Showing posts with label quit smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quit smoking. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Announcement - Lung Love Rhyme Contest Winners

Congrats to the winners!




I would first like to thank all who participated.
Reading your rhymes made me feel elated.
It was hard for me to pick a top three
but I've come to a decision, finally!


1st Place - Lolamouse

You started off thinking it cool
But ended up looking the fool
Your lungs have turned black
Your clothes reek; you hack
Should have listened to those films at school!


2nd Place - Brian Miller

speaking 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


3rd Place - Bryan White

I've been done with the smokes for well over a year.
The 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 gone 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!


I will contact you soon about your prizes! Congratulations!
You three are this year's lung love rhyming sensations!!


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Monday, April 16, 2012

Monday Fun Day - Lung Love Rhyme Contest



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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