Home » Poems » Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky Poems

Vermilion, Maybe

A parrot, a toucan,
a horse’s head,
and a girl in red shoes
follow a manikin
walking like an Egyptian
into the room
where I used to dream.
None of them speak.
They just rearrange
the brushes on the table
and wait for me to notice
what I left undone.

The Virgin of Guadalupe
smiles at their shenanigans—
a parrot on her shoulder now,
the manikin offering
a rainbow shoelace,
like a

Categories: jabberwocky, fantasy, humor, mystery, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Emagi Carroll Jabberwocky

LEWIS CARROLL ' JABBERWOCKY' from thru the looking glass

================================   
           I

Categories: jabberwocky, word play,
Form: Shape

Jabberwocky Gibberish

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

Categories: jabberwocky, usa,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Jabberwocky of a Fix

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

Categories: jabberwocky, drug,
Form: Free verse

Jabberwocky of a Fix To Be In

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

Categories: jabberwocky, books,
Form: Free verse

I Speak Jabberwocky For Fun

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

Categories: jabberwocky, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Jingly, Jabberwocky J

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

Categories: jabberwocky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration

Grabberwocky-2a

Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove
Did whine and witter in the Brext.
All Szyddly was the Orban cove
And Grabberwock out-Mexed.

“Beware the Grabberwock, my dear,
The salesman’s talk, the dubious thatch.
Beware his leakiwick, and fear
His groomious undersnatch.”

She took her righteous sword in hand.
Her people cried “Deplore, deplore!”
So rested she by the Dumdum tree—
And thought “deplore” some more.

And as

Categories: jabberwocky, nonsense, parody, political,
Form: Political Verse

Grabberwocky-2

(November 2016)

Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove
Did whine and witter in the Brext.
All Szyddly was the Orban cove
And Grabberwock out-Mexed.

“Beware the Grabberwock, my dear,
The salesman’s talk, the dubious thatch.
Beware his leakiwick, and fear
His groomious undersnatch.”

She took her righteous sword in hand.
Her people cried “Deplore, deplore!”
So rested she by the Dumdum tree—
And thought “deplore” some more.

And

Categories: jabberwocky, humorous, parody, political,
Form: Political Verse

The Boar of Dumm - a Jabberwocky Parody

'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

Categories: jabberwocky, adventure, books, parody, son,
Form: I do not know?

Jabberwocky

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

Categories: jabberwocky, fantasy,
Form: Lanterne

Jabberwocky Redux

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?

Categories: jabberwocky, confusion
Form: Free verse

Jabberwocky

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;

Categories: jabberwocky,
Form: Sonnet