Chelsea Owens has another poetry challenge on the go. This week it is….
Hey! It’s the A Mused Poetry Contest! Make a gaffe, cause a laugh!
Here are the specifics for this week’s contest:
- The Theme is commercials: try radio, newspaper, halftime show, or a high-pressured letter you get in the mail.
- The Length needs to run between 5 and 155 words.
- Rhyming is at the discretion of the poet (you).
- The Rating can be PG-13 (though I’m not fond of cussing). Hear that, E??
- MAKE US LAUGH. I wanna hear your ditty passed around online meetings, morning talk shows, and incessant chatting from children at the dinner table.
You have till 10:00 a.m. MST next Friday (October 2) to submit a poem.
The problem is that I started writing a poem. A terrible one. I lime making my poems terrible. It hides how bad I am at being a bard, but it allows me to call myself one. But I went for the wrong subject. Adverts and Brexit. Just couldn’t make it funny. I failed. So I won’t be sending my words to Chelsea this time. It’s terrible. I could make it terrible. Definitely terrible but not funny this time. Sorry just not a funny subject. It’s just very sad.
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Cue the patriotic music and views of the White Cliffs of Dover
It’s time to sell Brexit to the masses, to buy into the dream, moreover
Just think of the future with our new brightly coloured passports
The fun of all those new travel checkpoints and long queues at the ports
The joy of telling our kids that we have taken away their right to free travel
Watch as our worker rights and environmental standards begin to unravel
Be happy as we sell the NHS to American Insurance Groups in the hope of a deal
Any deal as we cut ourselves adrift, is it time for chlorinated chicken to be revealed
Let’s not forget the rich brexit backers who for some reason have now moved abroad
Let’s be proud that now as a country we are free to rip up international accords
Enjoy the sight of all those companies now moving jobs away from our now free island
Yes remember those glossy Brexit adverts that told us to dream, smile and
Strangely failed to mention all the crap that is about to happen to our country
That’s the problem with adverts, they sell you stuff you don’t need, that’s speaking bluntly…..
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
Not really funny at all
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No couldn’t bring myself to be funny on this one.
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You could prob swap the patriotic music for the pandemic music. Just saying, given the cloak it lends these deeds.
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Yes I thought about that.
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A Brexiteer, you are not! That being said, your advert maybe would have changed a lot, if it had been aired.
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I am not but I so want it to work for our future generations.
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It is all we can ask, that better will eventually come about.
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🙏
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Stay out of the rain, Super dad. Stay out of the rain.
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I will stay out of the rain. Sorry I know your not keen on me doing this stuff. It’s only occasionally then I leave the poetry fields free for the talented ones.
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For some reason WP didn’t notify me of this comment… 😕 Poem written… posting it later. You were right. I found the words.
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See I briefly enter the poetry world then exit just in time for the proper bards. 😀
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You’re right, it’s too sad. I saw a headline (didn’t read the article) that the EU is taking UK to court over violations of Brexit.
Both of our countries will be repairing the damage for years to come. All we can do is hope we’re like the Pheonix and we’ll rise from the ashes.
💌💌💌
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It would help if we got rid of the current Numpties and had competent people properly running the show. xx
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Not laughing much this side of the Atlantic these days either. Some days it’s just hard, isn’t it?
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It’s getting harder to laugh at the antics of the top people.
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So true Gary.
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Now we are supposed to believe that T has the virus…..I find I can’t believe a single thing anyone says. It is disturbing.
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Well, you were right that it got serious…
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It did sadly.
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I’m sorry. It is sad.
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It is sadly.
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The tragedy 🙂 of long queues … not very laughable piece of writing but to the point – cool 🙂
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Thank you 🙏😀
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Actually the best poem I’ve seen from you. But definitely not funny.
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That’s very kind of you.
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