CIRCUS SCANDAL
Emails, flyers, posters, letters
and a lot more bumf
advertised circus parade
real elephant’s galumph.
But the beast was clumsy, shy
a masked and costumed humf.
Cheated crowd wants money back
not ringmaster’s “Harrumph.”
© 2013 – Violet Nesdoly
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David Harrison’s Word of the Month challenge for June is “Harrumph.” The poem above is the result of trying to fit into one poem all the words with the end rhyme ‘umf’ contained in my little rhyming dictionary.
(And yes, bumf and humf are real words.)
Why don’t you write a “harrumph” poem? Mr. Harrison welcomes submissions of harrumph poems to the W.O.M. page of his blog (post in comments) till the end of June.
Now for some real poetry, check out Poetry Friday, hosted this week by the always surprising Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference.
Violet Nesdoly 
I love this, Violet! I can really picture it too. Well done.
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Cute poem! Poor elephant…
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Didn’t realize bumf was a real word! I feel sorry for the elephant too. Clever poem, Violet!
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Fun! Humf is the word I had to look up.
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Thanks for the new words, Violet! You’re so inventive. The title of your poem is perfect, too.
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It’s delightful, Violet. I read it on David’s site too, & loved it then. You are very clever to put the ‘humf’ words together as you did!
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Violet, so it’s bumf in my mailbox that drives me to distraction? This was a real challenge well-met by you!
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Ha!
And thanks for the new words!
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