ALL REQUEST MEMES, ALL THE TIME

[odditycollector]

I feel like writing poems, but I don't have any in me at the moment. Weird and frustrating.

So!

Give me a topic, get a poem! Non-fannish stuff is ok, and so is fannish (if I'm familiar with it).

Comments

[wordsatourbacks]

I have SCC on the brain! Tell me about a character or characters of your choice. (I can make a more specific request if you like.)

[odditycollector]

This is not the best of possible worlds
because
I have the math to prove it
graphed over the P axis (where P is Potential, or Population, or Paradox)
and the time axis is a spiral
and my shaking pencil hand dips and dives a line graph
as we’re chased by glowing robot skeletons into
what was a school ground before it became a breeding ground
for things that eat bones
and my calculations are always immaculate

This is not the best of possible worlds
because
you have arrived with a note I have written and addressed to myself
and I have not met you before
and the note says that there is a cave
and in the cave there is a body
and the body is the woman I was meant to love
and that is why I am lonely

This is not the best of possible worlds
because
my mother sings as she sets me to sleep
my pillow surrounded by reaching jungle vines
printed on children’s wallpaper
and she can’t remember the words
trailing off into humming
nonsense
silence
where there should have been secrets
And the cicadas buzz outside my window
like static scratching
proof that we have used this moment before
and the tape is wearing thinner
and the resolution is no longer enough to contain our perfect moments

[wordsatourbacks]

Wowow, hot damn. Tell me who you were thinking of for the first two stanzas? Are they all the same character? (John?)

Also, I would like to rec this somewhere - would you like to title it, or is it cool if I rec it untitled?

[odditycollector]

It is a poem about John Connor!

...I suppose the title is John Connor then?

[wordsatourbacks]

All righty, whoo!

[odditycollector]

Hahaha! Now that I'm looking back at it I see all sorts of things that could be tweaked. Oh well! I'm glad you liked it.

Let me know when/where you rec it? :)

[wordsatourbacks]

You can tweak if you want! I will rec any version you are happy with, at scc_reloaded.

[odditycollector]

Well, I'm not unhappy with it, honestly, for what it is. Mostly I'd swap 'graphed over' for, ah, maybe 'plotted by' so I don't overuse 'graph' for no payoff. But tweaking poems is dangerous- worse than fic! -because they are so mood dependent.

[wordsatourbacks]

I will rec it as is, then! Probably sometime next week - it's in the queue. :)

[odditycollector]

Psst, I ended up putting a slightly fixed version up after all - http://odditycollector.dreamwidth.org/314614.html?#cutid3

[odditycollector]

And I thought it might be scc_reloaded ;)

[caiusmajor]

Amanda Waller! :D

[odditycollector]

Caia, I already did a poem about Amanda Waller I believe is pretty awesome!

[odditycollector]

But you can give me another prompt if you like?

[caiusmajor]

I suppose you did, yes. :)

Comet the Super-Horse?

[odditycollector]

This sounds like a limerick! But I am on strike from limericks. So:

at the furry con
they were uncomfortable
with my human suit

I am really laughing out loud

[philippos42]

:thumbs up:

Re: I am really laughing out loud

[odditycollector]

thanks!

[philippos42]

Gus

[odditycollector]

It might take longer than the other ones, I'm not so much in a poem mood anymore, but it'll happen sometime ;)

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

I totally want a poem about Lyrl and his mom.

Or maybe one about Vril, because Vril + poetry = ???

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Now Vril Dox II is from Colu where they grow their people green
And Vril's been burned but boy he's earned his reputation mean
Much of his fame is from the name he inherited pre-tainted
And so to spite his own birthright he set out to be sainted

Then in his soul he set a goal of peace across the 'verse
But the peace he brings always makes things many magnitudes of worse
See, he viewed the ground that spins around each glowing gaseous ball
And Vril's decree was that he'd be the biggest bastard on it all

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

I've read this to myself (and out loud) several times now, and I think it gets more awesome each time. WTF? This is glorious. I am dying.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Yay!

WTF?
It is, uh, written with apologies to Robert Service! I don't know if there's a name for the form, but if you'd gone to a Canadian elementary school it would be drilled into your skull.

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not sure we ever covered poetry. Except maybe haiku. Obviously I have been deprived.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

How did you avoid having to read "The Cremation of Sam McGee" over and over and over to see just *how* many ways you could trip over the metre?!!

I'm not sure "deprived" is the word ;p

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

I'm not Canadian!

Maybe we would've had time for it if I hadn't spent so much time arguing with the teacher that it was totally okay to start sentences with "And."

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Ah! Okay. I didn't think so, but then I misunderstood your last comment as "Yes, I went to a Canadian elementary school, but we didn't have to memorize this poem."

And I start SO MANY sentences with "and". :) So I'm on your side there. But I suppose it's a moot point now. ;)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Ripples left behind
when a waterbird
takes to the air

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

That is a really, really lovely image. :)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

*blush*
Nature provides ...