Rhyming Google Poetry or a Poem about Google
75What rhymes with Google?
I do my best to come up with an answer.
Strictly speaking, it's probably not the best bit of Google poetry ever but then what do you expect from an internet search?
Wordsworth?
Anyway, he only did daffodils because the internet hadn't been invented.
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I’m not what you would call a qualified poet.
In fact I don’t even know how you get qualifications for doing poetry stuff.
Maybe you have to sit some exams with a lot of boring words and try to think up rhymes.
Whatever. I do know that when the muse takes me… actually I don’t know what a muse is either. It’s what they say, those poet dudes – “my muse has deserted me”. I’ll Google muse later.
Tell you what. Let’s just get the poem thing out of the way and then maybe I’ll ramble on a bit more.
Incidentally, when I sat down to pen an ode to Google using the medium of.. why am I talking like this? It’s like - mention poetry and one has to get all high brow and la-di-da. I don’t normally say one either. Usually it would be me or I in a fake I’m your mate sort of way.
Let’s start off with one of those poems that doesn’t rhyme. Cheating really but I’d like to save the best till last.
edit: The term 'best' is used subject to certain legal restrictions. Not applicable in Quebec.
Google Non Rhyming Prose
You are my doorway
To a world outside my house
Where naked forms enchant and
You can get coupons for groceries.
You are a name
That has become a verb
A bit like Hoover
But not like Walmart.
I don’t key search terms in using an engine
Neither do I employ a complex algorithm
When I want something from the internet
I just Google.
Sorry Bing.
“How can you top that?” you say, and I modestly admit that it might be difficult.
Google Rhyming Poem
I have used artistic licence, quite a lot of it, to redefine words within certain poetic parameters. That is to say, I have cheated fairly extensively.
They asked me how to rhyme with Google
I said “Easy, if you use your noogle”
So off we go, toot, toot the bugle
Aboard the Chattanooga Choogle
We’re on our way to Honaloogle
Can pay for it in Russian roogles
Or credit card from my mate Dougal
No room though for my best Bazoogle
Some dogs allowed, but not a poogle
And certainly no Winnie Poohgle
Must always tip, please don’t be frugal
Here’s one, don’t stand in a canoogle
We hear a "cock a doodle doogle"
And fields of cows all mooing moogle
Their milk is churned, it’s centrifoogle
The bull next field wants his conjoogle
They said you cannot rhyme with Google
It’s easy if you have a droogle
Or better still a doobie doogle.
Summary
Google rhyming was more difficult than I thought. In retrospect I should have gone for Bing but it wasn’t my first choice.
Same for most people I suspect.
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I suppose you could have chosen words that rhyme with the second syllable of Google-"gull' and then ignore the first syllable for rhyming,which would have made it easier-but what would be the fun of that?
Yes I was a bit lazy with the pictures. I have some ideas, but limited time.
Glad you asked about droogle. I was going to put in an explanation but as you've asked.. Droog, from Clockwork Orange, a friend is the meaning. I thought it meant hooligan so I will make a minor modification.
I mean, even if it's nonsense it has to be correct.
Good point Flora - so seagull and.. can't think of anymore. There have already been arguments in my household about rhyming and cheating - which I pretended to lose.
lull, mull, null, dull...
not as fun, to be sure.
A famous example of someone who thought that a name was pronounced differently than it was -Lord Byron. From his poem, you can tell that he thought that Don Juan was pronounced as "Don Joo-un"
Well, I enjoyed the challenge, sort of. The argument was partly over 'gle' as opposed to 'ull'. I decided to cheat.
This is only my second venture into the poetry arena, so I don't know a lot about Byron or his poems. I know that daffodil one though. The first line anyway.
Ha ha - I like that - I can go with droogle meaning hooligan... especialy since neither droog or hooligan rhyme with Google!
I was thinking "bondoogle" until I remembered it's really "boondoggle". Don't mind me. My mind's in a foggle (although I remain sensibly frugal).
What a great word, had never heard it before. My favorite is still possibly hornswoggle - but none of this quite helps the Google conundrum. Had I thought though, I would have cheerfully mispelt both of them to aid the cause.
I really enjoyed the pics and all the imagination you put into rhyming "Google"! Thanks, Mark.
Hehehe........LOL
You've done it Mark! You have officially crossed over into the land of Poets...not the boring ones of course.
BTW..what dictionary did you use? I like your rhymes!
ee cummings move over!? Google That!
I see you are out to seriously entertain us hubbers, thanks Mark Ewbie!
Thanks Paradise, once I let myself go I really enjoyed it as well. The first publication this morning was a bit shorter, sparser - but I spent an enjoyable couple of hours just thinking, playing and adding bits.
Hi Cardisa - I can't say I used a dictionary. I did do a quick Google (of course) for words that rhymed and basically there weren't any. But once I hit on just adding OOGLE - it got a whole lot easier. Thanks for making me an official poet by the way!
Snakeslane - On the basis of a quick Wiki I can now say thanks very much! I had vaguely heard the name before but never read anything. I should read more.
I enjoyed your poems and your googledoodles.
Thanks Rochelle, poetry (sort of) and art (sort of) - if my school teachers could see me now...
cool! Must look up again too, this nonsense verse making has me intrigued...
And who said good taste was dead?
Well, I googled "good taste is dead" and didn't find anything so I reckon that might have been a compliment. From a first class poet dude like yourself that has given me some of that encouragement thing - thanks Twilight.
haha--nicely done, great imagination too. Love your visuals.
I rarely understand poetry, but I have to admit yours is clear as a bell and far less pretentious than most. Certainly less maudlin. If you keep it up, I predict your Googleisms will appear in the Urban Dictionary. The Googledoodles are great too.
Thanks anginwu - and I like the term 'visuals', going to use that one in future. It sounds sort of cool.
And thanks Green Lotus - I don't really get the clever stuff - it just needs to rhyme for me. Plus give me a hook to hang my drawings / humor on of course. Had a lot of fun doing this one, although it was a hard start trying to think of anything that rhymed.
A “Magic Roundabout’ dog, known as Dougal,
Asked a friend, “Can you think of a word, rhymes with Google?”
Florence said, “Just a few, so be frugal,
But claim them as yours. Blow your own bugle”.
"Boing" said Zebedee. Time for bed.
You know, I can hear that music playing in my head.
"di di-di-di..."
Love it!
They must wonder what on earth we are on about on the other side of the Pond.
Hi Mark, I admire your restraint; given that $50 a day is still up for the best Drano/plumbing' hub, I'd have been unable to resist trying to out-google Google with a few more drainage plugs. It's easy to flush out keywords when you take the time to tap into the sewer of opportunity that overflows the internet, it's not like you have to drain your energy, or even strain yourself unduly. (That's 9 so far, 10 if you count Drano. Are you keeping count, Google?)
I know, over density in a comment this short; but I don't give a shit. (That's 11, and out).
All is not lost though,Mark, I think there's potential here for a series. I'm thinking something a little more down and dirty, something punchy, like, er "Smack the Panda."
Why doncha give it a whack?.
Hi WO - I prefer to write when inspired to do so, so I need a thought, an idea, something that makes the work involved less onerous. Writing to order, as in "I need 500 words on plumbing right now", that's more like hard work.
I have entered these comps before and my stuff isn't what they are looking for. That's fair enough and I have no desire to enter an over crowded market anyway.
No doubt my "muse" will say to me "how about some plumbing puns" in a month or so's time - when it's all over.
Hi Mark ... will you tell WOL off - he wants to be cruel to Pandas! We Brits can't allow that ... loved the poetry by the way ... one of your more inspired insanities.
Say hello to Twilight for me ... I modelled for the original Florence, you know, on the Magic Roundabout ... it was the big shoes that did it.
Hi Angie. Right.
1. Naughty WOL - leave Pandas alone.
2. Thanks. I loved it too.
3. Twilight, Angie says "hello".
4. What a gig, acting on the Magic Roundabout.
Re. the MR which has become a hot topic. What a bizarre and strange program that was. I was wondering about doing a "Best of Strange British TV".
do do-do-do ... found it.
It has become a cult classic, y'know ... as it had an underlying meaning for adults... see Dylan the rabbit. Rainbow and Bagpuss have also enjoyed some notoriety ...
Ah, they don't make them like they used to ... good subjects for hubs, methinks?
Yes a good subject. Don't forget the Clangers.
Ah yes, of course ... I've just had soup for lunch ... supplied by my very own Soup Dragon ... he's a whizz with can opener and microwave ...
Ah, excellent soup too I expect, lol.
Hello Angie! Hello Mark! Goodnight Dougal! (Sneers at Panda) Tweet Clangers!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Thanks Motown. Not the most expansive of comments, but a very high HA quotient.
Mark, I was laughing so hard, I couldn't think of anything witty to say...figured that pretty much covered it. :D
It just took me by surprise! Not for the first time either. Anyway, a more official... thanks.
You are always welcome...and you're always funny. :D
Hi Mark poetry has very wide parameters and the real skill is stepping beyond them. You have managed a giant leap on your first attempt, making you a natural with literally springy legs. There's money in your stick art too, but have you patented it? "Nothing rhymes with this', is a red rag to a bullish poet and creativity will always outwit such talk. Cheers mate for another amusing epic.
Thanks AH - I don't think I can patent the stick man but I'm certainly going to milk it. Yes, I suspect with enough cheating you can rhyme anything with anything. Cheers again.
What is happening with your Google sites?
Hi FB. Nothing. They are mostly deleted or suspended, with my latest one still available - fwiw.
barbergirl28 Level 8 Commenter 8 months ago
Ha ha - your poem reminded me of something Dr. Seuss would have written. I am however a little disappointed that you did not use your artistic talents to draw a bunch of droogles. What is a droogle? Is it like a human. Does it only have one hair on it's head? Or is it just someone that walks aroudn in a shirt that says Google while wearing red pants? Curious minds want to know!