Each year on what would have been
my Grandma Betty's birthday,
I like to invite all of my friends
to participate in rhyme play.
The goal is to encourage smokers
to show more love for their lungs,
and teach children to hate those lung chokers
that many love though they taste like bung.
Last year I had a limerick contest
but this year I'll allow all rhymes.
I will decide which three poems I like best
and award REAL PRIZES of the etsy kind...
RULES:
(1) Please keep your rhyme to 20 lines or less
and write about how quitting smoking is for the best.
(2) Post your rhyme in the comments section below
and/or on your blog and use Mister Linky (below) to let us know.
(3) If you post the rhyme on your blog please share
the link to my contest to help show others there.
(4) Use my first lines below or write your own.
Know that I prefer you use humor to make your feelings known.
(5) Enter by midnight on Saturday, April 21st
and please share this post at the sites you socialize most.
PRIZES!!
Three lucky winners will win poetocard subscriptions and coupons
to shop at my etsy shop for themselves, friends or their moms.
1st Prize - Free 1 year Poetocard Subscription plus a 25% off coupon for my etsy shop
2nd Prize - Free 1 year Poetocard Subscription plus a 20% off coupon for my etsy shop
3rd Prize - Free 1 year Poetocard Subscription plus a 15% off coupon for my etsy shop
RHYMES
Without further adieu,
here's some rhymes to help you
get inspired to write a ditty too!
Cheers, quitter!
by Rachel Hoyt
Cheers to you, you quitter!
Try not to look so bitter.
In the long run you'll be fitter...
and possibly a really great knitter?
Cold Turkey
by Rachel Hoyt
I'm not looking back.
(puff, puff, hack, hack)
Although I hear you there
and still smell you on my hair,
I will chose to ignore,
to brave this tough chore,
to avoid a self-induced whack...
(puff, puff, hack, hack)
Puffing Pete
by Rachel Hoyt
Puffing Pete
thought it was neat
to make smoke rings
and set fire to things
until one day a child looked at him and said,
"Sir, halos are coming out of your head.
I think that means you're nearly dead."
poems above © 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
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Dear Rachel,
ReplyDeleteYou will make every reader smile after reading your work. You are talented and funny. This is a good way to start my day!!
*BIG SMILES* :) Thank you, Andy. I'm glad you enjoyed it so. :)
DeleteHey Rachel, thanks for the great prompt it really got my anti-smoking juices flowing:) Here's my entry -
ReplyDeleteCoffin nails and death sticks
Are different names for cigarettes
And other things you mustn't smoke
So you don't lose lung cancer's bets
They do not call them vigour-ettes
They do not call them pillars of life
Because they're the pin in the hinge of Death's door
That creaks when he comes to take your life
Unless you're a chimney or a steam train
You mustn't puff a smoky cloud
And line your lungs with sticky tar
It will not make your mother proud
It's never too late to give up smoking
To put the packet in the bin
And hopefully you will be joking
While lung cancer is sore that it didn't win!
Thank YOU for the fun entry! Smiles. :)
DeleteI've been done with the smokes for well over a year.
ReplyDeleteThe cravings and withdraw were rather severe,
but with pains in the chest and shortness of breath,
each smoke that you smoke leads you closer to death.
And now that they've got over $5 a pack,
I doubt that I'll ever get the urge to go back.
If there's one thing I care about more than my health,
it's the cash in my wallet and my delusions of wealth.
They say that I'm cheap, but at least I'm smoke free.
Now if I could just lose the weight,
I'd be as fine as could be.
...that should be "now that they've GONE over $5 a pack"
DeleteI might post this somewhere else too. I just thought of it off the top of my head.
Congrats on being one year smoke free! I'm smiling both from your rhyme and for thee. :)
DeletePosted the poem on the Sunny Blog.
DeleteThen a link for you, and then a link for me.
And I think we're all set ;D
Smiles, Bryan. :)
Deletenice..they just did this at my kids school too...very cool...
ReplyDeletespeaking through your neck
makes you sound metallic
i say this cause i love you
not to be a smart alec
& would rather you be in my life
a whole lot longer
Ha! I love the your neck / metallic / smart alec rhyme. :)
DeleteGreat idea! I'll get to work!
ReplyDeleteYay! I look forward to seeing what you come up with. :)
DeleteLove what your doing here, I haven't smokes for a more than a few months and just lost of friend to breast and lung cancer. God Bless you
ReplyDeletehttp://leah-jamielynn.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/pink-is-the-color-of-super-heroes.html
Thank you, sweetie. And, congrats on quitting!
DeleteSounds interesting. This is a great social initiative as well. Good luck and great idea.
ReplyDeleteJoy always,
Susan
Thank you, Susan. :)
DeleteMissed your rhymes Rachel. I have been out circulation for quite some time now. I am still not a quitter so I wonder if I can support this contest, Ha,ha,ha...
ReplyDeletehttp://rimlybezbaruah.blogspot.in/2012/04/blooming-bud.html
Hi Rimly!! :) Great to see you. Not a quitter, eh? LOL I'm allowing submissions from all types... but you do have to write about quitting. It might be too hypocritical for you though, I dunno... :)
DeleteThis is so cool : ) Here's one from a novice rhymer:
ReplyDeleteA cigarette a day
Will keep nothing at bay
Embrace life without smoke
Before its late and you choke
Apologies at the shoddy work ; )
This is great, Kriti! :) Short and sweet. :) Thank you for entering.
DeleteThis is awesome. Poetry for a great cause. I'm in! I'll be working on my poem today and will post/link up tomorrow (friday, 20th). Great fun!
ReplyDeleteYay! Thank you for committing to enter Janice. :) I'm so glad you appreciate the cause. :)
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