Flirting with latest trends, they slink and preen
Alert to every change, as night to day
Strutting their stuff upon the fashion scene
Heavenly bodies on the glitt'ring way
If it is "in", they have to have it so
Only an hour will make it yesterday
Nothing can match the satisfaction's glow
Making the others' raiment so passé.
Oh, that they might invent a fresh idea
No, they can only copy slavishly,
Grabbing the latest rags as they appear
Each with the others vying fev'rishly
Reaching for stardom which will never last
Soon to be buried in the dusty past.
Author notes
Fashionmongers
A contest entry
- Acrostic Sonnets for Big Points! by PerVirtuous.
7000 points, ended September 23, 2008, 9 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Outstanding
I agree with a lot of what your saying in this poem. Fashion is an exciting world but one that is very shallow. Only a few very rich people can afford to buy the clothes you see on the cat walks anyway and most of what you see would never be practical in everyday life. I thought this poem was well-written and that you are a master of rhyme. Congratulations on the trophy.
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The supermodels do take it to extremes. In the other hand, it can be quite fun.
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Ah'd thought ye'd goan oaf doon the great pub in the sky, Keith, ye wee silly **** - I wuz really wooried aboot ye, ye ken? Ah'll knoch your friggin' heed oaf your shoulder if ye keep me worrying about ye.
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This is fabulous! Straight to the finalist list.
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Fashion
Think i'm more of a politician than a poet. Need to put out crap and what I feel. I'd like a bit of really Keithness to look at - give us a bit of Keith feeling like Keith...... -
you can always tell a good acrostic when you dont realise that it is one. I wouldnt have known if I hadnt seen that it was in this contest. xx good luck
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Very well executed, Keith. Written with intelligence and style--I like it!
Bill
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