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HEADLINE POETRY 2

July 11th 2007 04:37

To recap, the idea of Headline Poetry is to take the letters which make up an existing Newspaper Headline in order and use them as the first letters of new words to create a poem which is relevant to the original story and headline. The following Headline comes from the Sydney Morning Herald on July 11-2007. It leads a story about the Australian Prime Minister's view of things in Iraq.

"NO DOUBT US WILL STAY COURSE IN IRAQ, SAYS PM"

Necessity
Ordains.

Depleted
Oil
Underground
Brings
Troops.

Unhappy
Sands.

Whatabout
llluminating
Life's
Losers

Screams
Texan
American
Yokel.

Certain
Originally
Unseen
Republicans
Sense
Error,

Indulge
Non-partisanship.

Identifiable
Rationalisations
Agglomerate
Queerly,

Signalling
Asymmetrical
Yearnings
Surely

Promising
Mayhem.

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Posted By: Byron Twain - Category: American, English, Australian

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Comment by Jeanne Dininni

July 11th 2007 05:08

Writer's Notes

Byron,

Another thought-provoking read!

Jeanne

Comment by Lily

July 11th 2007 07:14

Ars Poetica

Whatabout
llluminating
Life's
Losers

I'd like to see that
very clever Byron..

~Lily

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