Speculative Verse???

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

So, I just got a review copy of The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night: an anthology of speculative verse plopped on my desk along with ANOTHER Johnny Cash tribute alb (they're unrelated, as far as I can tell).
Sci-Fi Poetry?
Is this the new thing or just the first step the Society for Creative Anachronism's 12-point plan for taking over.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i have been wondering why, aside from dennis lees un, i had not seen a volume of specultive poetry. this makes me excited.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you seen the book of Frank Herbert's "poetry" which is really just exerpts from Dune that have been put into verse form?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

no, but it sounds dire.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ode to a Martian Manhunter
by H. Mann

So green you are
that I am green with envy
When you first appeared--Detective Comics #225--
you were weird. Spooky even.
Mysterious spaceman solving hardboiled crimes.
Noir? Vert.

Then, somehow, someway,
you were debunked, declawed.
You became little more than a bipedal Professor X
to the worst JLA evah.

Then you were further degenerated
as straightman to Blue Beetle Bailey.

Martian Manhunter, you were once
the perfect mix of Superman power
and Batman brooding.
I wish you still you were.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Twinkle twinkle little Earth,
How I wonder what you're worth
- Leonard Nimoy

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Twitter, twitter little bird,
Isn't eating crumbs absurd?
Won't you try a ham on rye,
Or a piece of chrry pie?
But if those crumbs are all you want,
Don't come to my restaurant!
- Sesame Street

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 19 June 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Where is my silver suit?
Where is my dinner pill?
Where is my portable jetpack
That would set my arse on fire?
Where is my two week vacation on the moon?
Where is faster than light travel?
Where is me meeting, falling in love and
marrying a alien life form with pseudopods and
a semipermeable membrane?
Actually, she dumped me last week.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Tangerines

If tangerines were purple,
I don't reckon they'd be that popular,
But then, if hedges grew from people's ears,
Then topiary would be a booming business.
If tangerines smelt of petrol,
Would they still be round?
How many of those bad-boys could you get to the pound?
If tangerines tasted like stinging nettles,
You'd be a loon to eat them,
It would be like putting spikes through your head.
Imagine if tangerines exploded when you touched them
Christmas wouldn't be so much fun, huh!
Imagine no possessions, it's easy if you try
Just millions of tangerines, falling from the sky
So thank God tangerines aren't purple,
I know for sure that I wouldn't eat them,
But then, if hedges grew from people's ears,
We'd all look really weird.

Johannes Baader

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.