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slipitygobbledybubbaloo

with slipity slime and grimity grime
drive it on home with a rhyming syndrome
have a good time when you break out in rhyme
with slipity slime and grimity grime
your verse will then chime and stop on a dime
slick as chrome and your readers won’t roam
with slipity slime and grimity grime
drive it on home with a rhyming syndrome


gobbledygook in each cranny and nook
to crack a big smile with your rhyming style
to rhyme in a book is all that it took
gobbledygook in each cranny and nook
just let them look and they’ll jump on your hook
you’ll reconcile the poems you compile
gobbledygook in each cranny and nook
to crack a big smile with your rhyming style

a bubbaloo verse just couldn’t be worse
so please get it right and keep your rhyme tight
a poem is adverse to simply converse
a bubbaloo verse just couldn’t be worse
so keep it diverse and try not to curse
such a delight when your rhyme is alright
a bubbaloo verse just couldn’t be worse
so please get it right and keep your rhyme tight

with slipity slime and grimity grime
drive it on home with a rhyming syndrome

gobbledygook in each cranny and nook
to crack a big smile with your rhyming style
a bubbaloo verse just couldn’t be worse
so please get it right and keep your rhyme tight
I mean no offense so in my defense
I tried to dispense a poem that makes sense

 

 

 

 

Author notes

I want to dedicate this poem to my friend Jeff Green.

Triolet with internal rhyme; the last stanza breaks form to serve as a refrain.

A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.

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  • Edna Sweetlove
    April 18

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    Niggetty-noggetty piggly-woo
    I think this poem's a load of poo!
    Wiggly-woggly fliggetty-flad
    Not it's not really quite so bad!


  • Visions to Ponder
    April 18

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    Lol, this is a good and funny poem! And Aneka Bellingan is kindda write.... slimy things ARE for boys!


  • Aneka Bellingan
    November 12, 2008

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    EEEUUU!!! This is gross!! Slimy things are for boys. Good thing you wrote this poem for uncle Jeff.
    It sounds like a bedtime rhyme. *rolf*

    *hug&


  • cricketjeff gold member
    September 27, 2008
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    Thanks so much for putting in one of my favourite poems of all time, I know this is not what you will be remembered for except in the circles of dememnted British poets and nonsense fans
    Where it goes down as on a par with the likes of Edward Lear and Ogden Nash, wonderful!

    But you knew all that already



    Thanks again and all the best
    Jeff



  • Dark Otter
    September 13, 2008
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    Demented Genius!

    at its best. Hats off to a great nonsense poem that rocked my socks off.


    • Amera gold member
      September 13, 2008
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      hehe, thank you. I am a bit demented.


  • Rovingone gold member
    September 11, 2008

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    Had to go back a bit to find a poem that I hadn't read yet.  This one was just perfect. More unwords than the jabberwocky and just a total delight to read. What a cadence, it's like jump roping with your tongue.


  • Azgar
    September 1, 2008
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    Fun to read :)


  • maa gold member
    March 22, 2008

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    I love it !
    amazingly creative vocabulary here, the whole verse made me giggle and my inner child jump like rumpelstilzchen ... I guess I am the perfect candidate for this category of your poetry ...
    perfect !


    marion

  • cricketjeff gold member
    March 16, 2008

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    I forgot to comment again! All that I said before stands, excpet now the best nonsense verse on the site has the right colour cup. I know you would hate me to say that nonsense is your genre, but please never stop writing it. Only three or four poets got this form of nonsense, but you have, perfectly. All the nonsense words appear to make sense. You did not cheat and rhyme non-existent words it is simply perfect nonsense. And it is staying in my wallet, until you write a better one.


  • Mairi bheag gold member
    March 16, 2008
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    More bling for the shelf? My clever sister!

  • cricketjeff gold member
    February 12, 2008
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    If this were my contest, and not part of a series to find the greatest rhyming poetry this would have one hands down I have found one thing to complain about slippity has two ps!
    This is a plusperfect poem, I keep sneaking back to read it. I love and adore nonsense verse and great flow and ryme and tongue twisters, I get all in one here. My personal choice for poem of the decade? Maybe but it isn't the winner here. Sorry but in looking for great rhyme and flow we need to look for poets who can do that using the words available to us all. So please take a metaphorical Jeff Gold Cup, in fact if I start a nonsense contest will you enter this so I can give it the cup I want to?
    Fantastic and thank you for giving me the best laugh in months and pricking my pomposity into the bargain, fantastic.

    Now the Jeff and Sue bit. We both love this poem but and are delighted that you have entered it. You have taught both of us such a lot during this series and we hope you will take part in the invite only contest for which you have qualified.
    Thanks again
    Jeff and Sue

    PS I want the six clappies button


    • Amera gold member
      February 12, 2008
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      Who says "slipity" has two "P's"? Since I coined the word; can't I spell it any way I want?

      • cricketjeff gold member
        February 12, 2008
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        I couldn't give a review like that without finding some fault now could I?

        The poem is perfect and I love it, and I love you for writing it, and a nonsense verse deserved a nonsense complaint.


  • Faeryn
    February 4, 2008

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    This peom makes me smile beyond amazing rhymes and super awesome title.
    -Tay


  • Talking Toni gold member
    February 2, 2008
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    Amazing Rhymes..........

    you have displayed here!!! I can see why you won the gold in the previous contest. Such talent you present with your words and rhymes...what else can I say except Amazing!!!Thanks for sharing this piece with me tonight you brought some chuckles into my night!!!~~Toni!!


  • Whoochi gold member
    January 27, 2008

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    WOW! You nailed....the rhyme....ya know who I am reading this too...if I can get the words right outta my mouth...MOST fun thing I have read in a long time.....Best of Luck DOLLFACE! xoxoxoxo


  • And Hyetal
    January 26, 2008

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    Funny and I love the internal rhyme. This should be perfect for the contest.

    Good luck!

    ~Cassie


  • Ellis gold member
    January 25, 2008
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    Jeepers, this is FUN!
    -------------


  • penman gold member
    January 24, 2008
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    Wow

    Oh my goodness. What an incredible poem. Best of luck in the contest.

  • Papagallo
    January 24, 2008

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    This Is Great

    a fun read and very enjoyable. You put a lot of work in this poem and it flowed fast and smooth. Great rhyme throughout the entire poem; way better than I could ever do. A bit of a tongue twister in the title. Good luck in the contest. Wish I had more applause, but I gladly give you these. Take care and keep writing.

  • cricketjeff gold member
    January 24, 2008
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    This obviously is not a judge commenting, but Melvin has just run me up to say he and The Snaggleduff say this:-


    When a Snaggleduff has had enough
    Of playing around on snaggling ground
    He'll hurry home with Henry the gnome
    When a Snaggleduff has had enough
    Of feeling rough and acting the tough
    He'll pull out a tome and read out a pome
    For I have found he'll like the sound
    When a Snaggleduff has had enough
    Of playing around on snaggling ground

    Melvin the Dragon drinks milk by the flagon
    To quench his thirst he'd have to burst
    He takes to his wings when Snagleduff sings
    Melvin the Dragon drinks milk by the flagon
    It's kept in a wagon the one with a bag on
    He won't drink it cold or if it smells old
    You see he is cursed with a terrible thirst
    Melvin the Dragon drinks milk by the flagon
    To quench his thirst he'd have to burst

    When you spend the day in Bondnecray
    You learn to do the Snaggling shoo
    You'll snaggleboard from down by the ford
    When you spend the day in Bondnecray
    When the bumps are floored you ding the chord
    Form a queue if there's more than a few
    When you spend the day in Bondnecray
    You learn to do the Snaggling shoo

    • cricketjeff gold member
      January 29, 2008
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      THIS IS NOT THE JUDGES COMMENT.
      I am only half the judging panel and neither Sue nor I have done any more than check that this meets the minimum standard needed to reach the final. This comment was intended as fun, I come to AP because I love poetry. Sue and I are running these contests because we love poetry, all the entrants will be judged entirely on the content of the poems. If people believe that I am applying favouritism I shall ask Sue if she minds me opting out.
      I have resisted commenting on poems that I wanted to from 400 odd entrants, this was too good a piece of fun for me. I apologise to Amera and to all other entrants.
      Please believe me that Jeff Green the lover of nonsense verse is not the same person as cricketjeff the judge. This is a bloody good poem, I hope to see hundreds of other good entries.


    • Amera gold member
      January 24, 2008
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      Good job Melvin, you even nailed the internal rhyme.


  • sunny day
    January 24, 2008

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    Bravo!!! Bravo!!! Bravo!!!

    You just made my day with this one. No matter what you write you put your heart and soul into it. I would love to see this hit the Nickelodian Kids channel. The superb rhyming scheme with the addition of the internal rhyme was brilliant. It gave it a lyrical bounce. I am amazed once again by your poetic excellence. Thank you for sharing it with all of us here and best wishes in the contest. I'm off to read some more. Love you my friend, Joyce


  • Whispering Wind Moderators member
    January 24, 2008

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    A poem with a little dance beat...heel and toe and off we go...lol...I just love it! My little form Queen you have done it again...winner for sure


  • capricornpoet
    January 24, 2008

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    well let me slip on a dime

    I smiled through as tumbleweed winds of your words
    pushed me along this wonderful ride of a rhyming
    bard...lovely and tongue teasing.


  • StarEyes
    January 24, 2008

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    I had to read this one, with a Title like that! You did a great job on this one! This is a fun read for sure!!! (although I stink when it comes to rhyme) You my dear friend are great with it!! This is fun and great!!

    Best of luck in this contest!!

    and love

    Nyetta


  • Melodies
    January 24, 2008

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    Oh, such a smile-builder poem! Such a surprise to see this poem filled with fun! Delighted to visit your poetry this morning.


  • PerVirtuous
    January 24, 2008

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    This is sure to be a contender for the finals. It is well constructed, fun, brilliant, and the refrain at the end is a stroke of genius. If we weren't already Happily Married, I'd propose right here and now! You slay me!

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