The vaulting shew in the bone yard,
a tide of purple haze,
this phantasmagoria of sounds.
A principia most languorous
girdled round some vagabond
vocabulary
twisted out of time
and rhymed in symmetry
as a cryptographic nonce.
Taken as you will
this mumbljumbling,
is some phrase-bereft paladin,
selfless in pursuit of troubled maxims
pretending at words and lines
of doubled meaning,
all in mimicry,
crying out senseless
in their scribal veins.
Author notes
1. Shew: archaic British variant of 'show', pronounced 'sho'.
2. A 'nonce word' is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. In security engineering, a nonce stands for a ‘number used once’, often a pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol.
3. "mumbljumbling" is a nonce of mumble, and jumble, with a little mumbo/jumbo thrown in, ending in'ing', and thus a gerund or a present participle. Which makes it a 'gerticiple'.
Comments
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love it!!! very witty and cheeky and yet serious all at the same time...great job here...keep on writing...thanks for the author notes...peace an dlight, kp
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Love it! A laugh and a lesson, all for one low price!
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Jade:
Glad you enjoyed such nonce-sense.
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Magma- cum -lade
Is that mumjumbling? -
I think You are Brilliant
I love your mumbo, mumbo, mumble,. jumbo, jumble. Also your Brilliant intellect! Your poetry is awesome...I have to look up mumbjumbling? lol...
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jolly good!
I like the phrase, girdled round some vagabond vocabulary. Nicely done.
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I love it. Reminds me of a man telling another to go to buggery and doing it so skillfully and obtusely that the second man asked directions.
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Bob,
Your comment is priceless!!!! Much better than the poem.
I can be nothing if not obtuse! Just so much mumbljumbling by which to have some fun.
Directions? Turn left at the next star and go straight on to sunrise.
JG -
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Will I need a hat?
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Bob,
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Then I better comb my hair a bit.
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