If anyone has been to SomethingAwful.com - they may have noticed that they have this thing called 'Photoshop Phriday', where they choose a subject and everyone sends in their beautifully messed up and hilarious works of art that meet the subject criteria - Well for the wonderful forum of Books, Films, Food and (not just American) Culture- I bring the Poem Pot Phriday! Where we do exactly the same thing!.. just.. with poems.. see?
This Phriday's Topic for Poems issss:
-/-\-/-\-( President Bush )-/-\-/-\-
Don't post your poem till Phriday! The winner chooses the next week's topic!
Winner goes to the popular consensus- if there isn't one, i'll choose. And if there's too much pressure by making it sound like a contest, we can drop that idea. You got a day to prepare a poem- it can be as stupid or short or long or as intricate as you want.- late poems are acceptable. Try to stay on topic.
[ February 02, 2005, 11:14 PM: Message edited by: Judas ]
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Oh boy, this will be interesting.
Posted by Judas (Member # 7355) on :
Thursday is today, Tomorrow is when we play.
Don't give me dirty looks, just 'cause I chose Bush...
Judas
Posted by Judas (Member # 7355) on :
So - Anyone planning on getting in on this tomorrow?
Judas
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
You bet your buttons.
Posted by Judas (Member # 7355) on :
Bumping it up while I go get new strings for my guitar, I shouldn't be too long though cause the place is not that far.
Judas
rhyming isn't required
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm sorry Bush, I misunderestimated you
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
George W. Bush If he were on fire he'd be a Burning Bush. If he were an aborigine, he'd be a Bush-man. If he was worth one bird in the hand he'd be Two in the Bush. If he were a Japanese warrior code, he'd be Bushido. If he were a beer company, he'd be Anheuser-Busch. It's tiring coming up with these joke about our President's name-- I'm bushed!
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
The first one I came up with wasn't quite highbrow enough for the Cards' living room.
Here's a sesond one: The Bush/Cheney Couplet: Cheney's a goof, With Bush as dumb as a rail, You'd be surprised, That he's a grad out of Yale.
Bushflowers Roses are red, The President's yellow, I don't like him much, 'Cause his spine's all like Jell-O.
A fourth?
Busharick? I wrote a poem 'bout him, The one who invades on a whim, But it was so good, And as a good poem should, It called that Georgie real dim.
[ February 04, 2005, 06:27 AM: Message edited by: Nato ]
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
[with appologies to Gelett Burgess]
I never saw a Burning Bush, I never hoped to see one, But if I man the Pearly Gates, Ole Georgie just might be one!
[waits patiently for the Secret Service to come a knockin']
[ February 04, 2005, 07:09 AM: Message edited by: KarlEd ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
There's something stale in his eyes -- not hard, not wicked, not particularly sly, just halfway dead from the strain of a smile without smirking, from keeping his thumb from tucking under his belt, cowboy-style, and trying hard to not look absolutely numb.
Numb, not dumb: you can see each thought as it passes through his ears, so it's crystal clear that he has them; dumb he's not.
Posted by Judas (Member # 7355) on :
Alright! Looks like the ball is rollin- Come on Jatraqueros! Wield thy pencils! ... or keyboards.. or something..
My short poem: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I know how to spell, I thought you should know- DOn't Argue with me
I'm El Presidento! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Judas
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
I won't tell the Department of Homeland Security on you Karl, I'm too busy laughing.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
With a Texas drawl And a malapropism G. Dubbya inveigled a brawl That fueled a nation's schism
With fervent support applenty And fearsome might at hand Iraq was invaded, none to gently And blood was shed across the land
No weapons of mass destruction Were prized from near or far Yet on he strode, impervious to detraction As we strove, diligently, to polish the mar.
[ February 04, 2005, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Judas (Member # 7355) on :
I don't know enough of those word's definitions.. that makes me sad.. heh, but i will as soon as i open dictionary.com.. --- Is this topic too difficult for some of ya? I should've gone with bacon.. I knew it..
I knew I was mistaken.. I should have gone with bacon..
Judas
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I vote TomD's. Well crafted and subtly witty.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I have no idea who you're stealing from there, Karl, and I would take Bush over Kerry any day of the week, but I like yours the best.
[ February 08, 2005, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: Scott R ]
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
Gelett Burgess wrote:
I never saw a purple cow, I never hoped to see one, But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
If you've never heard that one before, you've missed out on a gem of poetic literature indeed. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Didn't everyone's grandmother quote that poem to them as a child? No? Okay, I'll go back in my cave, then.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
This thread is part of the Grand Jatraquero Poetry Bump.
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