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Gillyweed Ranzmalkin (The Gnome On A Pole) |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
Now that I've flourished through finals with flying colors, that means new poetic summer scintillations are under way from me (you've gotten an early taste of it with "Pinwheels And Lemon Peels", "Zenaida The Magicicada" and "Always Licked But Never Beaten") which I've began penning away Friday evening and will begin posting them either tomorrow or Monday, yay! (does happy pre-solstice samba)  I've been listening to a lot of polynesian polophony lately, so a lot of my new balmy beats will have an exotica flair to them, while some others will have intergalactic wanderlust, etc. where old favorites will be posted in-between the new batch, yay!  As I prepare the first of many new melismatc melodies (the first likely to be one titled "Lei It On The Line", with two other titles including "Watermelon Soup" and "Lawn Enforcer") here's one from last summer all about the publicity even a sole lawn gnome can inspire! (giggles) )* Gillyweed Ranzmalkin (The Gnome On A Pole) By: Noah Eaton 8/13/06 Lurching up there, from his lofty perch, sitting right above, the Calhoun Falls Baptist Church, loiters as taciturn, as a village cherry birch, a seventeen inch tall crackerjack, of doggerel verse, he’s a pale-faced pantaloon, all dressed up in motley, gardeners are intimidated by his stare, as though he’s V.I Warshawski, no one’s sure if this is some publicity stunt, or if he just sites there like some Maltese cat, maybe he just loves a first-class seat, to behold some old world chat. Gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, among some it’s generating, a heightened row, gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, standing stonily quiet from his tall abode. Among some folklore fruitcakes, Gillyweed Rainmaking’s a working class hero, but he’s got his disparagers too, including his troll neighbor Nacklemadge Yamashiro, and the Garden Gnome Liberation Front, has trained a reconnoiterer woodpecker, plotting to gnome-nap this josher, deport him back to Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire, but generally speaking, most have come to his defense, such as Freiden Farfrigraganuergen, founder of the group Gnomes In Space, with a face as green as a gherkin, he’s holding talks with the church groundskeeper, who swears Gillyweed’s peering at her over the hedge rows, by the looks of it, it may take years to agree to a quid pro quo. Gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, his flesh is as powdery, as dry pastry dough, gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, flooding the headlines on local talk shows. Gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, beginning to have mushrooms, growing out of his big toe, gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, tourists have begun pouring in, from to and fro, gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, he spots stolen doughnut trucks, faster than you can say “Inspector Costeau!”, gnome on a pole, gnome on a pole, who knows what secrets, this lavender cone-hatted uncle bestows. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other" Mother Teresa |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
very cute Noah  I really like this, like so many of yours, the lighthearted feeling of your words makes me smile. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
lol What an imagination you have! I don't think I will ever look at a gnome the same way again! ~ Who knew! lol btw I've met a few stony gnomes on a pole in my travels.   Linda |
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Ringo
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
You, my friend, are a very sick man... and that helps you to write amazing ditties such as this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. What would you attempt to do...if you knew you could not fail?. |
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