LPiA-24 Nov. 28

[Tiger the Lion]

Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 28
Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a New Reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for the month of November. (or one, or six, or fifteen) Prompts may be revisited at any time. All members are welcome.

Topic : Write a poem using all 26 letters of the alphabet. 
Form : Any
Line requirements: 8 or more

Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish. 

Questions?

[CRNDLSM]

Be sure to move it quickly.
As much as I could say the
Little things that make me jump
Close my eyes and count to five
And pretend that there's wizards 
On the windowsill boxing

Aren't actually boxing
But they are in fact quickly

Nope, not gonna work

[carahmellow]

Self Care Paradox

I need more sun,
said the quiet plant,
begging with its slant,
reaching wistfully
for the light,
to inspire a transplant.

Oh, you zany little sprout,
that is such a giant ask.
you already have the light you seek;
just learn to better bask.



This was hard... I had to include the title.

[dukealien]

A Hopeful History


Azazel, by then convinced
by disagreements with his lord
did coxswain Charon’s boat back over
dawnless Styx to build instead
of ever-ruining Man’s hopes
fulfilling Heraclitus’ tag.
Goat-horned, he got to work and made
has-beens of coal and water power
irradiating thorium
in energetic quantum jumps
that kept great dynamos in spin
long after sun and wind had quit
nuclear miracle, death’s gift.

I had way too much fun with this.

[RiverNotch]

The letters of our ancestors
began with F.

Fortune, it meant,
"a comfort to every man".

Then U for the auroch,
the cow's savage Uncle,

and Th, for Thorns, was once a single symbol,
until we invented shears.

O meant Orifice,
"the beginning of all speech",

while R meant Riding,
where something else begins.

C once meant torch, but better now to say
its light has spread: we have a Conflagration.

G meant Gifts -- its quick successor, W,
meant a splendid Windfall

unknowingly the Herald
of Need, of Ice.

J was a Jackpot for those in the country;
for those in the city, it meant Jellied-eels.

Y meant Yew-wood
for fashioning bows.

P meant Pear-wood
for fashioning lutes.

Happily, even the ancients had to struggle
seeking something that signified X

(they went with elk-sedge, another prickly plant)
although they lacked entirely Q and Z.

S meant the Sun, while T was a kind of Trick
being, in Truth, a proper name.

B was for Birch. E was for Equines,
back then Man's best friend,

and L was for Lakes,
feared as much as the sea.

Ng, once again just one symbol,
once again was another

proper name: Ing, or Ingvi-Freya,
"the first among the Danes".

Here, E was doubled
through the Estate.

The wood of the Ash birthed spears,
that of the Oak birthed ships,

and both often led to the Grave,
to the end of all one's Days.

Finally, one more letter was doubled:
here again was the bow, with its Yeoman taking down

a passion-bearing king,
an ancient way of writing.