NaPM 25 April 2022

[RiverNotch]

Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.

Topic: I'm gonna kill two birds with one stone here: write a science fiction version of a fairy tale!

Form: Alliterative verse

Line Requirement: At least 6

[CRNDLSM]

Chased by Algon assassins,
Gunger met his brother Tam.
Their fortress of Liganthin
crumbled like on planet Quamb
so the brothers fled to Chlints,
reuniting with their fam
to trap the Algonians
huffing and puffing back to the damned.

[TranquillityBase]

On the perilous planet Oberon
the women, all descended from Venus,
rule the myriad mountains of  the Castalian Range
whose caverns conceal the mutated males
every one a misshapen monster.
On the nights when the mystic moon of Muravia 
gives light for loathsome longings
their detachable genuflecting genitalia on locust wings
pour forth from the cave mouths 
single minded furies flying above the heights
in search of consensual congress.
The night is filled with the the buzz 
of the consternated cocks
amid the frantic rustle of flowering robes 
and chants from the mountaintops.
Come morning the exhausted penises
litter the valleys where godlike Geryon
collects them for refurbishment into balloons
he can inflate and let fly in a final good-bye
to create an empyrean paean 
for the night’s procreative flights.

[Semicircle]

The big red spot;
home to the gathering of wizards,
whom were driven from earth
and it's prejudices.

Veiled in secracy by the stormy cloak
of the ever raging storm
they are able to correct
cosmotic irregularities,
silently protecting reality
from universal tears.

A cataclysm approaches.
The wizards debate
whether or not they protect
the people of earth;
mercy, comes at a high price.

[RiverNotch]

maybe this is the toughest prompt so far? xD

[Mark A Becker]

Lunch at Grandma's

Rebellious red riding hood strayed off the path,
and wandered where good girls don’t go.
There she met a young stranger who offered
to help carry her load, all the way
to her grandmother’s home. 

Without a word, she shyly demurred, and hurried
along on her way. The charming young stranger
was a subtle shape shifter, and got to her grandmother’s
first. He tied up the old lady, assuming her body,
and like a wolf, he laid lying in wait. 

Yet red riding hood had a good trick
of her own- one he could never have known:
she, too, could shape shift, and she became
a black bear, then strangled that stranger,
and ate him right down to the bone.

[dukealien]

Night Light (Three Little Planets)


Ages ago a big, bad bunch
looking for trouble
spotted a solar system–
three plausible, possible planets.

Big, bad band
invaded the innermost first.
Its sleepy people lived
in lukewarm lagoons until
big-bads colonized its clouds
eventually ovenizing them
in minimal millennia.

Ignoring icy second choice,
bad bunch branched
to outer, smaller one
green, growing, graced
with water-carrying canals.
Bad boys chemically combined
canals, clouds, rocks
resulting in universal red rust...
poor planet!

Back bad boys bent
their theater of threat to
middle world now mostly melted,
casing clement climate
and as they learned too late
(while massing on its moon)
armed with 26,118 a-bombs
seeking suitable scenarios for use.

So second plausible planet
(third from sun)
now rejoices in
delightful, long-desired disarmament
and a planetary night-light.

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maybe this is the toughest prompt so far? xD

I'd say so.  My second attempt, none too good, but the first was worse.

[RiverNotch]

And in his closet, she caught not the corpses
that filled her fancy. Loose limbs languished
with wires worming where veins would weave
while what meat the skin did not mask
was pellucid as plastic. Faces, their fairness faded,
were lined up on a shelf, loose from their skulls.
Her blue-bearded benedict was indeed an inventor
but now she feared she was his furthest failure.

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This prompt at least exercised my thesaurus xD