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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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No, I am not referring to anything written by Toerag. Grotesque verse is verse written by twisting words and creating new ones. Examples: One of the best examples can be found by Dixon Lanier Merritt (not Ogden Nash).. A wonderful bird is the Pelican, His bill can hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican. He employs three triples and a basic internal rhyme, if you combine lines 3 and 4, even creates his own words(!), and creates a little ditty that has been remembered for a very long time. Isn't that what we would all like? Ken Nesbitt did it well, too, with his poem about the lonely hippo... My family has a hippo -- one lonely hippopotamus. We ride astride his hippo hide while sitting on our bottomus. Our hippo is so lonely, I've thought that since we got him I should get one more so they would be two happy hippopotami. ...and the king of this kind of writing, Ogden Nash. Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull: He weeps because he's not an ea-gull. Suppose you were, you silly sea-gull, Could you explain it to your she-gull? No, this is not an assignment. It's not as easy as it looks...and it doesn't look easy! It's just a glimpse of what's out there and the fun you can have with your creative endeavors. Of course, if anyone WOULD care to tackle it, the teacher's honor roll would not be out of the question  |
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Dr.Moose1 Member Elite
since 1999-09-05
Posts 3448Bewilderment , USA |
Balladeer, O.K., let me get this straight. It's not a class, it's difficult, you get extra points, and you get to make your own words up? Even though I sense a trap, you had to know I was going to be all over this one. Here's a practice, but I don't think it qualifies as "grotesque" as I didn't make up any words. Security was multiplied each time the filthy culprit tried to abscond with the cash he was caught in a flash thus were his efforts nullified Now to make up some words. Doc |
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xTr3m3sT Member
since 2008-03-03
Posts 415 |
Lol, o.o There was this Kangaroo He had this weird Kangarooti He married a Pandaroo they named it Pandarooti She got to be a ten years old Pangaroo before she died of some sickness the mother and father cried, mostly the Pandaroo her spirit lives on with you as a whitness. |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Hope you don't mind me 'playing'... I just stumbled in here tonight, and couldn't resist this one... While walking in the park one day, I met a hungry rhino. He stopped and asked me , 'Sir, pray tell, where can a rhino dine?'. Oh... I thought and thunk and glanced around, looked to the sky, stared at the ground, and fin'lly my reply was 'Hellifino!'. Thanks, 'deer, for giving my muse a little something to munch on... |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Ah, Vicky..you give new meaning to the word grotesque!  That was brilliant. Hellifino how you did it so well! |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
LOL... 'grotesque', indeed... I've found my calling... *smile* Thank you, 'deer... I'm glad you enjoyed it... and thanks for your smile... I've missed that...  |
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