The Gobageek and Punkalunks

Gobageek and Punkalunks is a nonsense poem made up of words invented by my two kids (Emily and Timothy) when they were toddlers. If you like this poem, you can find more poems here.

I dreamt a dream of Diddle Times
Where yellow moons float in the air;
They light the trees and jungle vines
And look to see what I see there:

The Gobageek flies open-beak
    And grabs a tasty baya,
And down she sees the Lemurs sneek
    In leaves and says goodbye ya'.

The Gobageek is quite a bird,
    N'dawden doesn't lack it,
And when she flies no sound is heard
    Except a clicky-clackit.

In Jungle Madagascareze,
    N'dawden does math for ya',
Where Lemurs swing up in the trees,
    And dangle in the flora.

She sees a silly question there;
    She grabs it and she dunks it
In Lemur Sea: "Are circles square?"
    The Punkalunks debunks it.

The Punkalunks is off to seas
    And floats his boats a bobbin',
And in his ease, catastrophes
    Can't touch a faithful baba.

His baba flies into the seas
    and then he hears a plunkit,
It splunks right back to Timotheebs,
    itself, oh who'd a thunkit!

The Thunkin is unsinkable;
    A baba doesn't wobble.
To flop in math? Unthinkable!
    No problem gives him trouble.

The Punkalunks and Emalems
    (N'dawden's what he calls her),
Are silly as their Daddilems;
    They're Bitsy Pookem's treasure.


 

The word N'dawden is 3 syllables, with the stress on the middle syllable. The N'd is pronounced like the nd you would find at the end of a word, but you don't say a vowel before it. It's prounounced like something like end but without saying the e. You won't find anything like it in any English word. The a in N'dawden is long, as in mod, broad, or odd.

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