I think the poems posted here so far are all too good. They make far too much sense. Here's the original Wergle Flomp poem:
http://www.winningwriters.com/contes...background.php
I notice, though, that the organizers seem to say contest entries should be parodies.
I posted the following on another workshop site a year or two back.
Appointment
The lake water shimmers like a blessing
and I see you waiting by the
shore like a
promise of patience
as though you are
an eternal among the reeds
from which now, as evening
settles to a breeze,
comes the beginning of a hint
of a faint whistling
like a presentiment,
as if a kettle were half-
flirting with the notion of
edging leisurely a little nearer
the destiny of boiling.
That was supposed to be a parody of a certain type of modern poem, specifically the type which makes simile and "as if" constructions into a verbal tic. I said so, but that didn't stop somebody telling me that it was in fact a good poem and I just didn't know when I'd written one! Whether it's Wergle Flomp material is another matter.
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