Poetry Challenge of the Day!
Cut-up Poem
Long ago when scraps were cheap
My mom, the cheapskate, used to keep
For Onyx, our black evil kitty
Boiled, chopped up meat to keep him pretty
And then one day this English guy
From my Dad's work, came wandering by
On the cat cushion he unknowingly sat
And soon his lap was full of cat
The Englishman smiled and said, 'Lovely!'
While stroking the cat's shining hide
'What does he eat? It must be some treat.'
'It's beef heart,' my mother replied.
'Why that sounds a tad insubstantial,'
said the smiling English gent
'Unless the bee is enormous
And excessively flatulent
Cut up poem
Why that sounds my mother replied
Said the smiling cat, its shining hide
Unless the bee used to keep
What does he eat our black evil kitty?
Its beef heart and then one day
My mum to keep him pretty
Long ago when scraps the cheapskate
Chopped up meat excessively
And soon in his lap this English guy
Enormous is flatulent
For onyx an English gent
Boiled a tad insubstantial
The Englishman smiled came wandering by
And said lovely, he unknowingly sat
While stroking the cat, cushion
It must be some treat we're cheap
For my dads work was full of cat
Published by John Smither
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21 Comments
Post a CommentA fun challenge!
Cute and clever.
What a fun style to play with, John. Now I'm sorry I didn't try this challenge. Your first one is great. And the "cut up" sounds definitely like a tripped out Louis Carroll character! Good job. Enjoyed this lot. ; )
Excellent!!!
This must have been challenging. Great job though and very creative!
New style to me. The only cut ups I know were how David Bowie wrote his song lyrics. So, another style of poetry to investigate!
I really liked the original poem. If needing to chop something up inspired you to write it, then fine.
Okay...that was very funny...and I liked it...really...it was clever..more clever than I thought this type of poem would be.
Oh, and it was awesome, BTW!
This was very trippy, psychedelic-sounding piece when I read it aloud. (I never tried one of these before. I wish I had more free time! I'm missing out on all these cool poetry challenges!)