The Revoltful Rumbumpfus
The Revoltful Rumbumpfus
Has grumblesome growls
Brisketty snickers
And hauntular howls.
Her sandpaper scales
Barbarrific and rough
Her boneful brown toes
Crustificious and tough.
She hides by the river
Where grasses grow green
Lying lithesomely long
Staying silent, unseen.
On stiltilling nights
She feeds on the eels.
And if she’s still hungry
She creeps into creels
To wait by the water
For chubstumping feet
That splag in the shallows
Where wet and dry meet.
And when she espies
A delicular toe
She pounces
and pulls it
to the darkness below.
Has grumblesome growls
Brisketty snickers
And hauntular howls.
Her sandpaper scales
Barbarrific and rough
Her boneful brown toes
Crustificious and tough.
She hides by the river
Where grasses grow green
Lying lithesomely long
Staying silent, unseen.
On stiltilling nights
She feeds on the eels.
And if she’s still hungry
She creeps into creels
To wait by the water
For chubstumping feet
That splag in the shallows
Where wet and dry meet.
And when she espies
A delicular toe
She pounces
and pulls it
to the darkness below.
This poem is copyright (©) Annelies Judson 2026
About the Writer
Annelies Judson
Annelies Judson is a children's author and poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. She
loves cooking, cricket and her kids (not in that order). She also has alopecia, but
that is neither hair nor there. Her debut picture book, Turkey Hurly-Burly, was
released by Scholastic (NZ) in 2025. You can find her at anneliesjudson.wordpress.com
