ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

I've written a one word poem, I call it....

MONOLOGOS



Floccinaucinihilipilification.



Neville Briggs


p.s. The word means the action or habit of estimating something as worthless, which is probably the reaction of the viewers to my poem.

Well Neville, are you going to complete your hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian piece in a rhyme?
(One word is very monotonous) ...

Manfred. It must rhyme, after all it is only one word, a perfect rhyme. And it must scan, the metre is perfectly consistent with itself.

Last year at Dunedoo, Milton Taylor did a two word poem. It didn't rhyme or scan, It was free verse


Neville

Or this could be the second line in abab pattern

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolocanoconiosis

A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.

TTFN

Sorry Nev, "a rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words"


DAVO, I never knew you were a miner!!! ...

You never fail to amuse, intrigue and educate us Neville.

I agree with Manfred though. For there to be a rhyme you must have two words.

Manfred I was but now I am a Senior and this poetry stuff has still got me Bugged.

Neville I am following your chat with Peely with great interest, syllables cause me stress.

TFFN

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolocanoconiosis

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian

Floccinaucinihilipilification.


They all sound like types of antibiotics or very very nasty diseases to me

Heather you would never want to catch any of them ‘cos ya couldn’t pronounce them for the doctor hey.

TTFN

No Dave, I would just say "I'm sick doc, what's wrong with me?"