Poetreeeee 2015

[Katie-Ellen]

Not borin'.

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[Katie-Ellen]

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.

 

[Marc Joan]

Awesome and awe-inspiring (is that a tawtology?), occasionally mawdacious.
Seriously, v. nice. Worth more than a tenner.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Mawdacious? Awwwwwww

 

[Marc Joan]

Mawdacious? Awwwwwww

I was suffering from a pawcity of inspiration. Maybe 'awdacious' would have been a better choice.