It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

[cleochatra]

OK. It's time to start practicing. Poetry slam


Christmas/Kwanzaa/Chanukah/Eid is coming and big Aunt Mahetabel is going to come at you with the world's most colossal crumb cake.

In a poem of 20 lines or less, explain to her why you can't partake in that crumb cake.


Haiku:

Mahetabel, I
see you have eaten crumb cake
But I won't this year.

limerick:

Mahetabel's cake is so scrumtipous
So edible, dainty and sumpt'ous
If I were to eat it
My diet's defeated
And it'll end up on my bumptious

Free form:

O Mahetabel
Betty Crocker meets Godzilla
and your hips tell the tale

couplet in iambic pentamenter:

I'd eat the cake you gave me but alas
It from my lips would travel to my (knees)

[2big4mysize]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

i am allergic
to that Aunt Mahetabel.
I break out in fat!

[Chris]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

Okay, being a Shakespeare fan, here's my sonnet:

Mahetabel, bearer of cake of crumb
Who arrives each year just about this time.
With blare of trumpet and the beat of drum,
With goodies -- chocolate, lemon, and lime!
She coaxes us all, "just one bite won't hurt,"
As she shoves that fork in front of each face.
But we know that it will -- it's a dead cert!
Be gone Mahetabel, gives us some space!
Mahetabel, who's more evil than sin
Why are we cursed with such a wicked witch?
If we ate all that what shape we'd be in!
So, go away, dear aunt, don't be a b*tch,
We'll stick with our low carb -- the only way
That we'll live a good life, day after day.

[cleochatra]

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Ooh! you guys are gooooood! *snapsnapsnap*

OMG Chris! Was an Elizabehtan Sonnet?! Whoa! I'm impressed!

2big, I bow before your haikuness

[2big4mysize]

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thanks but I had to check yours for how many syllables in her name. I still don't know how to pronouce it but I'll try my darnedset to protect you from her.

[Chris]

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thanks but I had to check yours for how many syllables in her name. I still don't know how to pronouce it but I'll try my darnedset to protect you from her.

Me, too, 2Big! I kept thinking, I HOPE they're four syllables in that name, or she's really going to mess up my ten syllable lines!

[Anlhess]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

you guys are good... I amno poet so I'm not even going to attempt it. i will jsut sit back and read what the others wrote

[cleochatra]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

Aw an! C'mon! It's just fun. OK. For you, a knock knock joke

Knock knock
Who's there?
Mahetabel
Mahetabel who?
Mahetabel because it tasted like crumbcake.

[2big4mysize]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

so CLEO you going to teach us how to pronouce her name or not?

[Chris]

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Ok, now, I've seen lots of good prose from the people in this club, so how about a little poetry? I know there are more than three of us with the souls of a poet. So, how about a little effort from the rest of you! Heck, blank verse or free verse is totally acceptable. You'll never know unless you try!

[cleochatra]

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Mah- heh-teh-bell, with emphasis on the first syllable and syllables 2 & 3 schwa

[2big4mysize]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

well Cleo that didn't help as I don't know any words with teh nor heh to go see how they sound LOL I will just know she is after you with desserts

[Anlhess]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

Mahetabel mahetabel what did you bring?
Mahetabel Mahetabel,Oh No Not again
Mahetabel Mahetabel I've told you before
Mahetabel Mahetabel Carbs no more.
Mahetabel Mahetabel, here's a suggestion
Next time can you Please pay attention???

As I said I am no poet, but I gave it a shot!

[Chris]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

Mahetabel mahetabel what did you bring?
Mahetabel Mahetabel,Oh No Not again
Mahetabel Mahetabel I've told you before
Mahetabel Mahetabel Carbs no more.
Mahetabel Mahetabel, here's a suggestion
Next time can you Please pay attention???

As I said I am no poet, but I gave it a shot!

WHO says you're no poet? That was great!

[Anlhess]

Re: It's time to start practicing saying "no" Poetry slam

Thanks Chris... I guess I am no poet in the lovey dovey, death and dying, actually means something sense!!! LOL I failed an assignment in my tenth grade honors english class because I couldn't write an adequate poem.... don't teachers understand not everyone is good at those things? tooo artsy for me! I guess i never got that gene!