"codswallop" poems - Hello Poetry

I’ve dubbed my wastebasket the wishing well Well I wish for nothing more than a dime of creativity to hit me, ripple across my wrinkles Knocking some sense in, sink beneath my pores So swallow my codswallop wishing well because this is another petty penny for you. © Matthew Harlovic

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Nov 2, 2014

Nov 2, 2014 at 11:34 PM UTC

matthew-harlovic

Wishing Wastebasket

I’ve dubbed my wastebasket the wishing well Well I wish for nothing more than a dime of creativity to hit me, ripple across my wrinkles Knocking some sense in, sink beneath my pores So swallow my codswallop wishing well because this is another petty penny for you. © Matthew Harlovic

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Here Is a timely Noun to consider From the Merriam-Webster page. "Trumpery." Note (at bottom) the list of near-antonyms; what is the opposite of trumpery? [Popularity: Bottom 40% of words] trumpery noun trum·pery \ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē\ Definition of trumpery 1 a : worthless nonsense b : trivial or useless articles : junk <a wagon loaded with household trumpery — Washington Irving> 2 archaic : ****** finery Origin of trumpery Middle English (Scots) trompery deceit, from Middle French, from tromper to deceive First Known Use: 15th century Examples of trumpery <claims for weight-loss products that are based much more on Madison-Avenue trumpery than on bariatric science> Related to trumpery Synonyms applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or ******** claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, ******* senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, nonsense, twaddle Related Words absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus Near Antonyms levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom By: Robinson Bolkum

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Jan 3, 2016

Jan 3, 2016 at 6:44 PM UTC

mary-balcom

Trumpery

Here Is a timely Noun to consider From the Merriam-Webster page. "Trumpery." Note (at bottom) the list of near-antonyms; what is the opposite of trumpery? [Popularity: Bottom 40% of words] trumpery noun trum·pery \ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē\ Definition of trumpery 1 a : worthless nonsense b : trivial or useless articles : junk <a wagon loaded with household trumpery — Washington Irving> 2 archaic : ****** finery Origin of trumpery Middle English (Scots) trompery deceit, from Middle French, from tromper to deceive First Known Use: 15th century Examples of trumpery <claims for weight-loss products that are based much more on Madison-Avenue trumpery than on bariatric science> Related to trumpery Synonyms applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or ******** claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, ******* senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, nonsense, twaddle Related Words absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus Near Antonyms levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom By: Robinson Bolkum

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That's Nonsense! That's beans! babble! bunkum! bogus! baloney! blither! blather! blah blah! ******** balderdash! blarney! ******** That's crapola! claptrap! codswallop! That's drivel! That's fiddlesticks! flapdoodle! frippery! folderol! That's guff garbage gibberish! gobbledygook! That's horse hockey! hocus-pocus! hokum! hogwash! humbug! hooey! humdrum! That's jibber-jabber! jive! jazz! That's malarkey! mumbo-jumbo! monkeyshines! That's Nuts! That's poppycock! piffle! prattle! That, sir, is ******* and RIGMAROLE! That's trash tripe and twaddle That, sir, is NONSENSE!

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Mar 14, 2015

Mar 14, 2015 at 7:09 PM UTC

iliveinyourhead

That's Nonsense!

That's Nonsense! That's beans! babble! bunkum! bogus! baloney! blither! blather! blah blah! ******** balderdash! blarney! ******** That's crapola! claptrap! codswallop! That's drivel! That's fiddlesticks! flapdoodle! frippery! folderol! That's guff garbage gibberish! gobbledygook! That's horse hockey! hocus-pocus! hokum! hogwash! humbug! hooey! humdrum! That's jibber-jabber! jive! jazz! That's malarkey! mumbo-jumbo! monkeyshines! That's Nuts! That's poppycock! piffle! prattle! That, sir, is ******* and RIGMAROLE! That's trash tripe and twaddle That, sir, is NONSENSE!

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I’ve reached the age when most of my contemporaries have kicked the bucket, turned up their toes, popped their clogs, and other such unsavoury activities. I take every opportunity to memorialise their lives. The question I ask myself is: when I finally pop my clogs, kick the bucket, and so on who will provide the tribute to me? De mortuis nil nisi bonum is the Latin phrase of Greek invention. Speak nothing but good of the dead. I cannot accept this. What good can I speak of Adolf ****** Osama Bin Laden or even Senator Joe McCarthy? Better would be De mortuis nil nisi veritas. Speak nothing but the truth. But, if I had to choose one for my own obituary, I think I would turn to the late, great Harold Laski, who coined De mortuis nil nisi bunkum. I’d be very happy to have nothing but claptrap talked about me. after my demise. At least let there be something written, be it good, truth or codswallop

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Oct 21, 2016

Oct 21, 2016 at 3:34 PM UTC

joseph-sinclair

De Mortuis

I’ve reached the age when most of my contemporaries have kicked the bucket, turned up their toes, popped their clogs, and other such unsavoury activities. I take every opportunity to memorialise their lives. The question I ask myself is: when I finally pop my clogs, kick the bucket, and so on who will provide the tribute to me? De mortuis nil nisi bonum is the Latin phrase of Greek invention. Speak nothing but good of the dead. I cannot accept this. What good can I speak of Adolf ****** Osama Bin Laden or even Senator Joe McCarthy? Better would be De mortuis nil nisi veritas. Speak nothing but the truth. But, if I had to choose one for my own obituary, I think I would turn to the late, great Harold Laski, who coined De mortuis nil nisi bunkum. I’d be very happy to have nothing but claptrap talked about me. after my demise. At least let there be something written, be it good, truth or codswallop

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i might be cruel at times, but one thing is for sure: truth always is, esp. when drinking. i find the concept of the "rhetorical" question slightly bewildering, it's simple enough - whenever a "rhetorical" question is asked you rarely hear a counter - the person asking the "rhetorical" question in all instances continues the "conversation" - by a rhetorical question i'm sure the implication states (as asked): that i invite you into the discussion - and, from what i've heard or seen, that's rarely the case! why ask a rhetorical question when only the rhetorician asking the question is the only person answering it? the smug punctuation mark and cliche that a "rhetorical" question has become is just that, a semicolon in a monologue... how about asking a solipsistic question? you know, pierce the membrane, get someone out of their head, out of the pronoun hemisphere - and into: hey, john, what's your take on it? to ask a persuading question to later add that it is a "persuading" question, does not really invoke a persuasive counter answer - this entire "rhetorical" question is a pompous double-under-cut against dialectical fluidity - fuck's sake, people had to found debating societies to speak in godot's terms, and as ever, a man in his 30s and a man in his 70s, and a park bench, is all it takes to be civil... obviously the 30s man asking permission of the 70s man if he can continue drinking his beer and smoking a cigarette. rhetorical my *** just say it plainly: it's not a question, it's a self-empowering answer - to continue the monologue - there is no such thing as a "rhetorical" question, simply because once the "question" is asked, it's swept under the carpet - because whenever a rhetorical "question" is asked, it's embedded in a quick-answer dynamic of the person making such a bogus request... no one has ever answered a "rhetorical" question, simply because the only person who can answer such a question, is the rhetorician himself... codswallop... that's what it is... it's also called the barometer tactic of checking if you're insane, when you talk to yourself when you're alone... hazelnuts 'n' all... by the way... you want to stage a horror movie scene? have a drink, no, have lots of drinks, drink the whole **** bottle of wine... but! but... have a mirror in front of you - nothing shows as much truth as a drunk narcissus - then again, if it was a puddle of ***** do you think he would have fallen in love with his visage? like any mug of a man after five pints and six shots later: she was a 4 when i began, but now? she's a tenner, an alsatian stunner! oh right, they always say: it's not a rhetorical question... so? it's not really a question at all, is it? it's a self-serving answer... and that always seemed to bother me, why ask a question you already know the answer to? oh, right: to gain rhetorical momentum, and double-up on hushing the oppositional argument.

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Sep 22, 2017

Sep 22, 2017 at 11:26 AM UTC

removed.polaroid-scrabble

the rhetorical "question"

i might be cruel at times, but one thing is for sure: truth always is, esp. when drinking. i find the concept of the "rhetorical" question slightly bewildering, it's simple enough - whenever a "rhetorical" question is asked you rarely hear a counter - the person asking the "rhetorical" question in all instances continues the "conversation" - by a rhetorical question i'm sure the implication states (as asked): that i invite you into the discussion - and, from what i've heard or seen, that's rarely the case! why ask a rhetorical question when only the rhetorician asking the question is the only person answering it? the smug punctuation mark and cliche that a "rhetorical" question has become is just that, a semicolon in a monologue... how about asking a solipsistic question? you know, pierce the membrane, get someone out of their head, out of the pronoun hemisphere - and into: hey, john, what's your take on it? to ask a persuading question to later add that it is a "persuading" question, does not really invoke a persuasive counter answer - this entire "rhetorical" question is a pompous double-under-cut against dialectical fluidity - fuck's sake, people had to found debating societies to speak in godot's terms, and as ever, a man in his 30s and a man in his 70s, and a park bench, is all it takes to be civil... obviously the 30s man asking permission of the 70s man if he can continue drinking his beer and smoking a cigarette. rhetorical my *** just say it plainly: it's not a question, it's a self-empowering answer - to continue the monologue - there is no such thing as a "rhetorical" question, simply because once the "question" is asked, it's swept under the carpet - because whenever a rhetorical "question" is asked, it's embedded in a quick-answer dynamic of the person making such a bogus request... no one has ever answered a "rhetorical" question, simply because the only person who can answer such a question, is the rhetorician himself... codswallop... that's what it is... it's also called the barometer tactic of checking if you're insane, when you talk to yourself when you're alone... hazelnuts 'n' all... by the way... you want to stage a horror movie scene? have a drink, no, have lots of drinks, drink the whole **** bottle of wine... but! but... have a mirror in front of you - nothing shows as much truth as a drunk narcissus - then again, if it was a puddle of ***** do you think he would have fallen in love with his visage? like any mug of a man after five pints and six shots later: she was a 4 when i began, but now? she's a tenner, an alsatian stunner! oh right, they always say: it's not a rhetorical question... so? it's not really a question at all, is it? it's a self-serving answer... and that always seemed to bother me, why ask a question you already know the answer to? oh, right: to gain rhetorical momentum, and double-up on hushing the oppositional argument.

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If its meant to bug the bug must have died If its meant to torment the pain can't be found If its meant to taunt the imbeciles are not making sense If its meant to degrade the commodity reads 'non-degradable' If its meant to ridicule its become a case of 'from the ridiculous to the sublime' If its meant to destabilize the foundation is unshakable and holds firm If its meant to remind staged and artificial memories are null and void If its meant to sow doubts and uncertainties the seeds are edible parrot seeds and can't germinate If its meant to confuse and haze the teacher has a fool-proof dictionary If its meant to overload thoughts and mind kid's nursery rhymes are not meant for erudite considerations If its meant to depress and demoralize Actors know characterizations are discarded off-stage So what have we got Well, on the news today, it says more and more youths having mental health issues without adequate treatment facilities unfortunately the internet provides an outlet for dark expressions Ah so what we have are dark and damaged minds sad, frustrated, angry venting the tosh, codswallop, frenzied sick crazed deluded outpouring of the pathetic inadequate souls suffering....suffering desperately looking for relief, anything to make them feel just a bit better!

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Jul 18, 2019

Jul 18, 2019 at 7:34 AM UTC

yenson

No!..I'm on my computer...

If its meant to bug the bug must have died If its meant to torment the pain can't be found If its meant to taunt the imbeciles are not making sense If its meant to degrade the commodity reads 'non-degradable' If its meant to ridicule its become a case of 'from the ridiculous to the sublime' If its meant to destabilize the foundation is unshakable and holds firm If its meant to remind staged and artificial memories are null and void If its meant to sow doubts and uncertainties the seeds are edible parrot seeds and can't germinate If its meant to confuse and haze the teacher has a fool-proof dictionary If its meant to overload thoughts and mind kid's nursery rhymes are not meant for erudite considerations If its meant to depress and demoralize Actors know characterizations are discarded off-stage So what have we got Well, on the news today, it says more and more youths having mental health issues without adequate treatment facilities unfortunately the internet provides an outlet for dark expressions Ah so what we have are dark and damaged minds sad, frustrated, angry venting the tosh, codswallop, frenzied sick crazed deluded outpouring of the pathetic inadequate souls suffering....suffering desperately looking for relief, anything to make them feel just a bit better!

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You're all fools, you know I'm right You just don't wanna see it You don't wanna deal with it You tainted my beer, painted my name A new colour of thinking Outrageous codswallop Infamous gossip Destructive worship I don't struggle to sit on the outside Just to melt in the rain I have a tolerance I have a conscience I have a condition You're all fools, and you know that I'm right If you don't believe me then just read my Holy scroll that rests atop The mountain of Timbuktu You'll spit a taste so vile Villainous beliefs, total nonsense But I'm a copper skinned fool Who thinks for himself Deal with it You go on keep reading the **** From the Masses Hope it's a hit You mindless tail Swinging off a Gutless *****

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Jul 6, 2017

Jul 6, 2017 at 11:26 PM UTC

jp-mantler

Mass Brainwashed Society

You're all fools, you know I'm right You just don't wanna see it You don't wanna deal with it You tainted my beer, painted my name A new colour of thinking Outrageous codswallop Infamous gossip Destructive worship I don't struggle to sit on the outside Just to melt in the rain I have a tolerance I have a conscience I have a condition You're all fools, and you know that I'm right If you don't believe me then just read my Holy scroll that rests atop The mountain of Timbuktu You'll spit a taste so vile Villainous beliefs, total nonsense But I'm a copper skinned fool Who thinks for himself Deal with it You go on keep reading the **** From the Masses Hope it's a hit You mindless tail Swinging off a Gutless *****

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It was the glen of jabberwocky, Deep within the twaddle mire. The gobbledygook was being spewed By the grand codswallop, The tripe was drivel And all manner of blethered haver Did most piffle & bosh. The great imperial hooey of guff-phooey Visited with bunk, There was to be a festivity of the tommyrot; On the morrow we would dribble bull Till the cobblers called tosh, **** cod, And said their applesauce. No malarkey here crosses their fingers, For all the liars have bellywash And work the flapdoodle with bunkum & bushwa. All the poppycocks we laid out For the celebration of the gibberish, When mumbo jumbo hung a more, Low & long. On the fens of the balderdash, At the mouth of the babble, We sang the song of argle-bargle By our native tongue jargon. It was first rate flummery By the standards of the order of palaver, The prime wheedlers of gab & fanster.

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Mar 1, 2025

Mar 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM UTC

manx-kronos-pragna

Yet, No One Could Understand Us!

It was the glen of jabberwocky, Deep within the twaddle mire. The gobbledygook was being spewed By the grand codswallop, The tripe was drivel And all manner of blethered haver Did most piffle & bosh. The great imperial hooey of guff-phooey Visited with bunk, There was to be a festivity of the tommyrot; On the morrow we would dribble bull Till the cobblers called tosh, **** cod, And said their applesauce. No malarkey here crosses their fingers, For all the liars have bellywash And work the flapdoodle with bunkum & bushwa. All the poppycocks we laid out For the celebration of the gibberish, When mumbo jumbo hung a more, Low & long. On the fens of the balderdash, At the mouth of the babble, We sang the song of argle-bargle By our native tongue jargon. It was first rate flummery By the standards of the order of palaver, The prime wheedlers of gab & fanster.

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Thought I heard a stream burbling but realised it was a baby burbling and the stream gurgling was in my imagination, these things are sent to try us, well I've tried me for years and years and I still don't fit into myself. more imagination seems to be the baby or the stream that burbles or gurgles in me, now, I have to lie down and think about this which saves me from doing anything else.

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Jun 26, 2023

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:40 AM UTC

john-edward-smallshaw

15 Codswallop Court

Thought I heard a stream burbling but realised it was a baby burbling and the stream gurgling was in my imagination, these things are sent to try us, well I've tried me for years and years and I still don't fit into myself. more imagination seems to be the baby or the stream that burbles or gurgles in me, now, I have to lie down and think about this which saves me from doing anything else.

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One hears of a load of codswallop But no one knows what a codswallop is And only by the load, or can you buy a dollop? And just who is in the codswallop biz?

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Apr 18, 2019

Apr 18, 2019 at 5:07 PM UTC

lawrence-hall

A Load or Two of Codswallop

One hears of a load of codswallop But no one knows what a codswallop is And only by the load, or can you buy a dollop? And just who is in the codswallop biz?

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