My Poems: Ancillary Quest: Gen

Title: Ancillary Quest
Fandom: Ancillary Justice [Anne Leckie]
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 91
Lines: 14
Poetic Form: Terza rima sonnet & acrostic
For: GYWO Yahtzee - Fives
Prompt:


An empire vast controls the galaxy.
Now, however, is not then. Change’s afoot.
Commencing rogue, the annals shall agree.

In rare confusion, treachery is put.
Long-reaching plans are vengeance served but once.
Long-held beliefs, selfs and ships, melt to soot.

A lone surviving piece of starcraft hunts.
Revenge begins in earnest with a gun.
Yet, so, dark past, cold future now confronts.

Queue struggles, accident, calculation.
Unlikely companions are keys, thorns, shields.
Endgame divides, destroys to perfection.

Severe and severed, the soldier’s quest yields
to quest on, honor-bound, towards fallen’s fields.

My Poem: Major Palgrave's Samsong: Gen

Title: Major Palgrave's Samsong
Fandom: A Caribbean Mystery [Miss Marple - Agatha Christie]
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 375
Poetic Form: Samsong

One day, a fine old major woke to cloudless skies.

One day, a fine old major dressed and shaved with care.
One day a fine old major sniffed the island air.

One day a fine old major breakfasted with glee.
One day a fine old major told a joke (or three).
One day a fine old major rambled by the sea.

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