STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 16

Thanks to Teg for the photoshopping

 

Full power
Charged
Out into,

Armor[ed], [and]
Ring[ed],

The Ways

Jumped,
Swarms bearing.

Hurr[ied],
Growls move [me] forward
[Into] trouble.

 

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So far this has been the most difficult page to turn into something. There’s just too much of of the specifics of Starship Troopers in here to make a good space opera poem out of. Though a poem about super models or drug addicts would be easy enough with some of these words. The ‘full power’ in the first line immediately made me think of Picard’s ‘Engage’ and Kirk’s ‘Ahead’ but getting the words to take those first two anywhere were hard to come by. I ended up with oblique references to a heavily armored ship traversing the void pursued by some unknown, perhaps supernatural, menace.

STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 15

Thanks to Teg for the photoshopping

I guess I(‘)m
Empty, alone
Stopped

Far out
In the light
Behind the stars

As far away…

The last One
Sent careless(ly)
Over
Lone, probably insane, astronuat sent out into the abysses between the stars. Slowly his mind begins to eat itself.  He trusts no one, not even himself
Lone, probably insane, astronuat sent out into the abysses between the stars. Slowly his mind begins to eat itself.
He trusts no one, not even himself

STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 14

Thanks to Teg for the photoshopping

 

Hear, blink, pick
Up I never landed.

 

With red around
The Others

 

At least
I could quit.
Concentrate on
Anywhere.

 

Start rampaging,
Without fear,
Hitting at doubt.

 

Rattled, and
Half paralyzed.

 

Yeah, I'm not really sure what happened here... Though it certainly fits the source material.
Yeah, I’m not really sure what happened here… Though it certainly fits the source material.

STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 13

Thanks to Teg for the image!

 

Daylight
Bare, queasy
Seconds
Hit.

 

They
Tangle,
Scatter,
Jump,

 

I was
Trying
To commit…

 

Maybe

 

Trying to
Something…

 

Whatever it
Was.
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