Election Year Blues
This is nuts!
No ands or buts.
Change is brewing,
voters stewing.
Economic crunch,
most of the bunch
Half-Baked choices,
crazy voices.
Urban jumble
about to crumble.
The Yellow Brick Road
Soon to erode.
A Dastardly Mash
of rich guys’ cash
Make Rocky Roads
of mother lodes.
Cool Britannia
wins the day
as the rest of Earth
Just melts away!
For dVerse Poets Ben & Jerry prompt. The italicized words above are all Ben & Jerry flavors and yes, I admit I sneaked in one non-B&J flavor as well!!! Plus, changed the rhyme scheme in the last stanza. I should run for public office, changing the rules like that!!!
Here are the flavor choices:
Change is Brewing – current
Half-Baked – created in 2000 -still going strong
Urban Bourbon – 2017 -still going strong
Coffee Coffee Buzzbuzzbuzz – current
Wavy Gravy – 1993 – 2001
Urban Jumble – 2000 -2001
Dastardly Mash – 1979 – 1991
Miz Jelena’s Sweet Potato Pie – 1992 – 1993
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – limited edition available July 18 to 25, 2008
Late Night Snack – 2010 – 2014
Imagine Whirled Peace – 2007 – 2013
Sugar Plum – 1989 – 1990
Cool Britannia – 1995 – 1998
Economic Crunch – only in 1987 during the stock market crash
This is Nuts 2001 – 2002
To see other posts that feature Ben & Jerry flavors, go HERE.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Wonderfully done!
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Glad you enjoyed it, Dale.
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🙂
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l loved your use of the prompt. You’ve woven the words nicely into your political poem, giving it a humorous, yet serious tone.
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Thanks, Nitin.
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…and you made it rhyme? Nice one!
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Thanks, Mish.
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Yes.. I made those ice creams fit the dish!!!!
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Hah! I caught that Rocky Roads in there 🙂 Well done! You’ve taken the flavors and made them all relevant to today’s world, even though most of them are “buried” in the Ben and Jerry’s graveyard!
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You must be an expert!!! I love ice cream but for some reason I don’t think I’ve ever tasted more than one or two Ben & Jerry flavors.
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Very clever, Judy!
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Lynn.
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An ice cream to give one indigestion. There were good political flavors and you made good use of them, Judy.
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Thanks, Lisa.
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You’re welcome.
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Amazing the way you worked the flavours.
Much💚love
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Cleverly composed! Enjoyed!! 👏👏
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This poem is incredibly clever … chock full of wisdom (with a few nuts and chips thrown in for good flavor/measure?)
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Thanks, Helen. We can’t get out of the puns even in comments, can we?
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This is absolutely stunning! Wow! ❤❤ I admire the fact that you went the extra mile and incorporated rhyme too 😀
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Thanks, Sanaa. Trying to stave off memory loss my exercising my brain!!
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Brilliant combination!
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I can identify with this. Especially the half-baked choices.
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The friend I am visiting has news on every waking hour.. I have been saturated.
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I was just looking up Ben & Jerry’s flavors this morning and reminiscing (okay, fantasizing) about New York Super Fudge Chunk, a favorite from my college years that’s now retired, I think. Excellent use of the flavors in your poem.
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Thanks…I think I only tasted a couple of the flavors.
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