» poem | One Dollar Jackpot - 25 Words or Less Competition

Maple Syrup, back bacon,
Red Leaf on white striped flag
Bilingual Signs on the roads you’re takin’
Trip to Canada, eh; pack your bag!

Welcome to Canadia - land of the North American Frenchie. I’ve never been to Canadania, nor have I been to America, but I’m sure they’re wonderful places. I have a friend who works in the ski fields up in Canadanadia - he says it’s a great place. His name isn’t Jerry but here’s someone who is…

Jerry rode his bike one night
Wore dark clothes without a light
Car came roaring down the street
Knocked poor Jerry fifty feet.

Jerry isn’t so smart is he? He would have been safe if he’d use an ‘eh’ - but apparently he has no care for his safety. Stupid Jerry. Benjamin can you tell Jerry to use an ‘eh’ next time he enters this competition? Tell him to be more like Ruth - because Ruth knows what’s going on.

Ruth was riding on my motorcycle
Directly in back of me.
I hit a bump at 105
And went on ruthlessly.
Eh?

It’s funny because he was ruth-less-ly. Oh the hilarity!

A poem I have write today,
A poem including the word eh?
Can’t think of anything to say,
I’ll try again tomorrow, OK?
Kerrie you sure can have another go - in fact you can have a dollar for your work and then have another go. I just dare you to spend that dollar all at once.

Enjoy eh?

There once was a guy called Ray
Who came past my house to say
He sat on his bum
and twiddled his thumb
He had lost the other one eh?

That’s for all you Canadians eh?

Why not enter today’s competition? It’s not hard - all you have to do is create a poem with the use of the word ‘eh?’

Give it a shot eh?

Okay - it’s poem time. I know some of you love poems, and I’m going to make it as easy as pie for those who keep entering the competition with simple sentences - simple boring sentences.

All you have to do today is enter a poem. The poem will include one or more the following words:

• Frank
• Prozac
• Crystal
• Book

For your reference I have provided a sample poem.

Never have I seen a Frank
Taking prozac in a bank
If I could I’d book to see it

I like crystal don’t you?

That’s how I roll.
I think my work here is done.

Enter Now!

Three chances to lie… it’s an easy game to play, it’s an easy game to win.

Here’s the rules:

State three things about yourself. Two must be true, one must be a lie.

The difference with today’s competition is that the entries must be public! You can only enter today’s jackpot by leaving at least one comment here on this post.

Why? Because names will be attributed to the person/thing entering. You will be able to play along at the same time by guessing the true/untrue statements for whoever has entered.

I will judge the winner as per usual, the best wins - so make it creative, make it interesting, make a poem, a haiku or something witty. If you’re stuck for ideas, take a look through some older posts to check what others have done to be creative.

What are you waiting for? Come on down and enter now.

Roses are red, violets are blue
Onedollarjackpot.com
Not up dated for you.

With my great powers of observation and web design, I failed to update the front page for about 13hrs yesterday and received some nice entries that had nothing to do with the competition I thought I was running!

Dang.

As a result we didn’t get the 100 entries I would have liked, but hey I partied in my own little way - I went to soccer training and hurt my lungs with some exercise.

Now that I can breathe again I’ve decided in my most humble tone, to release the winner for today and the runner-ups.

The first last placers.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
Most poems have rhymes,
This one doesn’t always even scan properly

Hey - you’ve still got #49 up!

Roses are red,
violets are blue
If only bad poems were strictly taboo.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Make the prize bigger,
you miserly Ed: removed!

Roses are red,
Daffodills are yellow
Clouds on a summer day
Puffy pieces of marshmallow

Redwoods are orange
Blueberries are purple
What’s the deal
With fooling the people?
Ed: I’m an idiot?

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
and neither of these smell like a big brown poo

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
and I just flushed both right down the loo

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
I just saw both when I went to Kakadu

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
if you’re mentally ill,
you may think this untrue

Ed: This one invalid but still worth putting in…
Roses are Red,
Violets are blue.
Whoever wrote this stupid little poem has forever misinformed all the children of the world by telling them that violets are blue when violets should be violet and therefore it sucks to be you.

The little prize for the day - a small humble dollar. The pride you feel when you win? Muchly.

Chuck is a proud man today - Chuck is a great man today. Chuck… enjoy your wonderful dollar. I’m pretty sure you won’t be spending it on anyone else but yourself!

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
don’t think for a second that I’m going to give either to you!

You’ve got a favourite website right? You know that one you just keep visiting all the time?

For this competition today I want you to let us know what it is, by writing a lovely poem about/to them. Maybe you could write to the owners and give a little bit of love back.

Make sure it’s not your own website though, that could be weird and bizzare. It could go something like this:

Google you’re the pants,

You make me happy, I am Ants.

If I could see you here right now

I would like to hug you.

If that isn’t the best poem you have ever read, I don’t know what is. Anyway I’m gonna let you be the master of the poem. Of course because this competition allows you as many entries as you want, you can also write about multiple websites. Oh and my choice of website was pretty lame - everyone likes Google. Give up something new