Saturday, May 18, 2019

Weekend Mini-Challenge: Oh, the (Poetic) Irony!

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.

“Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time 
we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
  

“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.”

“Remember when we drank coffee with the paper?”


Add the direct link to your poem to Mr. Linky. See what other Toads poetized out of the cartoons. Be well.

  

18 comments:

Magaly Guerrero said...

Hope you are having a wonderfully creative weekend, everyone.

tonispencer said...

What an interesting prompt! Irony!

brudberg said...

The first picture made me think about the world of start-ups... quite similar to how we treat the world.

Sanaa Rizvi said...

Loved the prompt, Magaly!💞 I shall be back in the morning to comment on the new poetic offerings. Bedtime here😊

Jim said...

Irony and satire fun in a bottle. Except I haven't gotten the bottle in yet. But I posted.
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Magaly Guerrero said...

@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. 😊

Margaret said...

I only have one shot glass - I may need to invest in a few more...

Sherry Blue Sky said...

Cool prompt, Magaly. One doesnt know whether to laugh or cry....so irony definitely works. And wine!

Magaly Guerrero said...

@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.

Linda Lee Lyberg said...

Hello All- Happy Sunday! Joining in!

Lori said...

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!

Susie Clevenger said...

Love it. I chose the middle one. Thanks Magally for the inspiration!

Magaly Guerrero said...

@Linda, Happiest Sunday to you.

@Lori, Welcome to The Garden!

@Susie, Your poem is not showing...

robkistner said...

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.

Magaly Guerrero said...

@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.

Magaly Guerrero said...

@robkistner, If you like, you are more than welcome to share the link to your revised poem tomorrow, on The Tuesday Platform.

robkistner said...

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

Magaly Guerrero said...

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. :-)