DO NOT LIKE YOUR NEWS
BRENDAN CARR SAYS CHANGE YOUR VIEWS
OR LICENSE YOU LOSE
Words from Abroad!
Rent just came out of the bank wearing a
different kind of city.
Seems as news like us won't turn around.
Some Easters don't give great advice
Linda Annie
She ths dressed day forgotten
Worked out of abandon
She the hip hop record outta San Fran mind
Bailed out on joy, full of hurt promises
Used as a mail box named
Linda Annie, wouldn't arrive
Wouldn't arrive lest the stage crowded in
Sop
Sop and left over dues
Over the diligent boss
Less convoluted when shalks grease the pat
Throughout a program playing so
Or the streaming of a show,
Commercials advertise the new...
Broadcasting to me and you.
Only seconds long, they toss
Their message out to get across.
Straightforward - sometimes with humour
To appeal to the consumer.
Marketed products for sale...
New lines of recent retail.
Variations of a flavour
Or something similar to savour.
Through jingles and spoken word...
Business making itself heard.
Near future events of outing
Made aware of - without shouting.
Samples of what can be seen
Coming soon to the big screen.
What television has in store
On channels, services and more.
Commercials may often employ
A sense of delay and annoy.
Still, their purpose is promotion...
It is our choice to make notion.
rain falling down down
rain falling down up down up
flooding conditions
The turkey couple stomped out of their shed,
For the short season that all turkeys dread,
“We quit, we’re done,”
“We want to have fun,”
"OVENS OFF! DON’T DISTURB! We’re off to bed."
19/11/22
A Brian Stand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
The programs for them wondrously keen,
BBC celebrates more than Queen
Nice expression they don’t look twice at
For their Main News and adored broadcasts;
At such times A Most Unwelcome Gnat;
The Sympathizing Staff for Good Blasts!
BBC would eat The Whole Ice Cream,
Their Unmoved Hearer: Strange Human Being!
A just deceived Avid African
Freeing the ones he’d sealed in a can
For Hitler-Type Devastating Hits,
Sure that every Letter Atom fits…
And BBC Air Waves would not wait
To Vibrant Wisdom publish its weight;
Yet, can have their Late Thatcher advised
Not to near one For Speeches Revised,
Each bound to have made a story
Of the Gossipy to The Tory…
African Proverbs like Cow Boys:
US Heritage that all hearts buoys
Yet, Ears spares Shocking Intelligence
Granting them Artistic Evidence…
Man’s Sincerest of flattery,
Not Praises with Lasting Battery,
But to go ahead and imitate…
BBC foundation initiate!
and off to the horizon
the sun appeared
as if to announce
this would be a day
unlike all others
in its full glory
with a quick stretch and yawn
it rose above the clouds
determined to conquer
time and every foe
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
how
i
love
listening
to
the
whisper
in
your
voice
of
midnight
stars
AP: 1st place 2021
K-een
I-ndividual
S-imply
S-preads
E-xcellent
S-tatement
J-ust
A-dvancing
B-roadcast
S-peaking
O-f
N-ews
Topic: Birthday of Broadcaster Kisses Jabson (December 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Nicoletta Nunez announces noon and nightly news
Silvia De Silva sends the news at six and seven
Nunez is in Newark with De Silva in Seattle
Between them both, better bet there is broadcast battle
12/6/17
J-ust broadcast the news,
O-n air and online;
A-ll updates are spoken,
N-ever cease feeding the mind.
M-any a TV viewer
I-s watching you everyday;
R-egardless of the prime programs,
A-ll they want is what you say.
N-etwork's rating is high,
D-oing well, ready to cruise;
O-n the twenty-fourth of June, just broadcast the news.
The music interrupted,
We all listened for the why.
An announcer gave a warning
That a thunderstorm was nigh.
He was very time-specific
For the counties that he named
And I wonder if the weather
Will be scary as he claimed.
On the back porch I am sitting,
Gazing upwards at the sky
Where I must admit a big black cloud
Is waiting there, on high.
But there's still a bit of sunshine
So it's possible we'll skirt
Such a downpour that deserves
Such an emergency alert.
Forty minutes are remaining
If the broadcasters are wise
And if nothing comes to pass, it won't be
Much of a surprise.
Broadcast what you know well
Live after as a tale to tell
Figure out ways to owning up
To anyone you helped disrupt
Be taller than six feet down
Not only a loss in your town
Welcome to our broadcast,
We're glad that you've tuned in.
We'll tell you all the latest news,
Come on now, let's begin.
Andy allegedly yanked off
Wacky Wendy's wig.
It caused Wendy to screech and scream,
While Andy danced a jig.
Police weren't able to catch him,
But they did locate the wig.
Andy allegedly placed it
On Farmer Fred's pig.
Curvy Carla caused a pile up,
Late one afternoon.
She took a stroll, bikini clad,
And caused some men to swoon.
The men were treated at the scene,
For hyperventilation.
Curvy Carla got a ticket,
For excessive titillation.
That's all the news we have right now.
We'll be back when we've more to tell.
Thank you again for tuning in.
By golly, you've all been swell!
11/27/11
Kim Merryman
Entered in PD's "Make Me Smile" contest
The winter turns
completely upside down
When we go mind to mind
In an elevated round
Of cyber synapse.
Perhaps.
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