Backspace Erased Smiley Face
Friday, July 7th, 2006
I bet you’ll tell me this crap is great,
and create a calligram smiley face
behind strings of phony praise
and confidence boosting barbs
beckoning me to continue
with my uneducated attempts
to write
poetry with meaning,
leaning on a web thesaurus
for synonym support to uphold
a clicheless catwalk of words
strutting their stuff in unison
for a common cause – to strike
emotion into the wanting minds of
readers reading
such horseshit laced,
backspace erased crap as mine
signed in phony calligram spammed
smiley faced comments
Hey great crap!
Here’s an interesting link about the creation of smiley faces.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_031.html
enjoy
,/,/,/ !! \,\,\, crunchy weta
I learned this one in the newspaper world…No Comment.
Glen, Thanks! A good crapping is always a relief, and thank you for sharing the smiley face resource.
Shirley, this is just a piece of art and design, not to be taken personally. This is welcome to comments just as any other of my poems.
I know, I just always wanted to say that. This seemed like the perfect time!
Heh, Travis, the left alignment really upsets and destroys the charm of the words. Funny no, how we get influenced by merely some form of decoration? :)
Shirley, ok, cool. Given the content of this poem, I can understand that. :)
Bert, Thank you for your insight. I agree with you, especially on this particular poem. I felt by writing it in this form it felt less harsh then the left aligned version. I didn’t want to scare anyone away!
You’ve made “crap” look good. :P The left-aligned version does look harsh. Amazing.
how on earth do u get such ideas? well travis! am trying to supress my jealousy!!! KUDOS !!!!!
Cecilia, you’re right, the difference between the two are amazing even though they are the same text, just presented differently.
emptyvessel, I don’t get such ideas, they get me! :)
May I put my two cents in for the left aligned version. Yes, it is in appearance a little harsh, but the text seems to support that feeling. It feels almost like a slap in the face. This can be a good thing. If I need to be slapped in the face don’t pretty it up with embellishments in the attempt to soften the blow. The truth is that way sometimes. A little harsh. Hard. Sharp.
Actually, I like it both ways. I just thought to play the devils advocate for a change. Nice work.
You are exactly right Ron! Your two cents are priceless.
The flow of words, the intermarriage of connectives, consonants and the way the vowels seem to jump out at the reader, captivating him / her to keep reading, just to see if it this horseshit ends…
Okay, see, i cannot analyze poems, which is why a simple ‘This crap is great, you’re wonderful :-)’ will do.
I bet you’ll tell me this crap is great,
and create a calligram smiley face
“It’s lovely Darling and so True”
(Now come and give my Blog a view)
:) henry
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