...

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Hedgehog, O hedgehog
dear spiny, meek and mousy poppet.
In England
where the tickly grass grows
greener
we galumph in our rubber boots
up to your little
Hobbit nests
beneath the thorny bushes
were you rests.

We the ever scampy
nippers
fill tin cups with wriggly worms
leave then there
by your dinky
mossy dells.

All the pricky hogs
come from near...

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