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’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.' This is a piece taken from Lewis Carol's "Jabberwocky", one of my favorite poems of all time. Even though the poem is written in gibberish, with words from Carol's own imagination, it still manages to convey meaning and capture a strong tone. Poems don't have to make sense to be enjoyable. Write your own poem in gibberish, but try to capture a certain tone, funny, solemn, urgent, mysterious. If it has a rhythm or meter, all the better. But most importantly, have fun! 100 coins to the winner.
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jwelker76 in Poetry & Free Verse

The Hakestrade

All lurmond and queet was he,

moirish to his very core.

Never wint I so gwarmy 

a throthfract as he.

Ah, but to strue at the very

enstrueing is best, as they say.

Many long morth have past

since first our glamwit broles

did carrunt together.

And yarly did we minsch

one to the other, in that strue.

He was trissom and fleeth,

no hint of gurgishness in him,

then. Yea, I sisperth myself

no small durl when I haebleed

my minnery of him. 

But, morret and alon, he

begormed before my very nins.

Margy and puellid he grew,

susserpating his voice became,

and his very prestery blanned into

sheer cromigiery. 

Soon I could twithly bestrom

his very innuration. Every

preet, every hawm, 

every treening goit of him made me

wambrish in my very finnows.

Now he brames at me, yurling my

clature and snurling his trilleries,

hoping to aumbre my grilth,

but I sprine him, I sprine him

to his unserous plute. 

I keet him now, barbling and

snivving at me, making such

a frimbellaria of it all.

I should wroge him, trafe him,

bratten his nerts until they blorf!

Ah, but no. I must be the

quincel lad, the airly brove.

But yea, surely, one fine hawling,

I would not be gorwinkled to

find him purnt and garley,

sprecked from colm to carn,

and a right long chiggle I will

have of it, too.