Poetry Challenge #171-Festivus for the Rest-of-Us
Festivus is a completely made up non-holiday created by screenwriter Dan O’Keefe and popularized when his son Daniel included it in the TV series Seinfeld. Traditionally, Festivus can be celebrated any time from December to May. But because the first Festivus on Seinfeld, which aired in 1997, was celebrated on December 23, now it’s officially a Thing! Festivus rituals include:
The Holiday Pole (an unadorned aluminum pole);
The Dinner (traditionally meatloaf and spaghetti);
Airing Of Grievances;
Feats Of Strength (wrestling) & Miracles.
Heck if they can do it, we can too!
Poetry Challenge #171
Festivus for the Rest-of-Us!
Imagine a Festivus of your own. What would you call it? How would you celebrate it? Would food be included? Decorations? Instead of Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength, what rituals would you include?
Write a Poem about your Festivus for the Rest-Of-Us. In the same way the U-S “us” ending of Festivus makes it easy to rhyme, give your Festivus a name with an easy-to-rhyme with ending, too. Once you’re finished set a date to celebrate (if only in your imagination.) Who knows, you might start a new tradition!
Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes
Start Writing
Don’t Think Too Much About it; just do it!
Festivus Playlist:
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge about 1700 days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.
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#55 STEW AGAIN???
What do you call a guy who spends too much time in the hot tub?
You guessed it! Which leads me to:
Seinfeld Friends, remember this?
Poetry Challenge #55
More Poem Stew
Time for another poem stew! Remember, you need two nouns (something you can see or touch, not capitalized if possible), a color, a place (not capitalized), an adjective (a word that describes), a verb (an action), and an abstract noun (a word that you can’t touch that names an idea: beauty, hope, justice, chance).
Come up with your own words or use the following:
negligee, mannequin, pink, garage sale, awkward, refrain, subterfuge
Set the timer for 7 minutes.
Start writing!
Don’t think about it too much; just do it.
More Poetry Stew Playlist:
Starting All Over Again by Hall & Oats
*Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 898 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. (This one is Cindy’s recipe.) If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.