or “How I Turned Out Like This”
A Silly Jilly Poem for Scribbling indVerse.
She was razed
up to be a
momconformist
so when she try-folded
the trowels
and dug dirt with bath
towels a Shirley-you-jest
beat her hibbity chest
proclaiming in voco-profundo
“Art thou no doctor of mime!”
Her tale is a glad one, but true
she stammered her pen and off flew
a self-percolating
and unliberating
poet of weirdness and wine
the children of kerfuffle and thyme
gathered their carrots and rhyme
tucked under their tosies
and sneezled their nozies
tilling the soil quite sub-lime.
they supplanted citrus and bells
all glorious hast’ning with spells
the magic was tragic
it flew from their grabick
and landed with happy unlines
© Jilly’s & Silly-Jilly All Rights Reserved
Our Bartender has asked me to take the mic and record this, so here ’tis!
You have GOT TO record this. So much to love from the Doctor of mime to weirdness and wine, kerfuffle and thyme ( claps)…momconformist self percolating magik.
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Ok – twist my arm – I’ll do a sound cloud. Thanks for your comments, Paul!
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Done! Sound cloud added (I had fun)
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joyful jilliness
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Thanks! Paul suggested I record it, so if you get a moment, go have a listen!
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So good! I don’t even know where to start with all the great lines.
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🙂 Paul suggested I record it, so…
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Wait! Wait!
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That was perfect. You ending with a laugh was best of all. So great to hear your voice.
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Thanks! I had fun with it 🙂
The last time I did a sound cloud was during Harrison and it was a similar poem – kind of Jabberwocky.
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You are a natural at this kind of poetry, both writing and reading.
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Thanks 🙂
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I love how you made this… what an excellent of breaking grammar for the purpose of musicality as long as it rhymes break the rules. Not silly at all.
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I’ve added a sound recording at Paul’s prompting and it is totally silly if it weren’t before 🙂
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Ha.. yes that was great – especially the laughter in the end,
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It’s mad Limerick time!
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Too much Lear in my childhood! (I’ve added a sound cloud if you want to hear the craziness.)
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I’ll listen. When I’ve woken up sufficiently 🙂
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I read in utter amazement. This Jabberwockian tale enchanted me!
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Yay! and Paul suggested I record it, so I’ve added a totally silly sound cloud…
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I like this momconformist poet of weirdness and wine. Good one!
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Thanks, Vivian! I’ve added a sound cloud after the fact at our host’s suggestion. By the way, hope you will join us for Casting Bricks Collaborative Poetry – October opens on Friday.
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ooh! Tell me more!
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Casting Bricks to Attract Jade is a collaborative poetry prompt that I host each month. Here is the link for the September Challenge if you would like to see what it’s all about: https://jillys2016.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/casting-bricks-jillys-september-challenge/
There’s a permalink on my blog, as well. Everyone is welcome! (The October edition opens up on Friday.)
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Ok, thanks for the info. I’ll have a look.
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I’m chuffed by this! Can’t wait!!👍👍
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Hooray!
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Ah, the return of Silly Jilly! Your rhyming play is a joy to behold. You were baptized into the Mother’s Garden and with a mild goose now and then it all comes tumbling out.
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🙂 that, and Lear. Thanks for stopping by!
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Always!
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I like this; it’s fun, especially the first stanza
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Thanks!
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So much fun to read and listen to, Jilly!
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🙂 Was thinking about you last night. Hope all is well
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All is well, thank you, Jilly. Trying to work out some ideas I’ve had, but nothing is flowing.
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Wine, chocolate & howl at the moon… ?
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Sounds perfect to me! 🙂
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This is great. 🙂 I especially like “momconformist.”
You are a brilliant reader! I would love to sit at your feet in the children’s section of a bookstore. That is honestly a rare gift. I hope you use it. There’s nothing that makes me happier (or that makes me feel more worthwhile) than going to my daughter’s school to read to her class and be silly with them.
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Thank you so much! Here’s the irony; I teach school… 12th grade English. They like it when I’m silly just as much as the little kids.
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Love the poem and flows good with the dVerse prompt of breaking rules.
Do you think I can post my work on dVerse with breaking rules?
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I would think it applies…
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Good…I’ll post my link then. 🙂
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Silly Jilly…you’ve lived up to the name in your post here. LATE to the reading, needing a second and third sip of black coffee this morning to make heads or tales out of some of these posts but LOVING YOURS! Shirley-you–jes 🙂 Smiling through the entire post! And is there a Shirley in your life? This is magiclicious! 🙂
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I thoroughly enjoyed this- especially the children of kerfuffle and thyme
gathered their carrots and rhyme..lovely images.
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Thanks, Alison – it was a hoot to both write and record!
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Oh my goodness, so much to love about this…and especially the soundcloud. I can’t get the image of digging dirt with a bath towel out of my head….love the rebellion of that.
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Yay! Rebel to the core… Well, sort of. Haha! Thanks for reading and listening.
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Twas absolutely brillig, Jilly! “They supplanted citrus and bells” is here to challenge “cellar door” to a mellifluous-off.
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Oh, best compliment ever! Striven my whole life to be brillig. Only ever memorized 3 poems of any length, Jabberwocky is one of them. Thank you!
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I memorized it when I was a kid, before I was old enough to balk at surrealism and nonsense. So glad I did!
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Hooray!
Hey, I keep forgetting to tell you, we had NoSaint Collard Greens again this week. A fav 🙂
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Awesome! And I keep forgetting to tell you that I submitted some poems to an online journal. Now I’m trying hard to forget I did that.
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WAH!!!!! NO Way!!! Way?! How cool is that!?!? Ok, so in Steven King’s book “On Writing” he talks about nailing rejection letters to the wall above his writing desk like a badge of honor. I guess it’s a little like baseball (what isn’t like baseball?) – you strike out a bunch for every homerun. A Toast: Here’s hoping you hit homeruns! Please keep me in the NS loop, okay? I’m your biggest fan. 🙂 (Can you tell how thrilled I am by this?)
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Haha, woo, I’m sick to my stomach. I just read On Writing, but I skipped all the bits about his wretched childhood. Only book of his I’ve ever read. ok, so I convince myself that rejections are awards, got it. I will put them on the fridge next to the kid’s science fair participation awards. 🙂
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Me, too. Except I think I might have read The Shining a long time ago… not sure. Actually, I figure you’ll get all kinds of acceptances, because your writing is not just amazing, but it is growing daily. You have accomplished in a matter of months what many of us spend years trying to do. It makes my head spin to read your work.
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You’re gonna get me all full of myself and then I will start writing convoluted mush, quit it!
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Wait… you skipped the childhhod parts? Does that mean you missed the posion ivy bit?
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I missed it. Did someone beat him with poison ivy? Did he have to eat it for breakfast because there were no cheerios? Poor tiny Stephen King.
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Um… no. Think woods / no bathroom / no TP. Wahaha!!! For real
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Oh geez. The classic sitcom mistake!
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No Sh… I mean, yeah.
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