Dark Nonsense Poems

Reflecting on times, ones perfectly certain,
Without shadows of doubt on the mind,
As though shining, waiting by black or white curtains,
As though truth were so easy...

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he brove a garrid oom
deemotted uve 
and lookied goom
  eek eek
he seddle as
his bladed morble
hoom

around the camp fire
all agogged
this tale hooed
  awoy awoy
then...

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jabed in frilied thawn 
a witch blugued the trees
with her a wabled thag
did tread
and mollied at her knees

frool frool
the witch that dawn
opockied beebs and bubs
to...

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squake the guisely skwallard
there’s pudding in the fridge
but leave a siley pappledoth
for the midnight gobbleditch

let it eat a munchinfless
and skreel a throbbledue
hide and hope the...

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Curious hands took delicated folded sky lantern,  
"Be careful you don't tear or rip me," it said.  
"Cause I'm the one that gives...

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has he got 
the balls 
to juggle? 

doesn’t he 
have 
balloons? 

only a knife 
and a photo 
of his mother

not meeting 
their gaze
only walking by,
fixed...

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Put a flipper on a kipper if you want to toast a seal 
Put a bloater in a toaster for a better fitting meal
If the...

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If love were my bililligig
and thou my comely sorrcondor,
I’d shirren courst thine eyes assiligig
as mine own gane sizzon begondor.

Oh, mine hertzen hurtzen!
How could thoust be...

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ehæl cyning læteþ burg scríðan,
Wyrd oft nereð unfægne eorl
Scúrheard scearp, sceadu scínende.
Gástlíc græg góma, gealgtreow blíðe
Wælstowe weard, wulf on heolstre. 
Dagas sind gewitene, dreór on...

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Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap 

Yo, gather 'round the table, let me spin you a tale, 'Bout a blind man named Benny, he was never...

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She moved carefully into the light bulbs
Didn’t want to stumble into the gloom
The shamans looked on speculatively 
Unable to raise in the silence
Another dark and...

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Good morning, 
Gibbers And Watts how may I help you today? 
Yes Sir I can help you with that.
Have you had any thoughts on how...

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breek n brare
along a carpeted hall
bax n goolin oft is a ghoul
betrackeding down a creakeding stair
trumble n frumble n deatheding fall



...

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bescare the Broogle stalking the stair
floiting hoiting loitering there
the Broogle the Broogle its howl of a scare
heeden oh heedon unsqueem beware
the Broogle the Broogle stalking...

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the growth that all a person has
sinister growth like fungus or tumour
sprouting protruding
scrouting grotruding
a growth growing
with light
black black black
flat flat flat
mirroring our dances
echoing our chances
fat...

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