Today, well a long time ago, my mom picked an assignment that she got from the daily Brave Writer email writing suggestion. Since she knows that I love poetry, usually ,free verse, she thought that I would like the assignment.
You have to make up at least 15 nonsensical words. Then read the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, the man that wrote Alice’s Advertures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I have posted it below. Then you have to write your own poem in the style of Jabberwocky.
First I wrote a free verse one than my mom made me write another one that had a more traditional rhyme.
Jabberwocky
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Here are my words (my brother came up with the first five):
Mekmo
Kippytup
Zargoozle
Poqwle
Ormuckerz
Hanglitmirn
Nakeeclypieck
Quajbinrit
Santorelobe
Bufalias
Techlycoraholymeeshnabia
Yorshnoble
Nuncanna
Woopubineekly
Mortqueesty
Here is the first free verse one I wrote:
The Land of Techlycoraholymeeshnabia
I sat aboard the Kippytup
While the yorshnobles squawked
with poqwle
Sailing across the Santorelobe
Was not just only a bufalias for
me but for the Hanglitmirns
and Nakeeclyplecks who flew
around my Nuncanna while
eating woopubineekly
dogs on my mind 