Poetry Meme
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thisbluespiritI was in exactly the sort of in between mood of not being quite up to any of my usual things and wanting to write something, that calls for the Poetry Meme - and I actually managed to do it this time! \o/ (I had two goes at it last year and only did half the prompts each.)
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 them 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), 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.
1. Blake's 7 - And in his mistress' flame, playing like a fly (Ben Jonson - Hourglass)
Blake pursues one true obsession: Freedom—what he calls freedom. The trouble is, Blake has his followers courting the same fatal mistress. Avon doesn't believe it counts as freedom if one is dead. He should leave. He doesn't. What flame draws him on, he won't own. But it burns.
2. Craddock & Co - And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command (Shelley - Ozymandias)
"Fools! You'll never get out alive!" The elderly undertaker slammed the crypt door shut on Lucy and Uncle Charles. "That'll teach you!"
They exchanged a look.
"Never mind that villain, Uncle," Lucy said. "I've an idea brewing..."
"By this point, Lucy, I would be shocked if you did not."
3. Doctor Who - How did those prospects give my soul delight (Phyllis Wheatley - To SM)
The Doctor paused, one hand on the console, letting the others leave the ship first. He chuckled softly. What started as a desperate escape had somewhere turned to delight. Each new landing - and Susan, these humans, their reactions to alien vistas—a thrill. Where this time, I wonder?
4. Sapphire & Steel - How drowsily it crew. (Coleridge - Christabel)
Time slows, and slows again. Every hand on every clock in the entire great house ticks impossibly weighted with it. Even the rooster in the home farm sounds like it's crowing under water.
"It's getting worse," says Sapphire.
Steel is at her side.
Time won't win.
Not here.
(Not yet.)
5. The Winslow Boy - Worked busily a day, and there she stands (Browning My Last Duchess)
She hadn't been in the gallery. He would have seen her. Nevertheless, Sir Robert turns out of the Commons, into the corridor, and suddenly she's there, brought up short in front of him.
"Miss Winslow."
"Have I missed the debate?"
He smiles. The debate, he hopes, is only now begun.
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 them 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), 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.
1. Blake's 7 - And in his mistress' flame, playing like a fly (Ben Jonson - Hourglass)
Blake pursues one true obsession: Freedom—what he calls freedom. The trouble is, Blake has his followers courting the same fatal mistress. Avon doesn't believe it counts as freedom if one is dead. He should leave. He doesn't. What flame draws him on, he won't own. But it burns.
2. Craddock & Co - And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command (Shelley - Ozymandias)
"Fools! You'll never get out alive!" The elderly undertaker slammed the crypt door shut on Lucy and Uncle Charles. "That'll teach you!"
They exchanged a look.
"Never mind that villain, Uncle," Lucy said. "I've an idea brewing..."
"By this point, Lucy, I would be shocked if you did not."
3. Doctor Who - How did those prospects give my soul delight (Phyllis Wheatley - To SM)
The Doctor paused, one hand on the console, letting the others leave the ship first. He chuckled softly. What started as a desperate escape had somewhere turned to delight. Each new landing - and Susan, these humans, their reactions to alien vistas—a thrill. Where this time, I wonder?
4. Sapphire & Steel - How drowsily it crew. (Coleridge - Christabel)
Time slows, and slows again. Every hand on every clock in the entire great house ticks impossibly weighted with it. Even the rooster in the home farm sounds like it's crowing under water.
"It's getting worse," says Sapphire.
Steel is at her side.
Time won't win.
Not here.
(Not yet.)
5. The Winslow Boy - Worked busily a day, and there she stands (Browning My Last Duchess)
She hadn't been in the gallery. He would have seen her. Nevertheless, Sir Robert turns out of the Commons, into the corridor, and suddenly she's there, brought up short in front of him.
"Miss Winslow."
"Have I missed the debate?"
He smiles. The debate, he hopes, is only now begun.
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Date: 26 Feb 2025 08:34 pm (UTC)