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odditycollector ([personal profile] odditycollector) wrote2011-04-02 09:33 pm
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ALL REQUEST MEMES, ALL THE TIME

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).
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[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] bluepard.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] bluepard.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm not sure we ever covered poetry. Except maybe haiku. Obviously I have been deprived.

[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] bluepard.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
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. ;)
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