{"id":93242,"date":"2012-07-21T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/93242\/poems-interactive-roller-rampage\/"},"modified":"2012-07-21T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T03:50:12","slug":"poems-interactive-roller-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/93242\/poems-interactive-roller-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: Interactive and Roller Rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>These were written to the image below, which is featured this week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/93239\/simple-sunday-classical\/#comment-276653\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge<\/a>. \u00a0My apologies for the lack of centering, the blog controls just would not work correctly!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=Sculpture.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/Sculpture.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sculpture\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\"><strong>Interactive<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"4\">Billy&#8217;s mommy hated spurious.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">Homeschooled Billy was so curious.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">She took Billy to the museum<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">so real artworks he could see &#8217;em.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"4\">Classical scupture caught his eye.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">One looked like mommy, Bill said &#8220;Hi!&#8221;<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">A torso made him think of dad<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">the muscleman; well just a tad.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"4\">Billy wondered &#8220;how did they do it?&#8221;<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">Plastocene, or did they glue it?<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">To show that he had been inspired,<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">though he knew naught of clay kiln fired,<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">he cut with care construction paper,<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">using crayons as his draper;<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">taped his creation to display case<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">so art patrons could see <\/font><em>his<\/em><font size=\"4\"> face!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"4\">Copyright July 21st 2012 RGD<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"6\">RUNAWAY ROLLER<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>They were made of sturdy stone.<br \/>\nHe was only flesh and bone.<br \/>\nWhen steamroller&#8217;s brakes went out,<br \/>\nthere was no time to even shout.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Nor any time to beg one&#8217;s pardon<br \/>\nwhen roller rammed through sculpture garden.<br \/>\nHeads and torsos broke apart,<br \/>\nrolling into Auto Mart.<br \/>\nMr. Bill was caught off guard<br \/>\nand squashed quite flat near Scotland Yard.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>To commemorate some way<br \/>\nGreat Steamroller Rampage Day,<br \/>\ngarden owner paid to fill<br \/>\ndisplay with ruins, and Mr. Bill.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font size=\"4\">Copyright July 21st 2012 RGD<\/font><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were written to the image below, which is featured this week on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. \u00a0My apologies for the lack of centering, the blog controls just would not work correctly! Interactive Billy&#8217;s mommy hated spurious. Homeschooled Billy was so curious. She took Billy to the museum so real artworks he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}