A Whole New Word
...Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
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Categories:
wabe, word play, words,
Form: Verse
Lewis
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He said that it was brillig, but what did that word mean
And slithy is a word that I had never seen
If you gyre and gimble, what do you really do
I guess when in the wabe, you seek th...
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Categories:
wabe, poetry, tribute, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Olympiad 1-4-79
...As the Dime Store sirens flared
bolts of irradiated invite,
my query was denied.
Their pimp-striped pilots only moaned,
their lust fueled by encapsulated
stench carried only by ...
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Categories:
wabe, dream, fantasy, imagery, nonsense,
Form: Narrative
The Goodbye Road
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"The Goodbye Road"
Glass slippers
cut roads clean
like diamonds
they dance through the storm
and Yellow is just a colour
ribbon tied aroun...
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Categories:
wabe, angel, christmas, dark,
Form: Epic
Jabberwock Revisited
...Why do mechanics need manuals when they’ve fixed it before?
Answer my question or I’ll walk out the door!
Didn’t they attend trade schools or get OJT?
Why need repair manuals? That what gets me.
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Categories:
wabe, fun, humorous, hyperbole, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Nondle
...Whilst arching in a turtle-neck
A breeze blew softly by,
Too young to have a nosebleed,
Instead I made it cry.
‘What have you seen, where do you go?’
I wondered up aloud.
‘I’m off to see the ...
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Categories:
wabe, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
83 Part Two
...83
…some people equate the phone number with identification in the millennium…
EEYE do not have a PHONE NO CELL PHONE eye almost cried.
NO NUMBER NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD TO CALL MY HOME…the garbl...
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Categories:
wabe, fantasy, parody, passion, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry