[Donna English]

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

Might be fun?

Donna

[Roger Slater]

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

[Maryann Corbett]

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."

[Donna English]

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


cheers!
Donna

[Roger Slater]

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.

[Donna English]

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!

[Michael Cantor]

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