Sunday 15 January 2012

Magpie 100











The ship, Titanic, out of luck,
Went down the night the iceberg struck.
And Deirdre, sadly, found out that you
Cannot swim, if you're a statue.

(With thanks to Magpie Tales for the picture)

20 comments:

  1. Haha - that's quite fun for a tragedy of such proportions!

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  2. ah concrete...can be a b sometimes

    thanks for the smile

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  3. that certainly might get in the way...ha...perhaps she will be raised once more by a dashing archeologist...

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  4. smiles..the good thing is she needs no air...smiles

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  5. Yet she breathes! Nice one Frances. I took something else from the prompt.

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  6. Interesting! Kind of sad though. Nice work!

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  7. I enjoyed your piece, but thought your last line undid your wonderful rhythm, one step too many. But I like the ironic take on such a disaster. Thanks for this!

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  8. Thanks for the kind comments, everyone!

    Misfit - I've italicised a word in th penultimate line to show that if you stress the right words, it really does scan. Trust me. I'm not a poet!

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  9. Charming little take on a sad bit of history...

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  10. If only she had wings or scuba gear ...

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  11. Thanks again! Im afraid I can't do long ones. I have the conentration of a gnat.

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  12. Frances....i love your sense of humor....clever and fun! :-)

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  13. Fairy Liquid, Iron Lady and your Magpie are all gems ...

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  14. Very amusing take on this Magpie! :-)

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  15. Thank you, Carrie, Helen and Nicholas.

    Helen - yes. This is rather worrying. It was started as a literary (or at least fairly bookish) blog, but seems to have morphed into a rather downmarket mish-mash of everything. Oh well...

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