This week let’s write a Holiday Listicle poem. If you’ve spent any time on the internet you’ve seen those ads for listicles with catchy titles like “7 Reasons Cats Hate Christmas” or “9 New Years Resolutions to Astound your Friends” or “13 Gift Ideas for a Curmudgeonly Old Poet”. I don’t care if the poem you write has anything to do with the title or not. In fact, I think it’s funnier to imagine people taking the clickbait then being confused by your poem, but maybe that’s just me.
Post your title and poem in the comments below and have a Happy Whatever!
Living Poetry 
Anti-Chistmaa
Didn’t want to slave over the 7 fishes
So my children cooked the meal
Don’t need another sweater
Getting a mani-pedi instead
Cell phone going
New screen for the hand me down iPhone
Dull knives getting sharpened
Christmas cards done
Presents in boxes, no bows,
Ecologically sounder
Reaction to excess or response to fatigue
A little of both
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Posted by Second Act Blogger | December 23, 2022, 3:41 PMBoth a good plan and a good poem. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 23, 2022, 7:11 PMHooray for the anti-fatigue Christmas where less is more, more or less.
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Posted by ts19page | December 24, 2022, 11:39 AMEveryone Knows Why Cats Hate Christmas
1. Strangers trying to touch them
2. Boxes and shrieking
3. Dancing human feet (hard on the tail)
4. Shiny things they can’t have
5. Not enough tuna
Meow?
Apparently
I am part cat
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 21, 2022, 3:26 AMVery cute
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Posted by Second Act Blogger | December 21, 2022, 11:04 PMMerry Christmas to the Cat Poetess!
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Posted by ts19page | December 22, 2022, 9:10 AMTo you as well
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 22, 2022, 9:38 AM1Thank you
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Posted by ts19page | December 23, 2022, 2:11 PMWell done! There should be more tuna-filled tree ornaments.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 22, 2022, 5:34 PMLikeLike
Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2022, 7:12 PMThe chance to light people up with amazement or just puzzelment is hard to resist, and the Season of Giving is the perfect chance to inveigle into bafflment that ‘person’ next door.
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Posted by ts19page | December 22, 2022, 9:08 AMHmmm., comments don’t seem to be showing up
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Posted by Chris Clarke | December 20, 2022, 12:43 PMIs there something that prevent https link in a WordPress posting here? My poem includes a URL link. I’ve seen links here before but my posting doesn’t want to appear…
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Posted by Chris Clarke | December 20, 2022, 1:01 PMYeah, looks like the WordPress comment scanner thought your poem was spam. Don’t take it personally, it’s probably because of the URL. I was able to override things so it appears now.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2022, 7:15 PMWe have read
all the ways
cutlery can make
or break
the holidays
So when I saw
a list of things
we can do to make the holidays
bright with spoons
I had to read on
I eagerly clicked
the link there in
that supposedly listed
many ways to be happy
this Christmas with spoons
But the list only had one entry
the one numbered 404
I sat there and wondered
where were the other 403?
https://lenticularus9.wixsite.com/10-fun-ways-spoons
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Posted by Chris Clarke | December 20, 2022, 12:38 PMHa! They got you to click, didn’t they? Great little story/example.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2022, 7:17 PMI hate those kind of click-bait sites. So when this prompt was offered, I just had the crazy idea to make such a site myself, with just a 404 (or like a 404) error. What would someone who actually would click on it say when not 10 but the 404 items were listed! Where are the other 403 item?
A snarky responce could something like “You can’t see the 403rd one… it’s forbidden” but you have know http error codes. Nevertheless, it certainly was fun to do.
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Posted by Chris Clarke | December 20, 2022, 8:51 PMLove the last line. Also, spoons are my favorite cutlery utensil!
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 21, 2022, 3:18 AMA spoonful of irony makes the season go down.
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Posted by ts19page | December 22, 2022, 9:05 AM