Sunday, July 26, 2020

What Is The Scroungle? (Inspired By Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky) Comments

Rating: 5.0

The Scroungle lives on the Isle of Piffy. It has lived
There, quite quackily, for thousands of octolids.
It likes to granger in the mud with the Flossywatts.
The Scroungle is a refined type of Chavak.
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Shaun Cronick 27 July 2020

Revisiting a highly original and beautifully imagined poem by a poet who knows how to write a brilliantly crafted poem.10+. A poem I believe to make Roald Dahl and Lewis Carroll both proud to read and smile.

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Shaun Cronick 26 July 2020

Dominic there is a word PH has omitted from my previous comment. The word s n a t c h as in s n a t c h away. How long till they ban Antidisestablishmentarianism, simply for being not rude but for being too long.

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Shaun Cronick 26 July 2020

Oh very, very good and so very, very, clever. You craftily give with one hand then away with three others. And your choice of the stand alone word Scroungle is genius inspired. Lewis Carroll would most certainly doff his hat to you. And when he wrote Jabberwocky or Alice was he ever on opium or laudanum? 10+ and richly deserved for your unique poem Dominic. Many, many thanks good sir.

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