Contest #11 Close Encounters Talk Show

Although this last competition was short on numbers of entries, thanks to Sir Tom and Glenburne, it certainly shone with quality and wit. So to Sir Tom and Glenny we hereby award you with the highest recognition possible: the Lion's Roar of Approval!
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Also as part of your contest award, Copperfox would like to sonnetize you in new sonnets of his creation. Please PM him with a list of ideas you would like him to work into your personal sonnet at your earliest convenience and then look for its debut in his Sonnet Thread.

Congratulations to two extremely deserving entrants! Thank you for your amusing and inspired talk show pieces :) And kudos to you Copperfox, not only for your contribution to the awards, but for your brilliant sample Talk Show, and for your contest idea as well. Onward and Upward!
 
The topics have now been given to me. The finished poems will appear first in my Sonnets thread, and afterwards be posted here as well.
 
Here we go!

For Sir Tom:
On Facing A Hard Future


They say that bad is good, that truth is hate,
That theft is justice, and et cetera.
The lumpen-proletariat of late
Has made a dungheap of America.

Which way is forward? This was not made clear.
At least we Christians know which way is down,
And can avoid it. Things will be severe,
But that comes with our service to the Crown.

Our King did not give us free telephones;
He gave us free salvation, and He asks
That while we live as mortal flesh and bones,
We do not chicken out on heavy tasks.

Our very faith some treat as contraband;
But we'll endure, and having done all, stand.



For Glenburne:
A Contemplation Of Cheese


In Howard Pyle's account of Robin Hood,
If deer in Sherwood Forest got away,
Cheese was his other choice of protein food,
Though where he got it from, I couldn't say.

I read the scene where Robin took a sword
And cut some cheese in quarters -- also bread.
In hard times, Merry Men could still afford
These foods, while keeping down their overhead.

The same for us! With taxes high again,
We look for low-cost foods to pass our lips.
We won't be rescued by the Merry Men,
But we can melt cheese over nacho chips.

Amid societal uncertainties,
We'll hope and pray that no one moves our cheese!
 
I agree -- and especially loved the references to Howard Pyle's Robin Hood in your paean to daCheese. Again, Congratulations to Sir Tom and Glenburne!
 
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