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Jul. 6th, 2016
Poetry meme
Jul. 6th, 2016 11:00 pmFrom Killing Kurare and Lost Spook.
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
I've only written two so far although I do have notes for allfive six stories. I'd made a list of fandoms, lost it, made another list, and then recalled Life on Mars had been on the original list so I added it back on the end. Also, the generator seems to have gotten stuck on Emily Dickinson there. For my BtVS story, I should have written about Owen!
1. Babylon 5 - "Destiny guides the water-pilot, and it is destiny" from John Ashbery's Two Scenes - and how cool a surname is Ashbery!
A fountain. A human mother and child. Singing tenderly, she didn’t seem an implacable enemy although Lennier did question the wisdom placing cradles in the tops of trees.
At first he’d feared coming among the humans, but that had been a mistake. Here he could learn. This was his path.
***
2. BtVS - "I deemed my work was fitly done,"
He’d told himself he couldn’t violate tradition. He’d told himself she wouldn’t be hurt. He hadn’t seen that he’d been too cowardly to tell them to take their Cruciamentum and shove it.
Relieved of duty. Fired. It didn’t matter what the Council thought. He’d been wrong to betray his Slayer.
***
3. Harvey - "It burned Me -- in the Night --" Part Four: Time and Eternity CXXXII by Emily Dickinson
***
4. Leverage - "Let him be quick -- the Viand flits --" Life Poem 42: Time's Lesson by Emily Dickinson
“Parker. Wallet.”
She grinned as she handed it back and then hugged him. Archie’s smile hid his guilt. He’d hurt her as much as anyone. He could have raised Parker as his own, but couldn’t reveal himself to his family. No credit to him that she’d turned out so well.
***
5. The Unwritten - "To ponder little Workmanships" Part Four: Time and Eternity LIII by Emily Dickinson
6. Life on Mars - "And as the Rose appears,"
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
I've only written two so far although I do have notes for all
1. Babylon 5 - "Destiny guides the water-pilot, and it is destiny" from John Ashbery's Two Scenes - and how cool a surname is Ashbery!
A fountain. A human mother and child. Singing tenderly, she didn’t seem an implacable enemy although Lennier did question the wisdom placing cradles in the tops of trees.
At first he’d feared coming among the humans, but that had been a mistake. Here he could learn. This was his path.
***
2. BtVS - "I deemed my work was fitly done,"
He’d told himself he couldn’t violate tradition. He’d told himself she wouldn’t be hurt. He hadn’t seen that he’d been too cowardly to tell them to take their Cruciamentum and shove it.
Relieved of duty. Fired. It didn’t matter what the Council thought. He’d been wrong to betray his Slayer.
***
3. Harvey - "It burned Me -- in the Night --" Part Four: Time and Eternity CXXXII by Emily Dickinson
***
4. Leverage - "Let him be quick -- the Viand flits --" Life Poem 42: Time's Lesson by Emily Dickinson
“Parker. Wallet.”
She grinned as she handed it back and then hugged him. Archie’s smile hid his guilt. He’d hurt her as much as anyone. He could have raised Parker as his own, but couldn’t reveal himself to his family. No credit to him that she’d turned out so well.
***
5. The Unwritten - "To ponder little Workmanships" Part Four: Time and Eternity LIII by Emily Dickinson
6. Life on Mars - "And as the Rose appears,"