It’s time for Chelsea Owens Terrible Poetry Contest.
They really are great fun. It’s nice to do stuff well outside your comfort zone. AND it helps distract you from today’s worries.
Topic: Unusual ways to make money.
(No, prostitution is not that unusual. Thanks, Certain-Regulars-Who-Know-Who-You-Are, for wondering.)
Keep the Length as short or long as your muse needs, with an upper limit of 250 words. If you want to Rhyme, go ahead. If not, I won’t stop you either. As always, playing with rhymes is a great way to screw up a potentially lovely poem.Most of all, make it terrible! Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, and even the POTUS himself need to take a full five seconds of their precious time to stop, look at you, and shake their head in disbelief. Rating? PG or nicer, as usual. You have till 8:00 a.m. MST next Friday (July 12) to submit a poem.
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Rupert likes to make shed loads of money.
Not bad for a lad who comes from a land which is so sunny
A man who set up his own news corporation
Who still had time to build a TV station
Making so much dosh he thinks he owns your nation
So how does our Rupert make his cash
Promoting fake stories with panache
Filling his TV channels with balderdash
Getting you to watch TV shows filled with advert trash
Rupert also likes to control the news
He wants you to sign up to this perverted views
Making sure his political buddies get friendly interviews
His opponents suffer as fake news spews
Love it!
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Thank you
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Look how you have grown!!! I love your poem, and I’m afraid I have a treasure trove of bad poems, so I’ll need that deadline!
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When do we see them then. I can’t wait.
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Love it too!
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Thank you.
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Wow that’s great! I started writing a post with “fake news” in it – but I’m waiting on it. And not a poem like this – great job!
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Thank you so much. Can’t wait to read yours. How is the running coming along.
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It’s good! I am trying to increase the mileage a little this month which makes some runs a bit harder. I have weird yearly mileage goals and last month with vacation I was 20 miles off my monthly goal – so I am trying to pick them up. But overall, the good days are really good! Have you found an activity to try? Did yoga ever pan out for you?
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Have you any races coming up. The biking world tour is a start. Going to hopefully try jogs again first thing in the morning over the summer holidays. I’m clinging to the hope that the enforced no run summer (runs are not really an option with our son off) may help heal the body enough to start a bit of running again in September. Do miss it.
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Not until September. I always register for this one in September because it is cheap – but it is usually so humid that I hate the race. I don’t run outside in the summer. I can’t breathe in the humidity. I hope you feel better soon and heal so you can enjoy a run 🙂
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Excellent.
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Thanks
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Rupert seems somehow familiar😕…👏👏awesome😂
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Maybe it’s Rupert The Bear.
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Love it!!!
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Thank you
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You do get better each time! 🙂
Thanks for ‘setting the bar’!
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You are the bar….
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I’m AT the bar – my shout! 😉
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Anything but XXXX….
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Foster’s it is then.
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What’s terrible about this
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I think the PG limit is holding me back.
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🙂
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Are you suggesting we go no-holds-barred? I may have to blackout sections if we do that. 😀
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Being PG is good for the soul.
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I’m still a fan of the gerbils, but this wasn’t half bad either. 😀
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Thank you
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haha, you nailed it Garry! Well done good job!
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I can do Terrible.
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Sounds like quite a few folks on this side of the Pond, too 🙂
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On all sides the pond sadly.
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