Sunday Poetry Challenge!
http://onestoppoetry.com/2011/04/sunday-photography-interview-india-hobson-poetry-challenge.html#comments
http://onestoppoetry.com/2011/04/sunday-photography-interview-india-hobson-poetry-challenge.html#comments
Wow! Onestoppoetry are still in winning form as you can see if you follow the link and read today's interview. Thanks Onestop!
Thanks to India Hobson of India Hobson Photography. for providing us with a great challenge photo and allowing us to use it.
Paparazzi peek-a-boo
Paparazzi peek-a-boo,
You snap me and I snap you.
Artificial lightnings flare,
Flashes go off everywhere.
Who will get that magic shot?
Who has got it, who is hot?
Stars will flicker in the night
Lit by camera flashing light.
What’s the story? What’s the take?
Just what comment will we make?
Can we snap the hide-behind
And twist the image in your mind?
Who interprets what you see?
Is it you or is it me?
Make a story, break a heart,
Build success, tear one apart.
These are things that we can do.
Paparazzi peek-a-boo.
I like the way you sandwiched the poem between the repeated lines - wrapped it up nicely!:)
ReplyDeleteLove the "simplistic" nursery rhyme sound (not at all simple to pull of well). I think the poem really kicks into high gear when flashbulbs start going off. Fun, playful lines; yet very telling in regard to our visual culture.
ReplyDeletelove it sets a scene and has a great beat to it .
ReplyDeleteyou made rhyming couplets look really easy Pen, I'm jealous! I wonder sometimes if the paparazzi have conscience, or is it actually there fault, that today's society as a whole craves celebrity gossip so much, we love seeing heartbreak captured in heart wrenching photos. Great take
ReplyDeletenice. love the playful seriousness of this..
ReplyDeleteGreat one Penny !
ReplyDeleteYou really caught the feel of the paparazzi !
By the way so happy you like my answer to your challenge... it was more fun than I thought it would be !
JL&B