Quite palpy and sneeking, Jaul woke with a snarp!

"I must have been floofing", he squawked to his carp

"I floofed of a Plaidy, broozalies and Pelt!

I shnarkle my Plekkle should hear how it felt"

And with that Jaul woozled with plooph to the door

"My Plekkle, sweet Plekkle - I drumble once more!"

Befrumbly he drumbled, and really quite quick!

He floofed of his Plekkle - his doozy was twicked

But O, the contumbly awaiting poor Jaul!

For, just as he scrimbled her dinkle-down wall,

His gloobdove was snarkling alone in a cave -

Quite gorn and forgollum, a grout's flump away!

Her papink had gruppled, old Bokkle was right

The pipple he heard about Jaul he crooked, "Gright!"

Then, all in a plemzy, he'd squined the young quiss,

Galarking,"No noppy shall squiffle you, miss!"

So now, as his Plekkle perflubbled her woe,

Unbissomly Jaul spruttled straight to his foe!

For spleet papink Grunkle had floofed of this doy

He'd refrink his happlet and unflot his sloy!

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This one is for fans of nonsense verse. A tribute to Dr. Seuss, Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, Lewis Carroll and any other nonsense poets you can think of.

Main story is about a couple called Plekkle and Jaul - and their romance.

Guidelines:

Please add at least 4 x 4 line verses in each chapter.

Try and use at least 3 nonsense words per verse.

Desirable metre (or meter,depending on which side of the Atlantic you are!) - Anapestic tetrametre. This metre favoured by Dr Seuss, and it's also the rhythm of the famous poem called ''A Visit From St Nicholas'', which begins ''Twas the Night Before Christmas.''

So it goes: da da DUM, da da DUM, da da DUM, da da DUM. (but you can miss out the first ''da'' at the beginning of a line.)

It's difficult to do, consistently - Dr. Seuss was the master - but looks (and sounds) great, if done well.

The secret is to think up some really nice, funny-sounding words, and it doesn't matter if nobody understands what they mean, as long as it all sounds feasible - if you know what I mean. :-)

updated Jul 5 by Tasha_Noble