FIC Torchwood (poetry) - Endings and Beginnings

[fajrdrako]

Title: Endings and Beginnings
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warning: G
Summary: Perspective on "Everything Changes".
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, characters and subject are property of the BBC.
As I explained with Jack's Pick, fatchickengirl challenged damalan to write a short piece of Torchwood poetry of eight syllables per line. His poem, End of Days, is here. I did the same, with my own 'constraint'and their okay. I think I ought to name this poetic form after them - a 'damirl' or 'fatlan'. Hmm.

Cross-posted to torch_wood.

The first of a series of my own:


Endings and Beginnings

Endings are not like this. New starts
Vindicate themselves with results.
Events fall into patterns, not
Retconned into meaninglessness.
Yesterday's memory fades. Today's
Toughens the spirit. While it rains,
Here at night in Cardiff, Torchwood
Interrogates the dead: a man
Natters about his pregnancy:
Gotta be ready for something.

Change happens, in this insane world.
Hubs tickle new unseen planets,
Aliens live in our sewers.
No one sees the future but Jack,
Glam survivor of distant war,
Enveloping Torchwood with love,
Seeing disasters yet to come.

~ ~ ~

Comments

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Hubs tickle new unseen planets

That line sums up the show.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hmm - yes, it does, doesn't it?

Thanks for commenting!

[damalan.livejournal.com]

I do like that. Cleverly constructed, and a good change of voice from the first verse to the second.

I haven't managed an episode poem, but I did manage one about Owen Harper ().

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed! I'm hoping to do one per day... Except even I might get tired of it by day ten or twelve. Or not. We shall see!

[damalan.livejournal.com]

I think Day One will be a good test! How concise can you be about sex gasses? :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

How concise can you be about sex gasses? :)

"Concise" is never my best thing! But "Day One" was easy. It's just a matter of finding the right theme....

I make that sound easy. Right. It's luck, mostly.

[damalan.livejournal.com]

Can't be about alien sex then; far too few letters! ;)


It's luck, mostly

I find that one or two good lines helps the rest write itself. It's just those one or two lines that really depend on luck!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Can't be about alien sex then; far too few letters!

Pity that. Hmm. Perhaps one of the later poems can focus on Jack's take on alien sex? (Easy to sum up in one word, actually. Yes.)

It's just those one or two lines that really depend on luck!

So very true.

I've posted "Day One" and will wait for tomorrow to post "Ghost Machine".

[damalan.livejournal.com]

Jack's take on alien sex?

Oh that's a poem you ought to post! :)



I've posted "Day One" and will wait for tomorrow to post "Ghost Machine".

Crikey! Steaming along.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I will definitely post Jack's thoughts on alien sex as soon as I can. (I.e., as soon as I manage to write them.)

Steaming along indeed, with more poems written in first draft... Hey, if I don't do it as a string, I'll never get it done at all. And it's fun. I'm still wrestling with the last few lines of the one for "They Keep Killing Suzie". I could kill them for spelling her name with a zed just to make it difficult for me.

(I guess I'm no one to talk - I'm an Elizabeth-with-a-zed. But I'm not trying to make a poem of that!)

[damalan.livejournal.com]

Words for Z...

Get to the end of TKKS, and all I can think about is 'Zips' - but I blame Ianto for that! ;-) And that turned into quite a different fic () ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Get to the end of TKKS, and all I can think about is 'Zips' - but I blame Ianto for that!

Quite right, too.

I'll find a solution... but I don't know what. Yet.

that turned into quite a different fic ;)

I like fics like that.