Short Dum Poems
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DUM DRUM (for Sara Kendrick)
A rumpety tum ta tum
A rumpety tumpety tum
A dippity dee and a dippity doo
Go rum rum rumpety tum
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
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
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
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
’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.
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jumped off a read of Brian Strand's A Limerick Historique
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
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.
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This one is called a Fifteener, with 15 syllables per line as:
diddy-DUM-di diddy-DUM-di diddy-DUM-di diddy-DUM