Comic Poem Tag Experiment

[Rochellaine]

@dekreel @sam-kowal @ingridrd @jenwriter17 @supermonkey42

I’m reviving this topic because I love writing poems, but I have a hard time coming up with things to write about.  So I’m going to ask you all to give me prompts, and if you want me to tag you back I will, but I’m doing this so that I can write a few more poems. 😀  I might not do all of your prompts, but I’ll probably post some of them here, or on my website. 🙂

And remember, I’m horrible at writing serious poems, so if you try giving me a serious prompt it’ll probably come out comical anyway…

Thanks!

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[Joy]

@rochellaine  yyyyyyYYYYESSSS! I’ve been waiting for this to be revived!!

Okay, I’m going to tag a few different people

Rochellaine, do one about Racing Marbles

@ariel-ashira  Write a comical poem about Eating Oatmeal on a Ferris Wheel

You can pronounce it however you want.

[Ben Powell]

@rochellaine Random prompts:

• Write a comical poem about writing a comical poem
• A giraffe in Kansas
• Sporks
• The War of the Frogs
• Flying roses

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[Jenna Terese]

@rochellaine ooh, yay! here’s some prompts

Bananas in pajamas (did anyone else watch that show?)

Flying penguins

Baby donkey who thinks he’s a dog

A moose ball (ball as in dance; I had to get you back for the one you gave me 😉 )

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[Sam Kowal]

@rochellaine Some prompts…

A dragon who keeps a garden to calm himself down when he gets angry

A knight who loves baking

A doormat who is tired of being walked all over

 

*Giarstanornarak tries to melt chair*
Also, Daeus has 22 turtles in his signature.

[Rochellaine]

@dekreel @supermonkey42 @jenwriter17 @sam-kowal Thank you all so much!  This is going to be fun.

My first poem is based on Ben’s prompt

A Giraffe in Kansas

That big loping thing
Looked crazily strange
I started to sing
“Hey!” Get off my range!”
But then all at once
I realized what
A total big dunce
I would be to let
This creature escape

“Hey, Giraffe! I think you’re strange
But you may stay upon my range!”

I walked up real close
And looked at it clear
Oh, what a big dose
Of a tale they would hear
When I told my wife
And my kid of this thing
They’d cease any strife
And laughter would ring!
They’d never believe.

“Hey, Giraffe! Hear what I say
You’ll cause a great ruckus today!”

Giraffes are so quite
Extremely rare
To see in the light
Of my state, Kansas fair
That I’d be thought mad
If of it I told
My wife and my lad
They’d think me quite bold
I’d have to have proof

“Hey, Giraffe! I must have proof
Will you come to my humble roof?”

But just then I cried
Out loud in dismay
I sure could have died
When it turned away!
But as it walked off
I had just one hope
I swung up aloft
My own trusty rope
And threw it so far

“Hey, Giraffe! Don’t go away
I’m capturing you now today!”

My rope fell around
The long gangly neck
Of that great big clown
Its hopes I would wreck
For not anymore
Would it ever range free
Poor thing! What a bore
Its life now would be
From now and on out

“Hey, Giraffe! I’ve captured you
You’ll be fenced in your whole life through!”

But then all at once
That horrid Giraffe
He looked straight at me
And seeming to laugh
All downhill he went
His face to the ground
His legs, they were bent
His long neck he bowed
The rope slipped right off

“Hey, Giraffe! Don’t do that please!
I beg of you, down on my knees!”

But it was too late
He trotted away
I guess ’twas my fate
To fail on that day
For I had no proof
Of a Kansas Giraffe
And all that I told
Would be sure to laugh
And roll on the ground

“Hey, Giraffe! You were so real,
But now you’re gone. Oh, what a steal!”

Goodbye, Giraffe.

 

Okay, that’s the lot of it.  😀  It’s not my best, and the meter is kind of choppy, but it’s fun. 😉

Thank you all, and I’ll let you know when I do the other prompts you gave me! (Yes, Jen, you certainly got me back fairly. 😛 )

Oh…should I tag someone?  How about Dekreel, since you’re going away soon for a while, you can write one more poem before you disappear!  Your topic is: The Terrible Temper Tantrum of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Rex (Forgive me…I love alliteration.  I once wrote a whole story with the rule that every sentence had to have each word in the sentence starting with the same letter.)

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[Jenna Terese]

@rochellaine this is awesome! I always love your poems! 😀

@dekreel wait, you’re leaving soon?

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[Ben Powell]

@rochellaine Poor giraffe! All lost on the Kansas prairie, getting lassoed by farmers! 😀

Well done. I kind of liked the meter; it was unique.

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[Rochellaine]

@jenwriter17 Thanks!  I’m glad you liked it.

@supermonkey42 Poor Giraffe?  I write the whole poem from the farmer’s perspective and you come up with “Poor giraffe?!” 😛  Thank you!  Oh, you liked the meter?  That’s good. 😉

Now I have done one of the prompts from @sam-kowal – A Knight who Loves Baking!

There once was a knight who loved baking
And though ’twas a great undertaking
He always baked bread
On the top of his head
When his horrid hot head began aching

There once was a knight who loved kneading
And while cookbook recipes reading
He’d knead all his dough
With the tip of his toe
And believed that was truly good-deeding

But that same good knight hated stirring
And while the bread mixture was whirring
He’d look at the skunk
Who was mixing the junk
And smile while politely “good sir”-ing

And when it came time for the eating
With people the knight would be meeting
Then he would propose
“Let us now sit and doze
Until the bread sprouts into wheating!”

Okay, that turned out weird! I had to invent some new words… 😀  Hope you like it, Sam!

I’ll get to the rest of the prompts soon, I hope.  For now, Ben, would you like to write a poem about Windshield Wipers?

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[Jenna Terese]

@rochellaine Another great poem! I really like the rhythm of it 🙂

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[Rochellaine]

@jenwriter17 Thanks!  I can’t lay claim to the rhythm, though.  It’s in the style of the old-fashioned but beloved limerick.  😀  You said you don’t write poems very often, so if you’re looking to practice I’d suggest you try limericks.  They’re possibly the easiest style as to both rhythm and rhyme!

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[Jenna Terese]

@rochellaine I’ll keep that in mind, thanks 🙂

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[Ben Powell]

@rochellaine Well, I’ll pity the farmer then, for not being able to catch the giraffe. 😀

XD Yes, ‘twould be quite an undertaking to bake bread on your head.

Windshield wipers…sure, I can come up with something!

*goes to think up ideas*

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[Joy]

@jenwriter17  Yeah, I’m going on a hiatus until the end of the school year. Look here 🙂

You can pronounce it however you want.

[Rochellaine]

@jenwriter17 For you, my friend, a poem on Flying Penguins 

Flying penguins are so rare
That sooner would a cow with hair
As purple as your mother’s dress
Be seen than such, I do confess

Flying penguins are so strange
Giraffes on open Kansas range
Would be quite common, normal things
Compared to penguins with real wings

Flying penguins cannot be
They have no choice but not to be
Brave Hamlet’s lot was far above
A penguin flying like a dove

Flying penguins are so weird
The Jabberwocky we could beard
With much more ease than ever find
A penguin flying, to my mind

And flying penguins are so grand
That one is worth more in the hand
Than fifteen million bars of gold
Or one wombat named Leopold

(For a wombat named Leopold would really be
extremely rare since the name Leopold comes
from Germany and wombats come from Australia – but
wait! It actually wouldn’t be too strange since
Australia comes from Britain, and Britain comes from Germany.
Consensus: The Wombat is a German species.)

Tagging @supermonkey42 also since your Giraffe poem was referenced. 😉  Also tagging @dekreel because you said you’d like to still read the stuff here even if you don’t reply. 🙂  Hope you like it, friend Chasm Beast!

And Jen, do you think you could bring yourself to write a poem on A B<b>roken Air Conditioner</b>? 😀 😀

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