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skonen_blades) wrote2023-06-06 01:53 pm
skonen_blades) wrote2023-06-06 01:53 pm
Entry tags:
- apocalypse,
- day,
- horse,
- race,
- two
may 28th 2023 - a day at the races 02 - champiosa
There's an event called A Day at the Races where poets go to the horse races and they each pick a horse name at random from each of the seven races and then use that name as a prompt for a poem. At the end of the day, we read out the 'winning' poem from each race and then whatever other poems we think turned out pretty good. It's a fun day.
This is poem 02 from race 02 and my horse's name was Champiosa.
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Furiosa’s older sister
Robot legs like a kangaroo
And a sledgehammer battering-ram arm
Furiosa came from a big family
Triumphioria
Conquestilia
Subjugatia
Superiosa
Supremia
Dominatia
Destrucilia
and The Golden Chance
Ten children
Gathered orphans
Turned half machine to protect the Tower Lord
Imperators to guard the new green place
Champiosa ticks at night as her limbs cool
Like an engine on an autumn night
The mechanic repairs the women
after the day’s defense
Successful and alive
The women army
Related not by blood,
but by purpose and apocalypse
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This is poem 02 from race 02 and my horse's name was Champiosa.
-------------------
Furiosa’s older sister
Robot legs like a kangaroo
And a sledgehammer battering-ram arm
Furiosa came from a big family
Triumphioria
Conquestilia
Subjugatia
Superiosa
Supremia
Dominatia
Destrucilia
and The Golden Chance
Ten children
Gathered orphans
Turned half machine to protect the Tower Lord
Imperators to guard the new green place
Champiosa ticks at night as her limbs cool
Like an engine on an autumn night
The mechanic repairs the women
after the day’s defense
Successful and alive
The women army
Related not by blood,
but by purpose and apocalypse
tags