daibhidc | Poetry Writing Meme

Memed from

john_elliott

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.

And because John did his in verse, I felt obliged to make an attempt likewise. (I didn't manage it in one sitting; I got three of them, then decided I needed sleep.)

The fandoms are Demon Knights, Discworld, Doctor Who, The Muppets and Red Dwarf.

Demon Knights: An expert. He would set the wing
("Follower", Seamus Heaney)
(Obviously, Demon Knights verse has to be first-person by Etrigan.)

Through hellish power could I fly,
But my place is not in the sky.
Yet Al-Jabr, though but a man,
Would fly through Arithmetick's plan.
Across a chasm, deep and wide,
He intends to make canvas glide.
Claiming that, if his proof be sound,
Mankind need never touch the ground.

Discworld: publishingers for Them. I doubt he'll make
("Dream Song 43: 'Oyez, oyez!' The Man Who Did Not Deliver", John Berryman)

There once was a man called deWorde,
Whose opinions were really absurd.
A speciesist twit,
Who plotted a bit,
To see Vetinari interred.

Another young man called deWorde,
Whose attention this plot had incurred,
Wanted these henious crimes,
To be shown in the Times,
And really could not be deterred.

Doctor Who: Than from a disappointing God
("There comes an hour when begging stops", Emily Dickinson)

Forgotten colonists have now regressed,
Though the Doctor has fixed up their machine.
Now worshipped both by psychic, smart-arse Tesh,
And savage, supersitious Sevateem.

Forgetting that they come from Earthly sod,
Their homeworld just a twinkle in the sky.
The message from their disappointing God:
"Invalid operation. Please retry."

Muppets: Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
("Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse", William Shakespeare)

Attach a pair of googly eyes,
To chairs or food, or anything,
And you will see, to your suprise,
The inanimate learn to sing.

It can be anything at all,
There is no limit to this trick.
From cheese, to trees, to tennis balls
But not Amy, the dancing brick.

Red Dwarf: you tell me you did not intrude
("Hero Worship", Robert Service)
(With apologies to William McGonnagal. And everyone reading.)

'Twas in the year of Our Lord Three Million More,
Lister decided promotion was in store,
Realising, were he a winner,
He'd ourank Arnold Rimmer.

Rimmer was perturbed by this, quite frankly,
Disrupting Lister's exam disguised as Kochanski.
Nevertheless, Lister passed, he claimed,
But "Status Quo is God", Holly explained.