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Nonsense

by poemsgalore 

Posted: 26 September 2004
Word Count: 109
Summary: Couldn't think of a better title, but that's what this is anyway, nonsense!


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Have you seen the plogger?
I put it down, just there.
But now it’s disappeared.
It really isn’t fair.
I need to mend the riptitaff,
it really is a bother
because I just can’t do it
if I can’t find my plogger!
I thought I saw it crawling
along the quilsadore,
and that’s where I once found it
when it escaped before.
But no, it isn’t there now
but I found the arkadoo
which will come in very handy
when I go to clean the loo.
But if you find my plogger,
I hope you’ll let me know
then I can fix the riptitaff
before we get some snow.






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Don Gorgon at 17:51 on 26 September 2004  Report this post
Hehehehe! You can't beat a bit of nonsense, especially after you've just watched the news, which is so depressing right now. Who needs reality when you can have nonsense instead!!

Nice one! Thank yuo!

Don

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Thank you even!

Chem at 18:06 on 26 September 2004  Report this post
katheen

Enjoyed this very much! You make nonsense work well for your poem!
Made me smile.

Em

roovacrag at 20:47 on 26 September 2004  Report this post
Kathleen,same title as one of my earlier poems. Yes its all nonesense and fits the poem to a tea.

Well done.

xx Alice

Ticonderoga at 15:24 on 27 September 2004  Report this post
Nice bit of Seussery - most amusing. Of course, to a Scot 'riptitaff' means 'stole it'. Stole what, eh?! ;-)
Nice one.

Mike

engldolph at 18:55 on 27 September 2004  Report this post
Enjoyed!

Made me think of the word..."thingummy"
and how we have this irepressible desire to name everything..
Made me smile :-)

Mike

Zettel at 08:30 on 28 September 2004  Report this post
Kathleen

Great fun: and importantly drawing attention to the fact that fun in playing with words is built in to our language.

I guess these words are often regional. From Norfolk/Suffolk therefore (though probably not exclusive)

Thingummybobajig
Whadyamacallit
Who'dyamaflip
Oojah
Whussy

Mind be a bit of challenge to make these rhyme or scan!

Regards

Zettel

miffle at 16:04 on 28 September 2004  Report this post
Fun, bouyant poem full of words to get addicted to: like 'plogger'! 'Arkadoo' now he/she/it sounds a bit too exotic to be cleaning the loo, don't you think?! Good fun, nikki

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I might be tempted to call it 'Plogger'...

poemsgalore at 18:16 on 28 September 2004  Report this post
Thanks, glad you all enjoyed it. It's nice to have a laugh now and then, this poetry lark can get a bit too serious sometimes.

Nell at 08:54 on 30 September 2004  Report this post
Poems, you're right about 'this poetry lark.' Thanks for the smile. I set myself an exercise a few weeks ago - set the dictionary on my knee, closed my eyes and picked out a dozen words at random. I came across the resulting poem yesterday and didn't recognise it as mine - thought it was something I'd printed out to comment on. Then the penny dropped. Weird experience.

Nell.


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