NONSENSIFICATION

dVerse Tuesday Poetics, and Merrill has asked us to consider connections in these days of the pandemic.  In the midst of it all we moved to a new community and the clubhouse has been closed to gathering.  I have been able to connect with a small group of women with a kindred interest in recreational writing, and we exchange our writing efforts by e-mail monthly. Elsewise, Merrill has asked us to consider how we’re connecting words, phrases and lines in our poems.  I seem always to think in rhyme, lines tidily complete (I can't seem to conquer enjambment).  Today,  I’ve been inspired to write a Jabberwockian nonsense poem for a little light relief.   Submitted January 19, 2021

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Thunderation and dagnabbit

The obfurcator broke

It’s all wonkily awry

What’s more it’s bespoke

To make matters worse

and confabulate the story

There’s an obvious kink

In the confligatory

The trip may be abandoned

For reasons excomplicit

We’ve searched the  profabulary

But can’t seem to fix it

So hail and farewell

We’re stuck-- quarantined

Mayhap we’ll congregate in Valhalla

When we’ve all been vaccined