Balderdash and Poppycock

Posted on October 23, 2015 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

 

 

An anapest one sunny day
didida didida didida
had a battle with a dactyl
umpity umpity umpity
That darned pest of an anapest
hit umpity’s chest and came off best
but his fist struck and then stuck,
Didida umpity as long as eternity.

dVerse Poetics last night asked us to be funny.   I was not a-mused – that is until I read a few of the other contributions.  Then Bjorn’s anapestic poem tickled my fancy and this load of nonsense  came into my head, because an anapest is also called antidactylus 

 

For Octpo 23

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20 Responses to Balderdash and Poppycock

  1. georgeplace2013 says:
    October 23, 2015 at 22:14

    Wonderful words. A friend use to call my daughter “Snicklefritz”…. love that, too.

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  2. Kathy Reed says:
    October 23, 2015 at 22:09

    Great fun with you had with this….does ‘batta,’batta, batta’ work,, too?

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  3. kaykuala h says:
    October 23, 2015 at 21:38

    Cheerfully done, Viv
    Brilliant take up your sleeve!

    Hank

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  4. Mary says:
    October 23, 2015 at 19:48

    Love this kind of nonsense verse! What fun word play from you today, Viv!

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  5. kanzensakura says:
    October 23, 2015 at 19:28

    bibbity bobbity boo! What a fun read this was. The battle of the forms. thank you for this poem – it made me smile hugely.

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  6. Bodhirose says:
    October 23, 2015 at 18:13

    Oh this is a clever funny one…good job, Viv! 🙂

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  7. whimsygizmo says:
    October 23, 2015 at 18:09

    Love all the sounds happening here. Delighted.

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  8. Victoria C. Slotto says:
    October 23, 2015 at 16:28

    I’m so glad that Björn tickles your fancy, your funny bone. This anapest really does lend itself to humor poetry and you succeeded so well. Love the Battle of the forms.

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  9. Grace says:
    October 23, 2015 at 12:45

    oh, I love this Viv …didida didida didida —- 🙂

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  11. Sanaa Rizvi says:
    October 23, 2015 at 11:48

    Such a creative response 😀 love it!

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  12. catterel says:
    October 23, 2015 at 10:43

    You stir long dormant memories of scansion exercises on Latin poetry … and some nonsense rhymes to illustrate different feet 🙂

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  13. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) says:
    October 23, 2015 at 09:21

    Ha.. can you hear me laughing.. :-)… clearly those terms can sound like gobbledygook too… (I’m not sure I know the precise difference between that and Balderdash). 🙂

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  14. tialys says:
    October 23, 2015 at 09:17

    I think you need to stop having vodka on your cornflakes Viv 😉

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  15. katechiconi says:
    October 23, 2015 at 09:13

    And then the trochee police came to arrest the anapest: Deeee dah, deeee dah, deeee dah

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