LEWIS CARROLL ' JABBERWOCKY' from thru the looking glass
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Her jabberwocky gibberish angered me
My irritation became mammoth disproportioned
She ignores all facts
Picking and choosing who to believe
Making up new “alternative facts”
Endorsing and quoting an entertainment channel
Which should be sued for using the word news
We have all been warned, but the sign was there
Staring in her face,
and nothing else was
The food could be drugged
But the sign said “eat me” and “drink me” and “be me”
So Alice did what she was told,
Being a curious girl.
It was her first act of compliance
Could it save her from the rabbit hole?
She was now in a world of small and tall,
life and strife, Tweedledee and Tweedledum
It was a jazzy place, and her eyes were moving fast
Trying to take in what her imagination was bringing
Was she on cocaine then? Heroin?
Let’s see, back in that day
I am going to guess opium….
It is a jabberwocky of a fix to be facing
the Queen of Hearts who is yelling
“Off with her head!” meaning you.
Soon Alice is in the full throes of imagination land
glad she followed the white rabbit.
Pink Cheshire cat, smiling, as she floats
in and out of two worlds.
We have all been warned, but the sign was there
Staring in her face,
and nothing else was
The food could be drugged
But the sign said “eat me” and “drink me” and “be me”
So Alice did what she was told,
Being a curious girl.
It was her first act of compliance
Could it save her from the rabbit hole?
She was now in a world of small and tall,
life and strife, Tweedledee and Tweedledum
It was a jazzy place, and her eyes were moving fast
Trying to take in what her imagination was bringing
Was she on cocaine then? Heroin?
Let’s see, back in that day
I am going to guess opium….
It is a jabberwocky of a fix to be facing
the Queen of Hearts who is yelling
“Off with her head!” meaning you.
Soon Alice is in the full throes of imagination land
glad she followed the white rabbit.
Pink Cheshire cat, smiling, as she floats
in and out of two worlds.
I speak jabberwocky for fun,
on occasion making up a silly word,
something strange and never heard .
A way to step into a make-believe world,
keeping secret codes within my mind,
they are a challenge to look up and find.
Throwing a curve ball to all readers
as Lewis Carroll wrote in his poem,
words covered with meaningless foam.
A spray of mysticism and delight,
paving the way to an unreal world
where language is tossed and sworld.
Joyful,
Jarringly,
Jaunty
J,
Juggling
Juicy
Jiggly,
Jumping
Jars of
Jello,
Jabberwocky
J.
Justifiably
Jealous of
Jibes
Jokingly
Jested by
James,
Joe.
Jingly
Jangly
J
'Twas later in the afternoon
When the work of the day was done:
Many sat waiting for the moon,
Idly twiddling their thumbs.
'Beware the Boar of Dumm, my son!
The eyes that dull, the yawns that tire,
Beware the slowing steps, do run
Or to great things, you'll not aspire.'
He took his hardy tome in hand:
His father's words he did then heed --
So climbed he up into a tree,
There he began to read.
And there the hours sped quickly past
'Till the last light of day did fade
And when he closed his book at last
A discovery was made!
The Boar of Dumm! Beneath the tree!
Unable to reach him, it fell
Onto its side, and there it died,
And thus lifted the spell.
'And hast thou beat the Boar of Dumm?
Oh tell me, for it must be true!
For the ones it takes are many,
Those who defeat it, few.'
'Twas later in the afternoon
When the work of the day was done:
The shouts of joy did ring out soon,
For o'er the Boar he had won.
Dedicated to the genius of Lewis Caroll & C S Lewis
Alice & Narnia live always in my mind
Shane
Claws
Burbling
Jaws that bite
Jabberwocky
Slain
Jabberwocky Redux
After reading too much Aquinas
Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet leapt out of a tree?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
Would an addax in Denmark gyrate
if an emu in Sweden bore freight?
Or an eland in Chile complain
if jerboas in Goa refrain?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
For really I thought ‘twas the onager taught
the aphid the tenor of Twi, and
that Gascony scops with Norwegians eloped
when Danes had lepers to tea.
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
Donal Mahoney
Other than the slight ringing in my ears
The only other sound I hear is the
Computers low droning inner gears.
Monotonous sounds that drive me a
Little crazy at times; background noises
That become deafening after awhile
Especially sitting in quietness
Or rather semi-quietness. Still, I’ll
Never get used to these subtle noises.
I think, perhaps, I am a little mad
If that’s possible; I don’t hear voices
Like a bug-house lunatic, God forbad!
I must be nuts though, to sit here alone
Typing jabberwocky verses at home.
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