An Homage (to Lewis Carroll)

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David2
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since 2000-03-22

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0 posted 2001-02-14 06:14 PM

My Father read "The Walrus and the Carpenter" to me when I was a child and it remains a favorite of mine. My apologies to those who are not familiar with the references. To those who are, I hope you can enjoy this.
David2

An Homage

A funny thought occurred to me today,
If pigs had wings would they be ‘fraid to fly?
And what of Kings and cabbages, you say?
I really think I’d rather not know why,
He chose to pair those two from all the rest,
Or what he thought about his shoes and ships.
Now sealing wax looks funny when it’s pressed,
But seas aren’t boiling hot as He did quip.
When Alice wandered through the looking glass,
Do you really think she did it on her own?
Although I’ve tried I can’t through mirrors pass,
And Wonderland remains the great unknown.

Of all the oddities that Alice spies,
The Carpenter and Walrus take the prize.

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2001-02-14 07:10 PM

The time has come the Walrus said to speak of many things
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings
and whether the sea is boing hot and whether pigs have wings
But wait awhile the oysters cried before we have our chat
for most of us are out of breath and all of us are fat
No hurry said the carpenter, they thanked him much for that.

kcsgrandma
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since 2000-09-24

Posts 1522
Presque Isle, ME

2 posted 2001-02-14 11:37 PM

I enjoyed this (and also enjoy Carroll's poetry, thanks to ethome for the quotation.) I can't think of a reason to pair cabbages and kings, either, except for the alliteration, and the absurdity. And I have to agree that the looking glasses in my house are not easily passed through. Thanks for the nice change of pace.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2001-02-15 11:12 AM

I don't know the answers... but I enjoyed your tribute very much. *S*

Meadowmuse
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since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

4 posted 2001-02-15 11:25 AM

"And Wonderland remains the great unknown."

A wonderful tribute, and this line is most instrumental in summarizing the "why," to my way of thinking. It is the unknown to which we are drawn through his images and ideas. He takes us out of our ordinary, our dull comfort, our stuffy grown up-ness, into a world of whimsy, of childhood, of dreams and magic. A world away. And we go, most willingly.

Lovely, lovely poem. Thank you for it.

Claire

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

5 posted 2001-02-15 11:44 AM

Good on ya, David2! Here's one I wrote back in 97...hope you like.

Carolingian

"Twas brillig" I heard the Momerath say
Deep in his chamber pot
"The Jabberwock has run away
And stole the Tumtum's plot"
So to the warbling stream I sped
The Borogrove to meet
I saw not his noisome head
But I saw his feet
The Walrus gaily ambled up
I heard him slightly sway
By the butter I knew he supped
On oyster by the bay
What a cruel and vicious sot
Shells for all the world to see
But as I patted down my smock
Thought "Better them than me"

Alicat

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