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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"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 maxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while in thought.
As in uffish thought he stood,
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.
"Has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
"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.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
    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.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
    He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)
acacia Apr 2021
there did I ever see someone near me: but then she sang so beautifully that it could be done, and that I could be One again
but the truth is, I was always One and my body seemed to forgot,
my mind floated around somewhere that wasn't where I was right now
my mind thinks and my body feels and I observe
my mind must be where my body is right now
my mind breathes in and out
my mind breathes in
my mind breathes out
my mind sees white walls
my mind types on a keyboard
my mind sits on a bed
my mind confuses and stumbles over words
my mind scans over keyboards
relinquished days my mind must be here
my mind is somewhere here
and my body is somewhere, where? it is here,
in a room? in a state? in the air? no, it's somewhere
here in this bed, on a cotton sheet with decaying green, yellowly orange, and a sweet little blue it reminds me of "you"
then my sheets, satin and in my nap this morning reminded me of water
yeah, thin layer of water above me, floating and squiggling like ripples in a rivet, rivet dream, river dream, rolling rivers, flowing and floating lonely: alone, all-one, dreams
and my leg hair stands slightly,
my body mutters to this song and smiles at the word lyrical
swinging sways, my body doesn't matter but my mind seems to think otherwise,
and my mind says hey! forget it!
my body looks both ways, and my mouth continues to chime out and mutters and sputters and spits and drips! i drool and i drizzle all the way into ... not town, into my bed. i'm in my bed,
and sometimes i feel free! I think I feel free! now!  i am free, the miracle breezes on me,
and i can feel this ceiling fan drizzling air on to me now and
frosting sifted through dreams and dawns the light is a dawn: the light bulb replicates the dawn, the strings are just strings and my body smiles my body coos and curls up into my shoulders, ooh my body swoons and *****, curls up into my shoulders, baby! my body moves left to right: presently, yes I am present! I think I am! i know! my mind smiles and my body smiles, fluttering unity and i am present my turls, toes, qworls and whirls! curl! they wiggle! words mean nothing to describe this madness and this chaos and this structure and the form and the beauty my head sways to sing and my body juts forward, backward,
sea of dainty leaves, thin water, a translucent daisy sky blue, a new blue, perhaps, a new one:
whiteish blue, translucent blue, ethereal light sky baby clear blue: what can words do? daddy, what can they do?
water blue? the water is the color of the water and the blue and my stomach rings with happiness joys that fills my dantian: and some tapping, my body smiles, curling lips and joyous flips!
slythersnake18 Jan 2015
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"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.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  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.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.
Fire Fox May 2015
'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"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 Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwocky, 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 it's head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe.

-Lewis Carroll
She always kept her back very straight,
and the men would drape
themselves across her shape
and around her waist–
take on the form she gave.

Fleet fingers wave the same way,
leading about
all of the strays.
Me, I'm some sort of prey
for this creature, kyrie.

Coin-covered costume with colored cloth
combing coiffures
into a froth.
Gypsy girl getting dressed.
Them eye's beheld n' them eye's lost.

Coocoo Callay, what did I say?
I gave it weight,
now she looks dismayed,
betrayed I'll stay.
Maybe see her some other day.

Always, always's so full of maybes
from where you came
to this ****** maze, reasons the same,
to be somebody's baby.
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2020
Fox News
Disgusting Americans

Ignorant racists
Have their sway

The Republican Party
Enemy of humanity

May it be destroyed
Some fine day
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Our politics Abysmality
I walk the little way
Red Pine's beauty book
Basketball to play

Will I live in libraries?
Will I callooh! callay!?
Tired. Exoplanets.
Tired. Si xie xie.

Solitude is loneliness
And peace. And dropping slow.
Have not been to Greece
Istanbul in snow!

Know No Golden Fleece
Yoko yo yo yo yo
Sting and the Police
On and on we go

        Synchronicity!
Donall Dempsey Aug 2021
TEA BREAK EVERY OTHER DAY

"Tea?" enquired
the Jabberwocky
pleasantly

"Thanks awfully!"
smiled Alice politely
pleased to take a break

"One lump or
. . . two?"
growled the Jabberwocky

"None, thank you very much!"
Alice replied
in her best mimsy voice.

"I keep changing
dress sizes
these days!"

"Blueberry Bakewell ****?"
smirked the Jabberwocky
mockingly

Alice shook her head
furiously
trying to rid herself of the thought

"Or maybe...."
beamed the Jabberwocky
"Some Callooh! Callay! Cake!”

"Eh...ah...no - YES...FRABJOUS!"
Alice had no sooner
made up her mind but

she changed it again
as her mind kept
jumping around

"I keep hearing voices
. . .reciting me!"
burbled the Jabberwocky

"What! You hearing them too!"
wondered Alice uffishly
"...how....curious?"

"And in languages unknown
'Fushigi no kuni no Aris.'
I can't even speak Anime!"

"And I seemed to be
made more and more of words?"
she stood awhile in thought

"Ok! Mr. Jabberwocky...Miss Alice
curtain up in five please
a child is about to read you!"

"Well here we go
it's brillig again!"
whiffled Alice frumiously

"Maybe this time
I'll win perhaps?"
galumphed the Jabberwocky

"Ha!" said Alice
"You wish...Ha!"
she haa'd again

and then the child
turned the page
and the poem appeared

for the first time
in her eyes
as new as forever
**
(ふしぎの国のアリス, Fushigi no Kuni no Arisu) is an anime adaptation of the 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which ran on the TV Tokyo network and other local stations across Japan from October 10, 1983 to March 26, 1984. The series was a Japanese-German co-production between Nippon Animation, TV Tokyo affiliate station TV Osaka, and Apollo Films. The series consists of 52 episodes, however, only 26 made it to the US.
In the English language, this series is generally overshadowed by the success of Disney's 1951 feature film version of the story; however, the anime series was quite popular in various European countries, in Israel, in the Philippines, in Latin America, in Iran, and in the Arabic-speaking world. The series was also dubbed into Hindi by the national film development board of India and telecast on Doordarshan in the early 1990s.
The language with the most editions of the Alice in Wonderland novels in translation is Japanese, with 1,271 editions.
This was inspired by the photographs on the set of Frankenstein which show the Monster and his creator having a *** and a cuppa and one could imagine somebody calling "Ok guys....back into the scene!" And Boris stops being Karloff and lumbers back into being the Monster whilst still chewing a Custard Cream. "Ok...action...,lights!"
So I also thought that the Jabberwocky and Alice get breaks from being themselves in a fictional way until someone somewhere picks up the wonderful book and begins to read the famous poem. The Jabberwocky, his mouth stuffed full of Chocolate Bourbons as he lumbers after Alice and hopes that this time he will come out on tops...not realising he is doomed to fail time after time.
Tired. Exoplanets.
Got my shot today
Bipolar roller
My sons: callooh! callay!

Students getting arrested
Administrators call police
Maybe South Korea
Maybe Ancient Greece

Vegetarian tacos
Basketball at night
I rest, yes I rest
Sor Juana's mystic flight

          Gatsby's green light
Robert C Howard Sep 2020
O frabjous day! Callooh Callay

My new book of poems From the Mountain to the Sea is now available from Amazon.com Hope you enjoy it!

Here is a link:

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Qualyxian Quest Nov 2021
A little breakfast this morning
Finally I relax
The Secret of Roan Inish
The mystery of Jax

Doctor's appointment today
I hope she understands
My sons callooh! callay!
Little River Band

I saw Angkor Wat
Rode the Taipei train
Never been to heaven
Never been to Spain

I like the colleges
But just to walk around
Americans all want freedom
I want higher ground

            David Markson
             Ks Ezra Pound
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
China might be rocking
Weapons in Taipei
Time is still tick tocking
Californ I A

7th grade English
1 poem a day
Robert Frost. Dylan Thomas.
Emily can play!

My poetry is simple
Dawn goes down to day
Stay Gold! Ponyboy
My sons: callooh! callay!

Little Sage Ridge School
Shakespeare has his say
Staunton aglow in snow
Tienmu xie xie

         For her I pray
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2022
3:40 and I'm awake
Nightshift in my mind
Marvin Gaye, callooh! callay!
Please be a friend in time

Anxiety attacks
I fight on and struggle through
River Eden in the mist
I'm Carolina blue

Try to get to Halloween
Waiting on a friend
Maybe no one understands
Maybe just pretend

But maybe baby lightning strikes
My words they touch her soul
Mystery in history
We live to rock n' roll

                 We stroll.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2021
8:37
My boy is 8 today

Remember Santa Rosa
Remember Callooh! Callay!

Keep your, Keep your joy
Let it lingerstay

I miss you, my wondrous boy
May you proceed to play!
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2019
aliens in the parking lot
but New Mexico far away

green indeed means to me
far more than I can say

7:37 and I’m home by 11
Stanley Yelnats and Zero today

my sons and I reunite
the grateful calloo callay
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2019
childhood with sports and games
  may the play each day still stay
     protective, reflective names
                 hey, hey, hey

                callooh! callay!
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
Todd's barbaric Yawp
But today I go to play

Long live Robin Williams!
A teacher all the way

Beware the Jabberwock
Remember Callooh! Callay!

Obsessions haunt my soul
Tell her I say Hey!
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
It's not true
The various religions
Modernity arrives
Just sweeps 'em away

Science fiction
The Sacred hides
She was not my bride
Callooh! Callay!

Sage Ridge School
Reno blue
Basketball too
Yesterday

Drift toward death
Anxious breath
Silently, Seth
Julius Caesar the play

       Cinna the poet!
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2019
wish we could turn back time
to the good old days

but it rolls right on
and for sins I pay

blue southern sky
for my family I pray

demons drive
but angels say

try again
fears allay

don’t give up
callooh callay!
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
Costa Rica this morning
Costa Rica and St. John
Coincidence and mystery
The Road goes ever on

Slowly guacamole
Let the music play
Jo Jo's Arizona
My callooh! callay!

Step by step by flight
Early Saturday
Jodi Picoult alights
Life of Pi to pray

Still got a few ideas
I plot and plant to place
Quiet conversations
The charm, the change, the chase

                  Hearts: Ace.
Qualyxian Quest May 2021
most of my fears are not real
but they oppress me anyway

just want to see my sons
remember Callooh! Callay!

life is suffering
quietness: xie xie

waiting for the phone calls
waiting all the day

               hey! hey!
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
I pray to the protective spirits
Spritely Peter Pan
Please keep him calm
I'm no fancy Dan

From the terror that comes at night
And the arrow that flies by day
Beware the Jabberwock
My son callooh! callay!

To sleep perchance to dream
To dream in peace of love
Thank you Father Greeley
Thank you Andy Dove

Sunny Italy
Courage in the fear
Un pequito basketball
3 dear deer

          Aqui. A sea. Hear here.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Robin Williams
Cremated in San Anselmo
Ashes to the San Francisco Bay
My my hey hey

Episcopal
Catholic Light
Chicago
Mr. Keating. Long May ....

Only free in dreams
Thank you, Sean
Journey on.
Callooh! Callay!

Alakazam
Mork from Ork
Teacher to Todd
Live to teach another day

            Yea verily. Yea.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2021
just an any old kind of day
the kind that comes and slips away

Harry Chapin in the mist today
Episcopal priests do privately pray

Mother Mary in the month of May
But it's February, so alone I stay

many moons ago I left Taipei
does she think of me? most likely nay.

hey that's alright:  Callooh! Callay!
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2021
like the early aware Venetians
I'd like to hide away

place a bet for beauty
quietly not today

the future for my sons
against America Xie Xie

water wisdom waiting
aha! callooh. callay.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2021
There's no real happiness
Or when it comes, it slips away

Life is misery
Today is a grey day

I walk the train tracks
My sons:  Callooh! Callay!

Rain came down came rain
I came down hey hey!
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2022
So they laugh at me. So what?
Earnest, Hemingway.
Once I was a teacher
Dawn goes down to day

Extinction is forever
That's what biologists say
Blackie Ryan - he was clever
Silent is the Way

Waiting as I'm drifting
My sons: Callooh! Callay!
He loves Kanye West
I love Marvin Gaye

Loneliness is painful
Still i say xie xie
Rainy Night in Georgia
Rockabye in L. A.

            Santa Fe
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
2023 is coming
I'm gonna wait awhile
There is no rush
There is no rush

Be a taxi service
Clean my car
Organize my house
Live to fight another day

See the doc
Lose the clock
Find the rock
Callooh! Callay!

Emily
In my solitude
What a dream!
Crush.

            Una dia.
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2021
I know there ain't no hope
But the headache gone today
My sons swim in the pool
Silently I pray
To treasure the time we have
My sons, Callooh! Callay!
The joys slip on by
But I watch you as you play

                 Xie Xie
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
Protective prayers
From the terror in the night
The arrow that flies by day
Keep him safe from harm
Keep him. Callooh! Callay!

Celtics on the break
Wizards surely May
Friends and teams, good dreams
Melville y Taipei

         Yea verily. Yea.
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2019
6:37 almost here
maybe Mass today

I’ll sit in back, then disappear
silence is how I pray

The Sociopath has to go
we say calloo callay

I’d like to find another country
and wayfare within the Way
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2021
The aggressive feelings frighten me
But I saw the water today
Wedded meditation
Come forth callooh! callay!

Still I try for dailiness
For protection I do pray
Love is patient and kind
In France the little way

      Merci, Simone Weil.
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
No one at all important
Which is fine by me
Got some books to read
In 2023

Got some movies to watch
Got some vinyl to play
I am a taxi service
Q callooh! callay!

The sun breaks through my window
She begins to sway
Tell her I wish her the best
Sweet William on his deathbed lay

                    Mercy. Mercy.
                           I pray.
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2021
Cam Cam I am tonight
We talk of kangaroos

Wouldn't mind Australia
But if I had to choose

I would choose New Zealand
Then back to dear Taipei

Goodnight, my precious boy
Frabjous joy: callooh! callay!
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
Don McLean sang that Vincent
Was too beautiful for this world
And his eyes were China blue

But Jerusalem, Jerusalem
That just ain't true

You should leave the NRA, Don
See what Jason Selvig means

By the way, callooh! callay!
Vincent's eyes were green

(mine too)
And Mr. Markson's on my team

         Stealing Home it seems.

— The End —