A Nonsense Test

This is the translation of a German poem by Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), who wrote cerebral nonsense verses comparable to Edward Lear’s.

A weasel
Was perched on an easel
Within a patch of teasel.
But why?
The moon cow
Whispered to me her reply:
The cunning beast did it
Because of the rhyme.

Readers are invited to stay home, or go the zoo, and invent similar nonsense, modelled on the above, just because of the rhyme.

Example:

A sparrow
Far too narrow
Flies off to seek new marrow

Please do better!

9 Responses to A Nonsense Test

  1. So shallow
    like truth i could never swallow
    While I was looking at my pillow

    Good enough?

  2. Not a poem, but doggerel from from childhood:

    I wonder, said Roy, as he sat on his window cleaning his slate with a bit of fine sponge, what are sponges made of?

  3. I am reluctantly prepared to give you a consolation prize.

  4. A finch
    flew way more than an inch
    and found his very own grinch

  5. An albatross
    didn’t give a toss
    so he told his boss
    he was going to doss
    instead of doing his work.

    His boss the alligator
    said see ya later
    and gave him his marching orders

  6. Thanks! I have a blog about nonsense so I was looking at other blogs about nonsense. http://blogawocky.wordpress.com/

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