I was once paid TEN WHOLE POUNDS for a 'pome'. It was this one, which appeared in The Literary Review. They set a weekly theme and the theme was AWE and I thought, oh, gawd. How awful. What a mouthful to say AWE. Then, because it annoyed me, I couldn't leave it and ended up writing something:
Compute Awe
God@pearlygates.com
Designed a World in RAM and ROM
The Programme’s called
Till Kingdom Come
No viruses have crashed it yet
Designed by
TheDevil@Hell.net
He’s tried, with ‘Horsemen,’ ‘Chaos,’ ‘Sin’
Old Nick the Hacker means to win
So far he’s failed; we’re still plugged in
And hear the God-computer hum
The universal sound of ‘
Om’
Creation real and unpretending
In countless files with files still pending
From here to nebulas most far
From single cell to
giant star
From all a life from birth to death
And in-between its every breath
Our highest inspiration
And spirit’s destination
The ROM His Universal Laws
The RAM means; choices, chances, flaws
And Life that cannot be destroyed
Its bits and bytes just re-deployed
In awe we stand, in hope we pray
The Programme runs till Judgement Day.
Katie-Ellen Hazeldine
published in The Literary Review May 2003.