Eleventh day of this year’s National Poetry Writing Month. Today’s prompt for today should be a little simpler. (As always,
the prompts are optional). Once upon a time, poetry was regularly used in
advertisements, most notably the Burma-Shave ads:
Said Farmer Brown
Who’s bald on top
“Wish I could
Rotate the crop”
Burma-Shave
Who’s bald on top
“Wish I could
Rotate the crop”
Burma-Shave
Or
She put a bullet
Through his hat
But he’s had closer
Shaves than that
Burma-Shave
Through his hat
But he’s had closer
Shaves than that
Burma-Shave
Today,
I challenge you to write your own advertisement-poem. You don’t need to advertise
Burma-Shave. Any product (or idea) will do. Perhaps you could write a poem
advertising poetry? It certainly could use the publicity! On that note, let me
leave you until tomorrow with this paen to the virtues of advertisement:
The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you what she’s done-
And so we scorn the codfish
While the humble hen we prize.
It only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise!
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you what she’s done-
And so we scorn the codfish
While the humble hen we prize.
It only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise!
- Anonymous
Also
I am participating in A to Z Challenge 2014
where we write 26 posts in a month each day on one word from A to Z barring
Sunday's. Today's word is "J".
I chose to market my blog through a jingle, as they say jingle is the best way to do it.
The tone for the jingle is based on this ad jingle of Nerolac Paints.
Source: Youtube
When you are looking for enjoyment
debate, argument or engagement
where is that,
where is that,
where is that,
at Scribble, at Scribble at Scribble at…
When you are looking for atonement
a poem, haiku or stories with some sentiment
where is that,
where is that,
where is that,
at Scribble, at Scribble at Scribble at…
When you are looking for abatement
without any whine or any complaint
a lot of laughter and amusement
where is that,
where is that,
where is that,
at Scribble, at Scribble at Scribble at…
~ Karan
http://andiwrite.com/ – Count
http://janakinagaraj.com/ - Janaki
http://jaibalarao.com/ - Jaibala
http://thoughtspop.wordpress.com/ – Nithya
http://ponderingtwo.blogspot.in/ – Rohan
http://juztamom.blogspot.in/ - Sfurti
That jingle's going to stay in my head all day.
ReplyDeleteaww you made my day Melanie :)
Deletethat's what a Jingle is made for, so that it stays with the reader/listener for a long time...thank you so much :)
I love the sing-song feel of this. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletethank you so much Fifi, glad to have you here :)
DeleteLol, this is intelligent! Now, your blog won't go out of my mind and also the phrase Where is that! :)
ReplyDeletehehehe, so objective achieved you see ;)
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