Well, one thing I did was, I bought for the extortionate price of 49p a tiny book of silly/clever/peculiar French poems, and one of them did something like this ... here's a sort of English equivalent, written and composed by me, ME, rights reserved ,I wrote it, it was a wet day, let's get over it !
Mrs Vance
Makes us prance
and insists on elegance
but Mr. Norris
keeps a Loris
in his clapped-out vintage Morris
and I should mention Miss Golightly
whose mode of dress is most unsightly
and is on show alternate-nightly,
but even worse is Miss Devizes
who is too fond of odd disguises
no-one knows her true complexion
which leads at times to her expulsion
from her usual dwelling place
why can she not just show her face ?
But best of all was Mr. Hurst
who got so fat that he just BURST !
What it's doing, as you will of course have noticed, is naming a person then making a rhyme with what they do or what they are like. Mr. Hurst burst, Mrs Vance makes us prance and so on. It's not The Waste Land or anything like that, just a bit of fun.
Why not have a go at making a Welsh one. you don't even need any grammar really ..
Mistar Huws ...
wyneb piws !
Miss Aberystwyth
dim llaw chwith !
It could be just two lines... like Mr Hurst....
Mae pioden gan Olwen
Yn eistedd ar ei ben
or three lines.... like Miss Golightly and Mr Norris
Angharad, merch ifanc
tra oedd hi yn y banc
Gaeth hi darn o tanc !*
or bigger ....like Miss Devizes with her lots of lines all to herself.
Selwyn Gelert, postmon seimllyd
Liciodd yn ormodol Creision Hud **
Prynodd e llawer o CDs drud
Yn anffodus clywedodd e dim byd
Achos y drydan dim yn gweithio ar hyn o bryd ! ***
I realise that my terrific examples have set far too high a standard, but don't be too discouraged. In another 37 years you might be up to my level, if you're really unlucky..
This would make a fine engaging and interesting project for anyone above the beginner level with Welsh ...
It can be just two lines long, or two hundred.
It can be complex, or simple.
It can be silly, or serious.
It can make sense or be nonsense
It's fun to do, and Terrific For Your Welsh as well ... as is this, top band I Fight Lions doing top song " Gwefr Y Gwyll."
Later .. I've just remembered a dead easy one ... cranc = crab. I knew that, and it would have saved all that footling around.
** Nothing personal lads ... it just makes for a funny poem. Your CDs are not especially expensive and are actually quite good.
*** That last line, though Welshly, grammatically, logically and poetically a total mess, is, I'm proud to say, perfectly understandable and extremely silly.
Afterthought ... if any publishers were interested in persuading me to write a whole book of these things, I would be very surprised.