The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today is to write a poem that incorporates neologisms. What’s that? Well, it’s a made-up word! Your neologisms could be portmanteaus (basically, a word made from combining two existing words, like “motel” coming from “motor” and “hotel”) or they could be words invented entirely for their sound. The most famous example of a poem incorporating neologisms is Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, but neologisms don’t have to be funny or used in the service of humor. You can use them to try to get at something that you don’t have an exact word for, or to create a sense of sound and rhythm, or simply to make the poem feel strange and unworldly.
I have tried to incorporate neologism by blending a few words which I have annexed below. Do comment if you liked any of my new words 🙂
Rainlets falling on the garden grass
greenifying the earth with a touch of class
Rainlets kissing the beautiful flowers
augmenting Flegance with majestic powers
Rainlets teasing the bees around
tip-tap seizing the beezing buzzound
Rainlets soaking the boyz constelling
boyzies splashing, whooping and cleering
Rainlets fetch fairangel to earth
her oceblue eyes sprinkling mirth
rainlets derived from rain+ droplets
greenifying derived from green + glorifying
flegance derived from flowers + elegance
beezing derived from bee+buzzing
buzzound derived from buzz+sound
Constelling derived from constant+yelling
boyzies derived from boys
cleering derived from clapping + cheering
fairangel derived from fairy+ angel
ocblue derived from ocean + blue
Good one V! Rainlets, beezing and ocblue are my favorites 🙂
Thanks Hari 🙂
My favourite: beezing buzzound
Great choice:) Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂
When I started NaPoWriMo this year I thought aboud not reading a lot, because I felt no headspace. I think I’ve read more than any year before, and I think it has actually given me headspace. The power of poetry!
A similar experience…I am reading more than ever and learning more than ever 🙂
I like y^e poem in whole..’still c’not c’up w’th n’ing…
Ha ha. Thanks Sangbad. All the best
You get it…that’s cool…posted mine…
Wow, Beautiful write….. Awesome Neologism 🙂
Thanks Preeti
Loved this poem! “Rainlets” is beautiful. “Beezing” was my second fav.
Thanks. “Rainlets” had been on my mind for a long time 🙂
This line is particularly wonderful:
“tip-tap seizing the beefing buzzound”
I am glad you liked it! Thanks for reading