What I am doing for NaPo this year is writing sonnets incorporating weird suggestions, the weirder the better. The first two were "Chicken poo" and "A shark with a laser"
1. Chicken Poo
Forgotten turnips which began to spoil,
Peelings, scraps browned but not yet rot,
tender sprouts finally free of soil
Crawlers, wrigglers wishing they were not.
Discarded waste, he thought, would strangely fit.
He missed the day at school when teenage boys
became invincible. Chicken shit?
They'll see. (Expanding earplugs for the noise)
What is to them a green and viscous goo
to scrape off steelcapped boots is naturally
a flicker of the hell they put him through,
Née NH4NO3.
The earth below ignites, he thinks, those fools,
they should have spent the time on biofuels.
2. A Shark with A Laser
I remember waking, with a woolly head.
It soon wore off, I thrashed my tail in pain
and all about my family was dead,
I, their stricken murderer, remain.
There is no sleep, no resting else I drown,
a dream adrift would lay waste to this reef
in seconds. This inferno in my crown
unquenched by sea, nor tears can quench my grief.
And teeth, and teeth, and teeth can not remove
the laser nor gnaw off what it has done,
and if I could what then would it prove?
They'll only sew one to another's son.
No life is without hope, no fate so dark
as the lot of a laser wielding shark.
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