Best Nonce Poems
For the NonceI am feeling cumbrance
for the nonce
ease my temples
settle me in fingerbreadths...
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Categories:
nonce, i love you, longing,
Form:
For The NonceDripples When many drops SPLASH in a puddle and mottles the reflection ...
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Categories:
nonce, celebration, encouraging, humor, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought of her grief,
believing true love is a myth,
with hope as...
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Categories:
nonce, creation, depression, divorce, farewell,
Form:
Sonnet
A Whole New WordEach 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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Categories:
nonce, word play, words,
Form:
Verse
Dabble DactylsI have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos should give the dabble dactyl a wide berth and also not sow...
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Categories:
nonce, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form:
Double Dactyl