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A Really Sad Tragic Poem, or Alas That I Ever Wrote This

Submitted by Candlelight on Fri, 08/17/2012 - 6:57pm

[to be read aloud, with great feeling]

 

Alas, I'm very sad.

I am not even glad.

I am so sad, alas.

Alas alas alas.

 

I am so sad and blue.

It makes me sob, boo-hoo.

O tragic day which is so tragic!

To make me happy you would need magic.

 

[deep sigh]

 

I'm in a sad, sad place.

I have a sad, sad face.

And since I am so sad,

I am, alas, very sad.

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wow, this is really good!

Submitted by cgmion1 on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 1:55pm.

wow, this is really good! like i could see this being an illustrated children's book or something that'd be really neat. might want to work on the title though ;P

Gee, thanks!

Submitted by Candlelight on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 5:00pm.

It is really lovely poetry, isn't it? This actually came out of a game I played with some friends where we tried to write the worst possible poem to a given (humorous) title. That's a great idea about the children's book. I wonder how it could be illustrated to make the irony clear to beginning readers.

cgmion1's picture

you already came up with

Submitted by cgmion1 on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 5:59pm.

you already came up with that! "[to be read aloud, with great feeling]"

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First of all, I think "alas"

Submitted by Shea_Savage on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 7:09pm.

First of all, I think "alas" may be my new word of the day (ha-ha). Very cool, especially seeing as it came out of a game you played with friends (my friends totally won't write anything with me, even something humorous).

Maybe, with the children's book idea, you could make the illustrations way over the top? That might help with translating the irony. Just an idea!

:)

Hmm, thanks...

Submitted by Candlelight on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 10:25pm.

Now I have a lot of ideas swirling around. A lot of kids' "emotion books" are sincerely illistrated over the top (see When Sophie gets angry...), so mere caricature might not suffice. Maybe a very clear color scheme (grayish cool) for the exaggerated pictures, with a cut to a giggling, snorting version of the protagonist in a corner in bright yellow and orange.