Poetry?

[PaulMc]

Will you also be considering poetry for the new eZine, or will you be sticking to prose?

I know. Someone is probably thinking, "Poetry with ray-guns?" but it could work. Last night I was tinkering with a poem about an airship battle over an alien planet. (still a work-in-progess, obviously)
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-- Paul McNamee

[PaulMc]

Guidelines

Poetry

We are open to the scenario where the odd piece of space opera poetry crosses our virtual desks, wows us, and demands to be published. Short of that, we don’t expect to publish much poetry. Perhaps that’s not strong enough. Pigs will fly before we publish poetry.

Of course, this being a sci-fi rag, anything is possible, and we haven’t automatically ruled poetry out. Just understand that it will be very difficult, and your work will have to wow us, change the world, and bring about world peace to even be considered. It is possible, just not remotely likely, so don’t take it personally if we don’t pick it up.

OKay. I get it. No poetry.
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-- Paul McNamee

[Loriendil]

Maybe if you write a poem with space ships, ray guns, and flying pigs?
*blinks innocently*
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Overlord, Ray Gun Revival
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[Phy]

Au contraire - we'll publish any poetry that's life-changing, universe-rending, brilliance personified. Simple.
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[RLCopple]

[Phy]

That's.... really something, Rick.
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[Bill Snodgrass]

Oooo! Let me try. I learned that one need only insert random line returns and capital letters, leaving out meaningful punctuation, to get poerty. So...

Here goes:

Space
The final frontier
We are told.

But what of that beyond space?
Beyond time?
Beyond all?

So? Good eh?

[PaulMc]

I was thinking more like...

Twin suns setting set ablaze the sky
Mighty airships flew to engage
Violent violet beams etched the black night
As fierce as gods of war in their rage

....
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-- Paul McNamee

[Marcielynnt]

[Loriendil]

[RLCopple]

[lord-id]

[lord-id]

[SeanTMStiennon]

Please...make it stop.
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[Phy]

Here's the best S/O poetry I can come up with on the spur of the moment: