El Jay Spoof : Poetry That Means Something
Okay... Many of my friends have been telling me I don't update enough. When I asked, "what should I update about?" they told me I should update about how sucky my life is. Unfortunately, my life is not that sucky in the grand scheme of things and I don't feel up to a six-paragraph description of how I ate pancakes for breakfast, so I will do the next best thing.
I will, like many other lj-users, post a poem that means a lot to me here, and hopefully when you read it you will be stirred by emotion and aspire to greater heights or something. This poem is from my childhood and whenever I read it, I would feel all my frustrations and bitterness fading away, until I felt like a calm and peaceful sea. I remember also how my brother and I would read it together, and had many happy and loving moments as a result.
I have put the poem in italics because it is heightens the depth of the poem even though according to the laws of physics something cannot be high and deep at the same time. I am not jumping on the "everyone does it" bandwagon, this is truly how I feel from the bottom of my soul (even though technically that's somewhere very near where I shit from).
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
And the Monkeys all say Boo!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang!
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So it's Ning Nang Nong!
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning!
Trees go Ping!
Nong Ning Nang!
Mice go Clang!
What a noisy place to belong,
Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!
- Spike Milligan
I copied it word for word. Does it not rid you of anger and pent-up sadness in a rush of emotion and meaning? Does it not inspire loud noises and strange actions? Is it not meaningful?
I hope you are duly impressed.
I will, like many other lj-users, post a poem that means a lot to me here, and hopefully when you read it you will be stirred by emotion and aspire to greater heights or something. This poem is from my childhood and whenever I read it, I would feel all my frustrations and bitterness fading away, until I felt like a calm and peaceful sea. I remember also how my brother and I would read it together, and had many happy and loving moments as a result.
I have put the poem in italics because it is heightens the depth of the poem even though according to the laws of physics something cannot be high and deep at the same time. I am not jumping on the "everyone does it" bandwagon, this is truly how I feel from the bottom of my soul (even though technically that's somewhere very near where I shit from).
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
And the Monkeys all say Boo!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang!
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So it's Ning Nang Nong!
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning!
Trees go Ping!
Nong Ning Nang!
Mice go Clang!
What a noisy place to belong,
Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!
- Spike Milligan
I copied it word for word. Does it not rid you of anger and pent-up sadness in a rush of emotion and meaning? Does it not inspire loud noises and strange actions? Is it not meaningful?
I hope you are duly impressed.