Verses from Headlines in the Washington Post -- North America has lost 3 billion birds in 50 years -- The biggest Arctic expedition in history is launching for the North Pole -- Google and Facebook’s latest efforts to ‘save’ journalism are sparking debate.

@karinbrulliard

Soon the only tweets around

will be on our cell phones found.

 Feathered friends, you've been betrayed

by the poisons we have sprayed.

We have stole your habitat

and unleashed the feral cat.

I'm uneasy when I think

of your feelings on the brink.

Maybe Hitchcock's film we'll view

as a prophecy come true!

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@sarahkaplan48

On the ice floes near the Pole

scientists are wont to stroll,

looking for a penguin cute

or a brand new arctic newt.

Bundled up in heavy furs,

they are frostbite connoisseurs.

How they'll make reporters tingle

if they unearth old Kris Kringle!

I hope they do not plan to stay,

since all of it will melt away. 

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When I want the front page news,

online's where I oft peruse.

Google and the Facebook gang

give it me with quite a bang.

Newspapers are too old hat,

lecturing like autocrat.

I prefer my facts be lite --

not too true, but with a bite.

@mariecbaca