I love satiric humor. It might be the reason why I enjoy
shows like Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I
also consume the news unfiltered—living in a world without knowing what’s
ripping it apart (and holding it together) is never a good idea. Still, I doubt I
would be able to survive (or process the horror, without screaming my brains
out) if I couldn’t count on irony to lighten my heart up a bit.
So, for today’s
prompt, I invite you to write a new poem using one (2 or all 3 ) of
the following satire-rich cartoons from The New Yorker. Please, let us know
which cartoon(s) you chose to craft a poem about.
If you are feeling extra-inspired, make your contribution a
narrative poem, which tells the story taking place in the illustration and/or
the caption.
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“Yes,
the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time
we created a lot
of value for shareholders.”
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“A
few of us are going out after work to pretend it’s not the end of the world,
if
you want to join us.”
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“Remember
when we drank coffee with the paper?”
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Add the direct link to your poem to Mr. Linky. See what other Toads poetized out of the cartoons. Be well.
18 comments:
Hope you are having a wonderfully creative weekend, everyone.
What an interesting prompt! Irony!
The first picture made me think about the world of start-ups... quite similar to how we treat the world.
Loved the prompt, Magaly!💞 I shall be back in the morning to comment on the new poetic offerings. Bedtime here😊
Irony and satire fun in a bottle. Except I haven't gotten the bottle in yet. But I posted.
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@Toni, Boring is so paseé. 😁
@Bjorn, After reading your poem, I completely agree--similar to the way we treat our world and how we react after we realize we've made a mess of things.
@Sanaa, Sweet dreams!
@Jim, Interesting imagery... I'm off to see what you've bottled for you. 😊
I only have one shot glass - I may need to invest in a few more...
Cool prompt, Magaly. One doesnt know whether to laugh or cry....so irony definitely works. And wine!
@Margaret, Things are getting so bad that shot glasses might not be needed... Soon, jumping in a pool of booze might be the thing.
@Sherry, Laugh or cry (or kick people) indeed. Things are certainly getting ugly enough for apocalyptic intoxication for breakfast.
Hello All- Happy Sunday! Joining in!
Hello! I'm new here. First time participating in a prompt. I was quite inspired by the last cartoon and wrote to that. Thank you so much!
Love it. I chose the middle one. Thanks Magally for the inspiration!
@Linda, Happiest Sunday to you.
@Lori, Welcome to The Garden!
@Susie, Your poem is not showing...
Don’t know who is responsible, but somebody removed the link to my new revision of my poem “Fire Mark”, which I submitted in response to this prompt. OK, I got the message. I will not participate here any longer. I will remove my permanent link back to Toads. Very sad to find cencorship on a hobby site.
@robkistner, I removed the link. Not because this site is censored, but because the instructions for this prompt ask for a "new" poem. There have been and there will probably be prompts for "revised" poems in the future, but this particular one is for new poems only. One new poem. I apologize if requiring participants to follow the instructions of a prompt feels like censorship to you, but communities work well because everyone tries their best to follow the given rules. I hope you fee like you can participate in the future. If you can't, best of luck and poetry to you.
@robkistner, If you like, you are more than welcome to share the link to your revised poem tomorrow, on The Tuesday Platform.
Hi Magaly. Ok, my bad. I have been submitting to poetry sites for 2 decades. I always thought rewriting a poem to a fully revised new poem, was just that - a new poem? It isn’t my old poem, which is still on my site from 2012. You win the semantics discussion because you have the delete button, so I defer.
By the way Magaly, I like some of your poems but I am unable to comment on your site because your “who can comment” settings won’t allow non-Blogger poets to verify our cooments using our ‘Name’ plus our ‘URL address’ - so I can never leave praise on your site for your work. A couple other of the Blogger site poets also have not updated their settings, so I can’t comment for them either. Others have their settings correct, as does this IGWRT Blogger site - so I can post here with no problem. So when you don’t see me commenting about your fine poetry on your personal Blogger site, please know, that is why. I like much of your work.
I will repost my newly rewritten “Fire Mark” tomorrow. Regards to you Magaly. ...rob kistner
Rob, I am glad you've chosen to stick around. Thank you for letting me know about the comment settings on my site. I didn't realized people had to have a Blogger account to comment. I thought they could comment if they had a Google account. I will update the settings so that everyone can comment, and probably moderate (to avoid the anonymous robots). Read you around. :-)
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