The otterblog is having a word contest. All you have to do is write a three sentence paragraph or a 5-7-5 haiku using the new words that Merriam Webster has added to their dictionary for 2007.
One of the new words is ginormous!
And the prize : a coffee cup from the Winston-Salem Journal!! Let the smackdown begin.
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Smackdown was my favorite word on the list, and you used it beautifully, LeatherWing.
No poetry is coming to mind at present, but I might be able to come up with something that will put your competitive poetry brain in a flex cuff.
First, I need more coffee.
Looking forward to seeing your haiku, LW.
Things are toasty in sunny Sanford. Come see us!
Giddy up!
Nodding his ginormous head to the crunk emitting from his hacked dvr,
Larry continued to read the gray literature about getting started in bollywood. He had given up on his plan to become a snowboardcross super-athlete after the IED blew him off the course in Nepal – like the worst RPG smackdown he’d ever been given except this one left him flex-cuffed to a hospital bed with little agnolotti shaped burns all over his body, a perfect storm of pain. Finding that the chaebol financed all productions through their sudoku holding companies and speed dating extortion rackets, suddenly Larry’s viewshed opened up, each piece of the hardscape a microgreen nocebo attempting to break his spirit, like the pimply kid in the telenovela he was ignoring in the background.
I am out of my league.
Completely.
I hope you win the coffee mug.
He declared a tie.
There were only two entries. The other was a haiku. The contest host appears to be a haiku man.
Friends don't let friends do haiku.
By the way Erin, I've read your stuff too and you're right, we're not in the same league.
I had all the words given to me and just connected them with nonsense. I've seen what you can do with a blank canvas.
But I'll keep trying.
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