Short Commercialized Poems

Santa got fired for drinking some booze
On his ten minute break he took a snooze
He curled on couch for a nap.
But time went by in a snap
Awoke to the booze soaking his caboose


Note: Written for Carolyn's "Commercialized Humor" Contest...

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All you see are gifts and lights in the mall 
         Loads of Christmas trees standing tall
No wise men in sight 
            Vendors in a retail fight
The gist is lost in their race to enthrall 










3rd place
COMMERCIALIZED HOLIDAY
HUMOR CONTEST
Sponsored by: CAROLYN DEVONSHIRE...

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It's been decades since visiting Niagara

It's only a hundred miles or so from where I live

Criminal not to have experienced this majesty

Of this world famous heritage site

Unfortunately it has been commercialized

Practically from the beginning

But that doesn't diminish the splendour

Of this majestic world famous attraction...

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I wake up in the morning and
open the window to hear the
harmonizing birds singing to me,
an all-feathered chorus free of charge,
perched upon a stage of stately elm trees,
tweeting from the spreading of the limbs,
at first a faint sound and then another
until a refrain is heard throughout the yard,
I am pleased to hear their sound knowing
that life is more than a commercialized
environment in which there are gifts given
without conditions....

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Starting earlier every year,
Christmas costs more and more with less cheer.
This year Santa fell flat.
His diet took the fat,
Elves said,” this will not be good” they fear.

Watching commercials, they got idea.
Close diners, except pizzeria.
Each ad on T.V. now,
Pictures of pizzas wow!
Santa gains, without diarrhea.

Ads worked, he got a jolly belly.
Elves solemnly sat in a deli.
Commercialized just right,
His red suit fit so tight,
They needed petroleum jelly....

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Crazed commotion commercialized
Addictive actions appraised
Watching wearily waiting
Glances, glimpses gazed 

Cell phone checked consistently
No new numbers needing names
Conniving, covetous and creative
Greedy gigantic game

Where, who and what?
Questions queenly quailed 
Answers acquiring accuracy
For a fearing fortress failed  

Captured confidence compiling
Suspicions a soaring social sight
Distrusting defiant diligence
Readily rehearsing rights 

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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