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Greeting Card Mania
Contributed by
Elena
on
Tuesday, 8th June 2004 @ 05:06:35 AM in AEST
Topic:
HumorPoetry
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Shhhh ! Friends and fellows, bad tidings to you I bring
They say the greeting card factory is now onto our thing
They’ll eat us up and water us down and drag us down their way
And no-one will be left to tell our truth at the greeting card factory.
And watch out for traitors in our midst, I know I heard one say
Greeting cards aren’t so bad; they’re an honest living today.
But they’ll have us punching in and punching out, or worse
They’ll be punching holes in us: they’ll be punching holes in verse.
So, lines, hemistiches and verses of the world, unite!
Together, till the final stanza, we’ll fight the good fight
And don’t forget metaphor, onomatopoeia, rhyme and simile
They’re our avant-garde, our rearguard - the entire infantry.
O listen, fairest friends: sonnets, sestets, free verse, odes
They have poetry software, with roll-out menus and rhyming modes
If we don’t act now, we’re doomed our own mournful dirge to sing
The future of poetry hangs on us. Those are the tidings I bring.
Copyright ©
Elena
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2004-06-08 05:06:35]
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Re: Greeting Card Mania
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by Ilhar on
Tuesday, 8th June 2004 @ 06:56:18 AM AEST
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wonderfully done
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Re: Greeting Card Mania
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by Former_Member on
Thursday, 10th June 2004 @ 06:28:03 AM AEST
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Fantastic! I love this one! So true and enlightening - POetry software?? Damn . . . lol.
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Re: Greeting Card Mania
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by Stoney1 on
Saturday, 3rd July 2004 @ 06:12:08 AM AEST
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I enjoyed this read! Very well written and with a nice touch of humour.
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