05-03-2021, 03:42 AM
Hi,
Sometimes I post on another poetry site and recently a fellow poet came up with the following prompt:
Write any type of poem about a specific planet only, no moons or astral bodies.
So just in case anyone's missing NaPoMo, I thought I'd post it here. I think, as we're not in NaPoMo anymore, you can take as much time as you want with it. And why not write more than one poem, if you're feeling inspired.
I rattled off this one this afternoon. It's meant to be performed as a rap, with the rhythm cha-cha-CHING. Sorry if the science is a bit rubbish.
Pocket Planet
Oy, stop pickin' on me. Yeh, I'm smallest of all
of the planets that circle our Sun
and I ain't very colourful -- 'Just a grey ball,'
you sniff, Venus; well, thanks for that, hun.
Well, I might not be Jupiter, massive old chap;
I ain't Saturn, with all of his rings,
but I reckon I'd manage if we had a scrap
'cos I got rocks an' ridges an' t'ings.
And besides, what is size if you're all full of gas?
You'd just burst if you ever came near,
an' that burst would leave what? Not a great deal of mass.
I'd be biggest. Me, Merc. Are we clear?
Sometimes I post on another poetry site and recently a fellow poet came up with the following prompt:
Write any type of poem about a specific planet only, no moons or astral bodies.
So just in case anyone's missing NaPoMo, I thought I'd post it here. I think, as we're not in NaPoMo anymore, you can take as much time as you want with it. And why not write more than one poem, if you're feeling inspired.
I rattled off this one this afternoon. It's meant to be performed as a rap, with the rhythm cha-cha-CHING. Sorry if the science is a bit rubbish.
Pocket Planet
Oy, stop pickin' on me. Yeh, I'm smallest of all
of the planets that circle our Sun
and I ain't very colourful -- 'Just a grey ball,'
you sniff, Venus; well, thanks for that, hun.
Well, I might not be Jupiter, massive old chap;
I ain't Saturn, with all of his rings,
but I reckon I'd manage if we had a scrap
'cos I got rocks an' ridges an' t'ings.
And besides, what is size if you're all full of gas?
You'd just burst if you ever came near,
an' that burst would leave what? Not a great deal of mass.
I'd be biggest. Me, Merc. Are we clear?