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Judas
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Welcome to the Poem Pot Everyone!

If anyone has been to SomethingAwful.com - they may have noticed that they have this thing called 'Photoshop Phriday', where they choose a subject and everyone sends in their beautifully messed up and hilarious works of art that meet the subject criteria - Well for the wonderful forum of Books, Films, Food and (not just American) Culture- I bring the Poem Pot Phriday! Where we do exactly the same thing!.. just.. with poems.. see?

This Phriday's Topic for Poems issss:

-/-\-/-\-( President Bush )-/-\-/-\-

Don't post your poem till Phriday!
The winner chooses the next week's topic!

Winner goes to the popular consensus- if there isn't one, i'll choose. And if there's too much pressure by making it sound like a contest, we can drop that idea. You got a day to prepare a poem- it can be as stupid or short or long or as intricate as you want.- late poems are acceptable. Try to stay on topic.

[ February 02, 2005, 11:14 PM: Message edited by: Judas ]
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Oh boy, this will be interesting.
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Judas
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Thursday is today,
Tomorrow is when we play.

Don't give me dirty looks,
just 'cause I chose Bush... [Roll Eyes]

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Judas
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So - Anyone planning on getting in on this tomorrow?

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Annie
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You bet your buttons.
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Judas
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Bumping it up while I go get new strings for my guitar,
I shouldn't be too long though cause the place is not that far.

Judas

rhyming isn't required
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St. Yogi
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm sorry Bush,
I misunderestimated you
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George W. Bush
If he were on fire he'd be a
Burning Bush.
If he were an aborigine, he'd be a
Bush-man.
If he was worth one bird in the hand he'd be
Two in the Bush.
If he were a Japanese warrior code, he'd be
Bushido.
If he were a beer company, he'd be
Anheuser-Busch.
It's tiring coming up with these joke about our President's name--
I'm bushed!
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Nato
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The first one I came up with wasn't quite highbrow enough for the Cards' living room.

Here's a sesond one:

The Bush/Cheney Couplet:
Cheney's a goof,
With Bush as dumb as a rail,
You'd be surprised,
That he's a grad out of Yale.

Bushflowers
Roses are red,
The President's yellow,
I don't like him much,
'Cause his spine's all like Jell-O.

A fourth?

Busharick?
I wrote a poem 'bout him,
The one who invades on a whim,
But it was so good,
And as a good poem should,
It called that Georgie real dim.

[ February 04, 2005, 06:27 AM: Message edited by: Nato ]
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KarlEd
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[with appologies to Gelett Burgess]

I never saw a Burning Bush,
I never hoped to see one,
But if I man the Pearly Gates,
Ole Georgie just might be one!

[waits patiently for the Secret Service to come a knockin']

[ February 04, 2005, 07:09 AM: Message edited by: KarlEd ]
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TomDavidson
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There's something stale in his eyes --
not hard, not wicked, not particularly sly,
just halfway dead from the strain of a smile
without smirking, from keeping his thumb
from tucking under his belt, cowboy-style,
and trying hard to not look absolutely numb.

Numb, not dumb: you can see each thought
as it passes through his ears,
so it's crystal clear
that he has them; dumb he's not.
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Judas
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Alright! Looks like the ball is rollin- Come on Jatraqueros! Wield thy pencils! ... or keyboards.. or something..

My short poem:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I know how to spell,
I thought you should know-
DOn't Argue with me

I'm El Presidento!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Judas
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Nato
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I won't tell the Department of Homeland Security on you Karl, I'm too busy laughing.
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With a Texas drawl
And a malapropism
G. Dubbya inveigled a brawl
That fueled a nation's schism

With fervent support applenty
And fearsome might at hand
Iraq was invaded, none to gently
And blood was shed across the land

No weapons of mass destruction
Were prized from near or far
Yet on he strode, impervious to detraction
As we strove, diligently, to polish the mar.

[ February 04, 2005, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
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Judas
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I don't know enough of those word's definitions.. that makes me sad.. heh, but i will as soon as i open dictionary.com.. --- Is this topic too difficult for some of ya? I should've gone with bacon.. I knew it..

I knew I was mistaken..
I should have gone with bacon..

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KarlEd
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I vote TomD's. Well crafted and subtly witty.
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Scott R
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I have no idea who you're stealing from there, Karl, and I would take Bush over Kerry any day of the week, but I like yours the best.

[ February 08, 2005, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: Scott R ]
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KarlEd
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Gelett Burgess wrote:

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hoped to see one,
But I can tell you anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

If you've never heard that one before, you've missed out on a gem of poetic literature indeed. [Big Grin]
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Didn't everyone's grandmother quote that poem to them as a child? No? Okay, I'll go back in my cave, then.
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Scott R
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This thread is part of the Grand Jatraquero Poetry Bump.

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