The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things:

[oneighty]

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[JitterbugPerfume]

1. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax

of cabbages and kings

[Richardo]

2. Of why the sea is boiling hot,

...and whether pigs have wings.

[oneighty]

3. Thanks Richardo

I did not remember that part.

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[Richardo]

4. The only poetry I've ever memorized without trying is in 'Alice'...

"Jabberwocky" is another one.

[oneighty]

5. Jabberwocky

is who?

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[Richardo]

6. 'Twas brillig, and the slythy toves/did gyre and gimble in the wabe

All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

From 'Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There'

[ET Awful]

7. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

[El Fuego]

13. The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

[oneighty]

8. Ahh

I thought I had read that story as a child. But I do not remember it at all. Might be I am thinking of Alice in Wonderland.

Or maybe I am in wonderland! Strange things happen in old age.

So down the road Eddie goes
Alone and full of sorrow.
He turns around to look behind
To see if any follow.

My world

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[fudge stripe cookays]

9. What?

No Ogden Nash? He's the easiest one of all!

"The one L lama, he's a priest.
The 2 L llama, he's a beast.
And I will bet a silk pajama,
There isn't any 3 L lllama."

:D

[Richardo]

10. Ogden Nash is my favorite poet: "The Ant"

The ant has made himself illustrious
Through constant industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid? :rofl:

[AllegroRondo]

12. Nash is amazing

he's well known for his "animal" poems, but does some equally amazing (and longer) poems about just about every other topic. I got lucky and found a book of his complete works for $12.

The Octopus

Tell me, oh Octopus, I begs
is those things arms,
or is they legs?
If I were you, oh Octopus,
I'd call me "us"


Kittens

The trouble with a kitten is that
eventually it becomes a cat.


And the classic...

Fleas

Adam
had 'em

[El Fuego]

14. Me too!

I memorized "The Walrus and the Carpenter" without realizing it, I still know the whole thing.

[Ivan Sputnik]

11. goo goo ga joob

the Walrus was Paul?