Aug 7, 2011 - 6 Comments
We were listening to Josh and Chuck talk about Spam (mp3) recently on the Stuff You Should Know podcast and were inspired to make it our source for this week’s found poetry prompt.
This week’s prompt is SPAM (food or electronic).
Dig into the spam folder of your e-mail client and put those junk words to poetic use, or grab an article from SYSK’s post on e-mail spam or Wikipedia’s entry on electronic spam.
Prefer the canned meat variety? Write poem from the words found on a SPAM package, or visit the product’s website for more fodder. SYSK and Wikipedia also have great posts on the food product that can be mined for new poems.
As always, be sure to share the poem with us in the comments section. We look forward to seeing your work!
SPAM I AM POEM
If you could save
the Ocean Isle goats
would you divert thousands
of fresh new customers
daily to your website?
Would you act now?
What are you waiting for?
It might be your last chance
to post your ads
where people read them,
on outdoor living products.
(Does this mean cows, pigs,horses?)
You face two big deadlines
to protect your revenue,
to print online grocery
coupons, all brands,
to cut your food bills.
You, your partner and that
embarrassing elephant in the room
yell Yippee! Bargain books!
This is the end of the line,
Alienwear. No Limit. No mercy.
Carol A. Stephen
I think you did a great job putting this together. I Love the end of the first stanza.
Spoem
A poetic blogger named Tilly
has search engine terms just plain silly.
When I look at mine
I find them benign
but write spam poem I must, willy nilly.
I made four short ones:
Personal Ad?
Max:
Featured around the world.
The only male proven in trials.
The results took 6 months.
Quick, secure, free.
Want You Back.
Wanted to tell you that we’re better.
The new version will allow many games.
Make sure you want only her.
Advice
Enhance your play.
Get the most out of today.
Enjoy games.
Experience play.
Winner!
Protect yourself from the upcoming risk.
Bring down the whole world with you.
If you can read and are willing,
these jobs may be for you.
Everybody is a winner!
Jess, these are cool, but I especially like the first one! Made me smile! C
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