Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Week 716: The Hard Spell

In this contest, we were supposed to write a poem using a word from the 2007 National Spelling Bee. With this entry, I was hoping for the "Used More Words Than Anyone Else" award, but alas, no such award was given. I decided to replace the nonsense words in The Jabberwocky with real, albeit obscure, words. Almost all of the words are actually used correctly. I took some liberties with a couple, but only if there was no good word from the Spelling Bee list to use. Without further ado, I present:

The Sardoodledom
(with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

'Twas flebile, and the noctilucous girolles
Were acariasis in the haze;
All scytodepsic were the ophidians,
And the leucoryx did graze.

"Beware the Sardoodle, my son!
The polyphyodont jaws, the unguiculatey toe!
Beware the Beccafico, and shun
The furfuraceous Rascacio!”

He took his fauchard sword in hand,
Long time the stramineous foe he sought—
So rested he by the ruderal tree,
And was sejant awhile in thought.

And, as in saiminic thought he stood,
The Sardoodle, with eyes of flame,
Came wafture through the otate wood,
And grognarded as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The fauchard blade made it helzel!
He let it exsiccate, and with its head
He abseiled back pell mell.

"And hast thou slain the Sardoodle?
Come to my arms, my vituline boy!
Oberek day! Genizah! Rigaree!"
He schuhplattlered for joy.

'Twas flebile, and the noctilucous girolles
Were acariasis in the haze;
All scytodepsic were the ophidians,
And the leucoryx did graze.