ROUND ONE: 7-funk vs. 10-sanitize

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The Poets’ Challenge: Each poet is assigned a single word based on their bracket seed, ranging from 1 (intuitive) to 16 (seemingly impossible). Poets must write a kid-appropriate poem using the prompted word in under 36 hours. Once both final poems have been received, they will be pasted into the body of this post, and then the reader poll will be open for voting.

Voter Instructions: Read each poem as many times as you’d like. Then use the poll to express your preference. Votes are counted in real time and cannot be changed once entered. As a guideline for voting, consider the criteria on which the contestants on the cooking show “Chopped” are evaluated: presentation, taste, and creativity. Translated roughly into poetry terms, presentation might include technical aspects such as meter, rhyme, form/shape, etc.; taste might be the net effect — did the poem move you to laugh, cry, think, kill, etc.; and creativity might include the poet’s approach toward a certain subject, image evocation, clever wordplay, etc.

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Here are the poems:

7-funk
So you think ewes can dance?
by _camer0n

All my sheep just love dancing to funk
Groovy flock happy bustin’ the moves
But after one track, they would stop and chew cud
Coz they can’t spin the records with hooves
 
So I gave them a jukebox loaded with funk
Its big buttons provided the answer
Then they lined up some tracks and got on down
To competing to be the best dancer

vs.

10-sanitize
Flu (Ah-ah-ah-choo!) Season
by Kristy Dempsey
 
The flu is rampant. Don’t get sick.
Wash your hands and wash them quick.
Eliminate this plague of doom.
Eradicate it from your room!
Expunge the plague and ban the bugs.
Bleach the floor and clean the rugs!
Germs are bent on your demise.
Wash your hands and sanitize!

VOTE NOW!

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