Poetry Fishbowl Open!

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED.  Thank you all for your enthusiasm.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open!  Today's theme is "military science fiction."  I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm

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[aldersprig]

What does a fox-hole become in a space battle? Front-line combat? Infantry? Civilians caught in the crossfire?

War mechanized to the point where it is no longer about human casualty at all - The War the Robots Fought.

If war pleases the gods, than what gods are pleased by war in the skies?

The territory that got tired of being fought over - so it moved.

Mascots in a space war.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

The prompt about a territory tired of being fought over led to the free-verse poem "Disembattled." Space battles, infantry battles, a very pissed-off planet, and creative interpretation of what constitutes collateral damage.

78 lines, Buy It Now = $39

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[ysabetwordsmith]

From your prompt about war in the skies, I got the poem "The Hungry Gods," which I'm posting as today's second freebie.

[siege]

One of the first uses of computers was, of course, war: things like artillery and missile trajectories, mostly, as the math regarding continuous curves can be complex, tedious, and time-consuming. Of course that expanded, particularly with the advent of the database and communications protocols

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[ysabetwordsmith]

From your prompt about lost soldiers came the Monster House poem "Widow's Walk." The son of the little old lady ghost returns, but it's not exactly the happy reunion that might have been wished for.

54 lines, Buy It Now = $20

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[ysabetwordsmith]

"tanegashima" -- 3 lines, $5 (Lacquerware)
Edopunk guns have something better than sights. This is a haiku.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I combined the space concerns with futuristic armor to get the poem "ARG." This poem is written in rhymed, metered sestets and it describes the qualities of armor needed for space battles.

24 lines, Buy It Now = $10

[ellenmillion]

Game Workshop's trademark of 'Space Marines' and their effort to apply it to fiction.

What's the futuristic equivalent of origami?

time dilation as a factor in battles/campaigns

An unexpected weapon

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[ysabetwordsmith]

The prompts about an unexpected weapon and origami remaining origami inspired my poem "full moon in a western sky." A scientists folds spacetime as a defense against enemy attack. This poem is written in haiku verses.

27 lines, Buy It Now = $15

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[ysabetwordsmith]

"One Acquainted with the Night" -- 83 lines, $41.50
An explorer relates her experiences of an alien world to the guards who keep her safe while she analyzes all the input.

[marina_bonomi]

>What's the futuristic equivalent of origami? >

Origami, of course ;-), maybe self-folding though http://gizmodo.com/5902004/this-inkjet-prints-self+folding-origami

Master Mo and his disciples, or how the followers and proponents of universal love were also the best siege engineers in acient China, always giving their services to cities and states under attack by aggressive neighbours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohism

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[ysabetwordsmith]

The prompts about an unexpected weapon and origami remaining origami inspired my poem "full moon in a western sky." A scientists folds spacetime as a defense against enemy attack. This poem is written in haiku verses.

27 lines, Buy It Now = $15