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Email Hell (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)

Today’s limerick and haiku theme is email and/or spam. First, my limerick:

I’m out of the office right now.
Do I hate answ’ring email? And how!
Missed your missive? I’m glad,
So I won’t say I’m sad.
Pester some other worker-bee. Ciao!

And now my three spam-related haiku:

Suffocating spam
Pours into my computer,
Drowning out meaning.

Virulent spammers
Take over my computer,
Devouring its core.

My email pours in,
The meaningful lost,
Strangled by spam.

Now, of course, it’s your turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about email and/or spam. When you’ve posted your verse, please return here and add a direct link to your themed poetry, using Mr. Linky. There’s no rush, by the way, because you have a whole week to post it.

 

Limerick and Haiku Prompts Participants
 

1. Connie
2. Noah the Great		 3. Noah the Great
4. Linda – Nickers and Ink		 5. Felix Morgenstern

UPDATE: Mr. Linky is now closed, but you can still add links to your email-themed verse in the Comments. And if you’d like to participate in a new poetry prompt, you can always find my latest one here.

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2 Responses to “Email Hell (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)”

  1. Linda - Nickers and Ink says:
    May 10, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Good prompt!

    Here’s my limerick:

    SPAM-JAM, at Nickers and Ink

  2. Felix Morgenstern says:
    May 15, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Neither limerick nor haiku, I’m afraid, but on the topic: Short ghazal honoring spam.