In the far Sahara desert
In the midst of golden sands
The ancient town of Timbuctoo
Majestically stands
If you travel far beyond it
As you get quite near the sea
You will find a modern village
And they call it Timbucthree
In the sub-Saharan forest
Since before when time begun
There has been a stately city
And they called it Timbucone
Author notes
Sorry
A contest entry
- Give Me The Funnies by Simply.Nora..
375 points, ended September 10, 2007, 6 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Make me laugh by lilblueeyesmine1978.
425 points, ended September 20, 2007, 37 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Congrats on the honerable mention, well desurved, great poem, Keep writting
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Very Cute
I never saw this coming. I really liked this thanks for entering and I hope to get the time to read more from you soon.
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Oh I get it now, One two and three. LOL. Im sooooooo slow. Good job. No need to say sorry i should say sorry. LOL Good JOb! _nora
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Maybe its cuz im slow but I dont understand it. send me a message explainin to me Then I'll really be able to judge it. _nora
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What becomes of four and five
Upon your humble quest
Are they all just figments
Oasis like the rest?
Shimmering in the desert sands
Mirages just to see
But Timbuctoo exists there
It's real for you and me.
Sue
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Beyond the village near the sea,
That we all know as Timbucthree
You can see a little more
If you walk on down to Timbucfour
If journeyed near and journeyed far
In bus and train and ship and car
Now I'm pretty sure no man alive
Knows the way to Timbucfive
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I love this. Thank you for the laugh as it was needed. The silliness of it is so wonderfully written. I loved it.
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wow..refreshing break..I liked it..we need all the silly we can get nowadays
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timbucone, timbuctoo, timbucthree, timbucfour
o.O this is silly.... lol
I like that it's silly, but I'm just making sure, did you mean to spell it Timbuctoo??? Because it's Timbuktu* ... I didn't want to correct you if that was actually part of the poem. No need to apologize, it's a far cry from a lot of what you read on here about break ups and the such... nice work o.o
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When I was learning how to read
It was Timbuctoo indeed
Over the years my life has ranged
Many place names have been changed
But being as I stole the name
To play a silly little game
It doesn't matter much I'd say
Spell it the old or modern way
But one thing I'll not do too quick
Is to write it down in Arabic!
I did wonder which way I should spell it, but as it's not really describing the place (which is I believe a very tatty oasis town) but playing a silly word game I decided to stick to how I think of it. And besides that in AA Milne's If I were King we get
If I were King of Timbuctoo
I'd think of lovely things to do
And if the creator of Winnie the Pooh isn't the ultimate authority on absolutley everything my world view is all wrong!
On a lighter note, I'm glad you liked its silliness, silly is always good!
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I liked this. The last line of the first stanza threw the rhythm off for me as a reader. I thought this was really creative. Not sure where you get your inspiration from for some of these, but you are really an entertaining writer.
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Ma-Jest-i-Cally
Is how to pronounce it to make the last line of the first verse work. At least it does for me. -
Just a minute
In this case it was provoked by the use of "Timbuctoo" as the subject of one round of the BBC Radio panel game "Just a Minute" which is probably the second best thing on Radio anywhere in the world after "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" I think you can find examples of both on the BBC website and I would recommend them to fans of the seriously silly anywhere.
It was only the word Timbuctoo (or possibly Timbuktu see above) it's just such a delightfully silly name. -
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Haven't heard of it... I'll have to check out out. Is it like a radio version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" I love that show. As for majestically... still just doesn't sit for me the way I read, but that's a very minor thing.
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Just a minute
Is a game where four comedians take turns to attempt to talk on a given subject for sixty seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. It has been running for about forty years and is something of an institution. The description does not do justice to the programme. -
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Sounds interesting... I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the head's up!
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