Tweedledee Poems | Examples

Logic

No, dear reader, this is not an April Fool's prank piece. It's merely a bit of nonsense for this very silly day...

Alice asked Tweedledee,
"What is logic?"
Tweedle thought for a moment then said,
"Though I never before have considered the question,
Here's how it rolls 'round in my head"
A thing that is so just might well be,
If that isn't too abstrusely quaint,
But I really don't see
How a thing that can't be
Can be anything other than ain't".

4am

Gentle is the growl of the distant traffic.
The heat of the vanishing night
Tumbles through the wide inviting window 
As summer's last hoorah cascades
A tsunami of over-ripe heat
Across the surface of the dusty duvet
Where I lie
To suck the resistant moisture
From my pores
And simultaneously steal my sleep
The wild creatures are subdued.
Lucid thoughts crowd into
The sleepless void like
A second unwelcome visitor.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Want to wrestle me into the world..
I reach for the ropes with hopes of
A friendly hand, to tag me back
Into the realm of unreality..
Gentle is the growl of the distant traffic.


Jinjagoliath
10th September 2023
4am

The Drawbridge Closes

Old age brings
delusion
Youth the vengeful
liar
Caught between
confusion reigns
As time restokes
the fire

Tweedledee
and Tweedledum 
The Brothers Grimm
delight
What doesn’t rob
by light of day
Will steal from you
at night

Wisdom rots on
twisted vines
That choke
the palace walls
Where jesters climb
in ill attempts
To heed the 
emperor’s call

Senility
humility
Where folly
once was young
The years have come
the tears have stayed
—tomorrow on the run

(The New Room: August, 2023)

Off With His Head

Tonight, I woke up screaming.
I woke up screaming your name.
Alas, I wasn't dreaming.
Another toy in your game.

It's a game you play so well,
The Red Queen of broken hearts.
Down the rabbit hole I fell,
The Mad Hatter from the start.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum,
This dual role that I once led.
A beguiled referendum,
Until the axe took my head.

Now I'm lost in Wonderland,
No Cheshire Cat grin for me.
This fate I can't understand.
What cure for such misery?

Varying Radiance

Tweedledee surfs tides the fingers decree 
Tweedledum rinses the melody lyrics gum
As I gently strum 
My guitar took me far where I can never disagree 

In the dreamland of peace 
Where brothers trouble sisters like breeze 
Everyone fears the waves of seashore 

Through smile, love travels miles 
In agony, love takes patience to subdue hegemony 
Love begets love
So do hatred begets hatred
But two wrongs can not make a right
When he emits hatred; to learn him love, display it. 

© 2020 
® Olábòsóyè Wèmímó Oláolúwá

Use the Cheshire Cat As a Nightlight

Is the Mad Hatter the only one who can be mad then?
I glared at Alice; is she so obtuse, she does not recognize her truth?
What is it? She asks me, concerned.
I am the Queen of Hearts and likely to lop her head off if I take a notion.
Frankly I doubt now there would be anything worthwhile in her head.

Tweedledee Dee and Tweedledee Dumb have stopped eating.
Empaths, they feel my wrath, so they gather up the cookies and go.
What about the sandwiches? Don’t you want them? Asks Cheshire.
Cheshire is a trouble maker; this is why I like him.
I watch his smirking grin disappear and reappear.

I could use you as a night light I think. Crumb! There is the stupid rabbit.
The one that brought that human down here in the first place.
I send my henchmen to bring back his head.
The Red of Diamonds is as dumb as the Ten of Spades.
They bring back Cinderella’s crystal slipper.
Wrong story you idiots!

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 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.

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 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.

Between the Lines

"And if my private universe scans right, // So does the verse of galaxies divine ..." - from the poem "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov.

In Wonderland, with Alice I would walk
and speak with Cheshire Cats and one March Hare,
then through the looking glass, a Jabberwock,
as Tweedledum and Tweedledee would stare.
With Lucy in her diamond-studded sky,
newspaper taxis and cellophane flowers,
I found myself sharing marshmallow pie
with rocking horse people for countless hours.
In Narnia, I met the Pevensies
a Faun and Lion past the wardrobe door.
In Middle Earth I learned of talking trees,
and hobbits, dwarves, and elves - brave to the core. 
   Between the lines of lyrics, prose and verse
   flew rockets in my private universe.


written 17 Sep 2020

Rock a Fella

the meaningless
sing of the song
"I am the Walrus"
makes me hungry
to selfishly eat my
fill of shellfish i see

but with a bib i'd be
the walrus not Paul
and if eating when
ever any are at hand
then the carpenter i'd
be so with no motive

i see no relegiosity to
attempt to interpret
what tweedledee
and tweedledumb
said in form in front
of alice so alas i may

have a cup of tea
with a dozen clams
with out a chance of
ever finding a pearl in
any of these but it's you
who are Venus on a half

shell and
i can tell
by sight
you'd be
quite a
tasty

treat

Dino Dumbledee

Dumbledee Dinosaur had birds on his knees
His long, Long, LONG neck would often spout green peas
His eyes would twirl and his ears would spin
He tried to smile all the time but his mouth was too thin
He loved the waters of Twee lakes and Twee oceans
But tangled his giant Dino feet with too much commotion
He waddled and bobbled in such a funny sight
That all the Twees and Twums from Tweedledee Dum
Would run, Run, RUN it was such a FRIGHT!!!
They flew up in the air without any care
They Tweedledee Twumed on their wee Twee little bums
Till Dumbledee Dinosaur caught them midair - with such laughter
To save the day for Twee and live happily ever after!

Alice 4

Tweedleedee saw Alice reach the square bounds,
"Funny girl, he sighed, "she thinks she's real
All the world is only fiction,
Someone's dream, an absurd game."
"Anyhow," his brother looked around,
"If this world has something real,
It should have the only name."
"Which?" inquired Tweedledee.
Tweedldum just spelled aloud:
A, L, I, C and E."

Mother Goose Gone Mad

Who tripped who first?
Jack or Jill?
From the top of that nursery rhyme hill?
Also just who pushed Humpty Dumpty?
Off to his dreadful fate?
See all the king's horses,
and all the king's men,
intentionally, had gotten there so late.
There the castle hall thrown,
Itsy Bitsy Spider lived above it
had whispered secrets to Little Miss Muffet.
All through the kingdom conspiracy grows,
King Cole turned out to not be such a jolly old soul.
The cow didn't make it over the moon,
landing a bad fall from jumping to soon,
so Jack trader her, for the little beans in town,
the stalk grew so high,
up where gold and giants are found.
Little Bow Peep,
didn't actually loose her sheep,
she snuck out to the pasture for Little Boy Blue
while her mom was asleep.
The old woman in the shoe,
turned out to be,
a mean old grouchy fraudulent mommy.
She sent all her kids out over seas,
row, row, rowing their boats,
to a far off nursery.
They found their way to Old MacDonalds farm,
along with Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
now they are stuck as slaves for song,
for all rhyming eternity.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

In Alice, this guy Tweedledum
By anyone’s rule of thumb
His twin, Tweedledee
Just had to be
A little bit dumber than dumb

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