From the drab green-brown worm of caterpillars and pupae,
Emerges the phosphorescent butterfly so pleasing to the eye!
But, why oh why, are butterflies so superbly colorful,
That we admire the fleeting flutters and flashes as wonderful?
Is it to say: "Be warned I'm toxic don't you dare eat me!"
Is it to attract a mate or mimic leaves, or flowers, Tweedledum dee?
For the worm which once crawled on leaves with heavy down-trod tread,
Knew what splendor with patience lay within to burst out ahead.
Like the ugly duckling shun by clutch contentious, and mum,
That transforms to a magnificent white swan glistening in the sun!
Alice said: "When you have to turn into a chrysalis and butterfly on queue,
I should think you’ll feel it a little 'strange', I would, won’t you?”.
“Not a bit,” said the Caterpillar, with a leer and sneer for all to hear.
"You'll get used to it in time,” as it sucked its hookah into gear.
Categories:
tweedledum, butterfly, nature,
Form: Couplet
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
Categories:
tweedledum, dark, miss you, muse,
Form: Free verse
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)
Categories:
tweedledum, age,
Form: Rhyme
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?
Categories:
tweedledum, fate, games, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
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
Categories:
tweedledum, anti bullying, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
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.
Categories:
tweedledum, drug,
Form: Free verse
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.
Categories:
tweedledum, books,
Form: Free verse
"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
Categories:
tweedledum, books, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
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.
Categories:
tweedledum, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Today's political agenda,
For political puppets--
Manipulated by the powers that be,
Hoping for a Lazarus economy,
Games people play,
Any miracles today?
Mystical revival,
Elections--farcical,
Candidates--comical,
Tweedledum?
Or Tweedledummer?
Yes, games people play,
Miracles on the agenda today?
Made any jobs today?
Not for the old, for the young,
Their careers not even begun.
Hoping for a Lazarus economy--
Who are the powers that be???????
Categories:
tweedledum, allusion, games, political, work,
Form: Free verse
Love
love might be what you think it may,
or time to spend with, owed today,
perchamce its written fore we come,
is this your part young tweedledum?
preplanned a mission hey...
thinks..the..stumble-bum,
slipped in subtle quip hooray :{
Don
do we have attracting love contracts before birth,
hence the fatal attraction.
Categories:
tweedledum, adventure,
Form: Ballad
In Alice, this guy Tweedledum
By anyone’s rule of thumb
His twin, Tweedledee
Just had to be
A little bit dumber than dumb
Categories:
tweedledum, family,
Form: Limerick