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Title: The Frozen Case of the Talking Icicle
Author: Richard Walker
Source: A Sense of Humore! (2005)
Rating: 4.5 laurels out of 5 laurels.
Richard Walker's poem "The Frozen Case of the Talking Icicle" is a non-metered verse using non-sensical rhyme technique made famous by the late Dr. Seuss.
The poem is about the coming of winter and talking icicles.
The poet uses alliteration -
"you pencilest, profoundiest, poetiest, poethamiest czar."
The poet uses internal rhyme:
"the grandiest, spithiest, wittiest, icicliest"
He also uses terminal rhyme:
Poet, Poet, with the fake pen
writing icicliest poems in the den.
Dr. Seuss likes to coin new words that are so long and sometimes cannot be found in the dictionary. The poet also coins new long words in his poem - "hydrointeractiveplasmic snout".
"and melt your hydrointeractiveplasmic snout "
Nonsensical rhymes is part of pop culture. It seems to me that Dr. Seuss has a disciple. Nonsensical rhymes are here to stay.
This poem is nominated "Best Poem of Year 2005 for the 2nd Muses Prize" for its humor.
A Sense of Humore!
by Richard Walker
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The Frozen Case of the Talking Icicle
(Beward the Ides of Winter)
by Richard Walker
Source: A Sense of Humore, p. 24
Printer: Fidlar Doubleday
If winter comes can talking icicles be far behind?
(Do these bonus extra subtitles ever cease?)
It ain't over ti'll the last fat snowflake melts - or talking icicle,
(Or until I've crossed all the I's and dotted all the T's)
Icicle, Icicle, hanging on the wall
who's the pointiest, slipperiest
pencilest, profoundiest
poetiest poet of them all?
Poet, Poet, with the fake pen
writing icicliest poems in the den.
If you think that you're the tall
and pointiest, slipperiest, penciliest, profoundiest
poetiest poet of them all,
you're wrong you ham
I am
the grandiest, spithiest, wittiest, icicliest
icicle in the world of wit.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
But I can wait for the sun to come out
and melt your hydrointeractiveplasmic snout
Oh yea, who's the man, who's the man?
I guess you are
you pencilest, profoundiest, poetiest, poethamiest czar.
Shoot, he always gets in the last and bestiest
Profoundiliest, hyrdointeractiveplasmiciliest licks-
before he melts.
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This poem is nominated in humor category- Best Poem of Year 2005 for 2nd Muses Prize.
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