Categories: The Lighter Side
Sign up for the Talent Show and Poetry Slam
By: Kathy Grassel
your friendly talent show Emcee
No doubt about it, people who do TCC have talent. How many of you thought you had no talent before you started practicing TCC? Suddenly you could tap dance and sing La Traviata. TCC is famous for shyness reduction, so are you one of those who would like to bring your talent out of the closet and onto the stage at the Conference? E-mail me with your desires.
Most likely we will also have a haiku and pyramid poetry slam on Friday night, dividing ourselves into sectors and having Antonia, Pam, and Sandy be judges. You’ll be given a subject on the spot and have five minutes to write. Say, the subject is Thanksgiving haiku. Haiku has 17 syllables in three lines of 5-7-5.
Modern pilgrims wear
Land’s End and L.L. Bean gear
Now how Plymouth rocks!
Modern turkeys have
abnormally big breasts
Scrawny birds no more.
Who would ever guess
cranberry sauce from a can
used to be a plant?
Everyone knows how to write pyramid poetry. If not, go ask Sr. Alice.
How
easy!
Pyramid
poetry is
inviting
us to
win!
Topics: Conferences and Retreats, Humor, Poetry
Originally appeared in: April 2005