Dum Poems - Poems about Dum

It seems there’s a certain melodious beat discovered reusing these metrical feet. You can’t help but tap it first slow, and then rapid: an odd syncopation that brings ears a treat. H/T to Ostrich Learning to Swim by Clive Culverhouse...

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’Twas a drummer who drummed on his drum using two fingers and his right thumb. To an anapest’s ear, it would sound pretty clear; to the rest, lacked a certain aplomb. ---------- jumped off a read of Brian Strand's A Limerick Historique...

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If you thought that it was tricky to write verse in anapest, I assure you, there are harder forms that leave you in arrest. When I stumbled on the present one, I thought it might be best To provide a short example, and let you fill in the rest. ————— This one is called a Fifteener, with 15 syllables...

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Meet Tweedle Dum and Tweedle-Dee Two of a kind they lived in a tree Way up high on the upper most branch Not afraid of heights but why take a chance I fail to see why they're living up there They don't have a bed, they don't have a chair Must be uncomfortable and hard on the bum Hope they're not bothered...

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There once was a lady from London Whose blouse inadvertently came undone Out popped this guy With two dark brown eyes And a jolly jiggle, dum-dee-um-dum...

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I was sitting inside the gazebo eating a hot dog watching the swans swim in the beautiful lake it came out of nowhere buzzing round the place tumbling and bumbling read to do bite and sting I hurried to my backpack to get my epi pen but already the swelling had begun I froze when...

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erratic affairs muddle mindsets confront life with unlike aspects can’t let the wiseacre tell a lie I cried the day the music died fractals repeat their eternal patterns like fairy tales forever and after chanciness of life unravels alter egos by-gone in travels early on pace your time deftly and scrawl your own bio wisely...

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Tweedledee And Tweedledum Hohoho.... A tweedledee and a tweedledum..... LGE case looked like a legal process by people so dumb... BN govmen wanted to make a capital case out of LGE.... They wanted to puncture his bubble of popularity with the masses.... And to sully his growing influence and reputation... With little Napoleans in place in all the nooks and corners of...

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Shut up! Go to Hell! Damn it! Yes, swears were coming from the dining room, and they were not pretty. I knew as soon as I heard them, whose voice it was. I rolled my eyes. Whose idea was it to have Sam watch Dum Dum? Yes, my husband's fifteen-year-old nephew had been keeping an eye...

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you are a shell god blows music of bliss you are a string god caresses green chords of love just be you let the god enter freely prepare to receive music flows clean up your shells tune up your strings god surprises be ready prepared live in this moment you cannot prepare too late god gone you cant dwell in yesterday dusted shells untuned strings god wont return be ready for the music each moment love is an ocean god...

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There once was a lady from London Whose blouse inadvertently came undone Out popped this guy With two dark brown eyes And a jolly jiggle, dum-dee-um-dum © Jack Ellison 2015...

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Meet Tweedle Dum and Tweedle-Dee Two of a kind they both lived in a tree Way high up on the upper most branch Not afraid of heights but why take a chance I fail to see why they're living up there They don't have a bed, they don't have a chair Must be uncomfortable and hard on the bum Hope they're not...

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Through the sandy paths of Mbaraegbu Egbu's menacing stature a spur on I balled through dusty Mbaraobom Bought agidi ocha at Mbaraicheku Unfulfilled,I waltzed pass Ndoru To Okpara Square,then Eleme Golden Tulip held no solace Rosie,a snooker consolation I wanted more Emptiness,my gratification Then,you nimbly came Greatness in physique was not your gift But your brains over boiled! That,I saw(I know you didn't know) Our meeting was like Bonnie...

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Tweedle-dum and twiddle-dee-dee! Fiddle-faddle and fiddle-dee-dee! Now who can make sense of that silly verse? Now that I think on it, I've written much vurse! Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired (c) All Rights Reserved...

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Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are two friends of mine. They hung out with dear Alice. They knew her in her prime. They smoked some dope, least that's the hope, in caterpillar time, oh, tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, they are two friends of mine. Mr. Dum loved the Cheshire cat Mr. Dee the Jabberwocky, both of them shunned the Hatter, he made the bitterest tea. Why Dad...

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