It’s time for a bit of the weekly Terrible Poetry indulgence run by Chelsea Owen. This week the guidelines are
- Topic: Plot twists. Lament about how often stories have them, include a few in your poem, or pull a fast one on us and keep the poem going exactly where we expect.
- Length: Since this is Bruce’s first time, let’s be nice to him and keep the word count under 200.
- Rhyme? Your call. Have fun with it!
- As the #1 rule listed at #4, make it terrible. I want Bruce himself, master of the macabre story twist, to shake his head in disbelief and secretly envy the part of the twisting Roman gutters in which your mind lies.
- Rating? For general audiences, keep things PG-13 or cleaner. Bleep it out if you really need to release a torrent.
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Yoda was the all seeing Jedi Knight
Yet was fooled with a hood and a dodgie light
While Luke was being the Star Wars Galahad
Who honestly thought that Vader was his dad
Bruce Willis seemed the perfect host
But ended up being a sodding Ghost
Poor Liberty Valence ended up getting shot
By John Wayne that’s a strange train of thought
The Sting was a shock when Paul and Robert copped it
But it just ended up being a gigantic counterfeit
The Village tried to fool us with a bit of double play
But it ended up being set in the Present Day
Anthony Perkins seemed such a nice chap
Yet as Mum and a psycho he got me into a flap
Seven tried so hard to subvert
By having a Box in the desert
Vertigo was Very very bleak
Judy being Madeleine was a bit of a cheek
Who in the Murder on the Orient Express would be first to admit
But what a sneaky trick to have them all do seem do it
The Wizard of Oz seemed strangely certain
Yet the wizard was a sad bloke behind a curtain
Reservoir Dogs was as cool as a soda pop
Yet sneaked in that Mr Orange was in fact a cop
Wow Scream tried smoke and mirrors
All to hide we didn’t have one but two killers
Jacobs Ladder tried to hide the thread
Hang on a moment another one who is dead
Even poor Harry Potter tried to be as shifty as a Manx Cat
I never saw Peter Pettigrew was Scabbers the Rat
Excellent??(he-he)
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That is so kind
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Ah! So truly terrible, but very clever!
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Thank you
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Good one, and your prize is being tagged for a musical challenge
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/weekly-song-challenge-round-26/
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Thank you. Good job you are not asking me to sing. The only thing I’m worse than cooking at is singing.
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Aw shucks. I was saving that!!!!
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🙏
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I hate to burst your bubble but this made me giggle and smile. It is not terrible. You said I needed to provide you with a word for a poem. My word is: Rude. Whenever you can. If you don’t want to no prob. 🙂
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I will use Rude as the theme for next weeks. Could be a challenge as it always PG.
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It can be done. I believe you can do it. 😊
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Thanks
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You’re welcome. Did I forget to warn you I am pushy?
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No.
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I loved it – all the references! Great job 🙂
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Thank you Robyn.
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I was thinking of having a go at this week’s contest, but now there is no point: this is a clear winner! No contest. 🙂
I’m sticking to photography this week! – liked your photo but i’m not sure what plant it is? I’m thinking fairly small and possibly a kind of clover??
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It was about an inch long. Not seen one before like it. Small patch of them but no others.
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I was close… it’s crimson clover! (crimson, red, myehh?!)
Seems like you might have found the first example in Yorkshire??
See map: https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/crimson-clover
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Cool. I wonder if it’s been transferred with the farm and plant traffic. Gets quite a bit from the Rutlands.
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Very likely! May also be from a ‘passing’ bird drop, but as far as we know – You are the first Yorkshireman to see one and photograph it as proof! 🙂 Nice one. 🙂
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It’s the Martian red weed.
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BTW… do you remember Crimson and Clover, the cover version by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts?? – Loved that song. 😉
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That song has been in so many movies. It must be royalty free or something.
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Probably the copyright has expired… i think the original was from the early 60’s?
Even Prince did a cover!
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I think everyone did a cover.
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Super terrible. Your next one must feature your cooking/singing
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Ok. It’s on.
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🙂
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Ha! That’s a lot of plot twists packed into one poem. Nicely done, Friend 🙂
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That’s so kind. I’m tempted to buy a T-shirt the I’m a poet on the front. With ‘a bloody s###e one’ on the back. x
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Ha! I could use such a shirt, m’self 🙂
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You could have I’m an author on the front and ‘a bloody good one’ on the back.
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LOL! We should start making these shirts 🙂
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Do you think they will do them in xxxxxxl for me. x
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Why not? We have creative control 🙂
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