2009 Headlines
 

Anybody want to do some year-in-review poems?

Might be fun?

Donna

YEAR IN REVIEW

First there was January.
Next thing I remember,
I was weak and waking up
and told it was December.
I presume that in between
ten other months transpired.
I don't recall what happened then,
but they sure made me tired.
  --12/29/09

Hey, it's a sonnet! Wikipedia, thanks!

Congress Averts Disaster, Bails Out Banks.
Obama Inaugurated; Nation Cheers.
Madoff to Serve A Hundred Fifty Years.
Century's Longest Total Solar Eclipse.
Icelandic Banks and Government Collapse.
H1N1 Flu Pandemic Seen.
Bush Fires Push Melbourne Temps to 115.
Yanks Win Series; Joy in NYC.
P. Samuelson, N. Borlaug: RIP.
Sri Lanka Ends Long-Running Civil War.
Data from NASA Lunar Orbiter
Analyzed: There's Water on the Moon.

A less conventional source says "World Ends Soon."

Yeah, that's what I had in mind! Funny stuff, thanks Roger and Maryann! More please.


cheers!
Donna

Political Year in Review

Obama took over
and on his first day
decided to give
a few billion away,
averting a crash
(in executive pay),
proving, despite
what his enemies say,
every bit ready
and willing as they
to guard and protect
the American Way.

Balloon Boy

The news trickled out that the boy hadn’t died;
he was hiding, he wasn’t along for the ride.
But something about the whole thing didn’t jive.
The media buzzed just like bees in a hive.

The anchorman asked the boy, why did you hide?
He glanced at his dad, “for the show” he replied.
Reality warped round a family of five...
BALLOON BOY IS BUSTED ON LARRY KING LIVE!

Pix of New Lover!
Supermarket tabloids scream
Even I have learned
To draw readers I must put
A Tiger in my tanka