(Narrative Nonsense)

All slay the miny virona!
No huffling, no puffling, no ruffling of breeze
No warignal of it in the beginning
Except sniffs and snivels and maybe a sneeze!
Slyowly fever in some bodies did seize
The infernal virona was suddenly flourishing
No huffling, no puffling, a slight ruffling of breeze.
We blamed everyone’s aunt, as well as the Chinese
Masking reluctrily as via air it was travelling
More than sniffs and snivels and a whole lot of sneezes!
Knights in white coats toiled coavidly without cease
As the miny virona went merrily globe trotting
No huffling, no puffling, mighty ruffling of breeze.
Jabbing aggressively is the only way to freeze
The hopkip journey of this thingamajig
Attacking us with sniffs and snivels and maybe a sneeze!
Time to attwart its relentless sprees
Our weapons distancing, masking and jabbing
No huffling, no piffling but ruffling of breeze
Defighting sniffs, snivels and that darn sneeze!
Written for dVerse MTB. Today’s host, BjΓΆrn, says: follow your own heart and amuse us all, you can use any poetic device you want to use, rhyme, repetition, alliteration. I would be super glad to see if anyone comes up with a nonsense Villanelle for instance.
Spot on Punam. Delightful poem
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Thanks, Sadje. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Youβre welcome my dear sister
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Haha, this is a fun Villanelle. π
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Happy that you enjoyed it, Aishwarya. π
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Love your whimsy flimsy grimmsy primmsy and crispy narration Putnam ..and your wondrously wordsy poem had me smirking in my coividy mask ππππ
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Ivor, you made my day with your lovesy comment! Thank you! πππ
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My pleasures
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If we get this poem out to enough people, we might get herd immunity.
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Darius, that is my hope! π
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Hahaha.. Banged on darling.. Loved it.. πππππ€ππβ€
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Lol! Thanks a ton, dearie! π π π₯°π€
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This is ingenious, Punam! My fave pick is the word “slyowly”…I may have to find a use for it–if so I’ll credit/link to you!!
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You don’t have to give me credit for it, just use it whenever and wherever you want, dear Z!
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Ohh, aren’t you the sweetest–thank you, Punam!!π
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Wonderfully creative Punam and very fitting for our times, kind of like a cross between The Life of Brian and some sort of sci fi epic. Loved it! π
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That’s high praise, Miriam! Thanks so much. πβ€οΈ
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Lol this was a fun poem narrating the story of our pandemic as such, p’raps people will take it seriously after laughing at this poem π
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Lol Veera! I hope so. π
Should I send it to newspapers? π€π
Thank you.
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I think they need their own dose of laughter π
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This is a fun filled poetry format. Your poetry is hilarious. Bang on! π Lols hahaha
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Kritika, so happy you enjoyed it! π
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My pleasure always kindly π π
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Wonderful tone, and tale of woe…must have been inspired by some event…light and lovely…
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Thanks, Ain! Covid is certainly inspiring. π
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This was a delight! Gesundheit!!
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Thank you, Val!
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This is brilliant, Punam: extra congrats for making it a Villanelle! β€οΈ
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Thanks a lot, Ingrid! πβ€οΈβ€οΈ
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If ever there was cause to laugh about the ‘virona’ … that time is NOW! Brilliant.
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Thanks a lot, Helen!
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Good graphic and pointedly topical tale. Well-done, Punam!
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Li, thanks a lot! β€οΈ
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You’re very welcome β€
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Delightful repeat line in this verse. Humor really is a great healer, and a way to diffuse tension. Wonderful.
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Thanks a lot, K! Humour for sure is a great healer.
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Very clever wordplay, Punam!
“Knights in white coats toiled coavidly without cease” – Love this line π
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Thanks so much, dear. Glad you enjoyed it. π
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You’re most welcome π
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Oh wow you are so good at poetry – you made this so fun, enjoyable to read and so meaningful to the times! :)))
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I am happy that you found it fun and enjoyable, Pragalbha. πβ€οΈ
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Fantastico! This deserves to be widely read. I’m sure a newspaper or magazine would be only too happy to publish this! Well written indeed!
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Carol, heartfelt thanks for your appreciation!
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So much fun, Punam, and very creative.
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Have ranted enough about it, time to change tactics…maybe the humourless virus will take offense and disappear! See, I always live on hope! π€¦π»ββοΈ
Thanks, Tracy. π
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You do, β€
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A great poem. When I saw the picture, it reminded me of the Mucinex commercial where the stewardess bumps the big green booger into the toilet and flushes him down. Too bad we can’t do that with covid!
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Oh, I wish that could be done, Dwight! Thanks a lot.
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Hahaha! That is awesome, Punam. Creativity unleashed on the virus. Love it! β€οΈ
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Unfortunately it won’t still kill it! Lol
Thanks so much, Jeff. β€οΈ
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Wish it would! Youβre most welcome, Punam. Always. β€οΈ
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Ha ha good one on Virona ππ
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So happy you enjoyed it! π π
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OMG this is so good. Contemporary, urgent, serious and yet still amusing.
Happy you dropped by to read mine
Much love…
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Gillena, thank you so much!
You are welcome.
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This is great fun to read – about time we got a laugh out of the miny virona!
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Indeed Marion, it is high time we do! Better to deal with it with humour than anxiety.
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We need to some fun ways to tell this grim tale, well done.
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So we do, BjΓΆrn.
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I couldn’t stop laughing, in spite of the seriousness of the topic. I had the Knack tune for My Sharona playing to Miny Virona too.
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Better to laugh than rant, Paul! Now why didn’t I think of My Sharona while writing this! Glad it reminded you of that. π
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oh well done, ‘miny verona’ indeed … think you incorporated everything they asked for and more, well done sis!
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Thanks, sis! Back from your break? You were missed.
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torrential rain for nearly 24 hours, if the sun and warmth return I could go MIA again π
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Who wouldn’t if the weather is good…
It has been a very cold week here.
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crazy extreme weather patterns everywhere … today the beach was buried under sea foam and coconuts still in their husks from Tonga …
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Tonga had it really bad! Here, we have not seen the sun for the past ten days!
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the heavy grey clouds are back with bursts of rain …
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