Poetry, etc.

[Ancalagon]

Figured I'd start this for original works, published works that folks enjoy, and even song lyrics that could be considered poetry. The world needs more ART in it and the written word, by way of poetry, can be artful / amusing / contemplative / insightful / sarcastic / etc. / etc. / etc....

With that in mind, I found a prose poem I wrote back in my undergrad days that was a pointed barb towards the town / community at the time.

Winnersville Classic

Alcohol and Al Bundy resonate through pre-game ritual serving only to encourage hillbilly goat fucker mentality and attaboy camaraderie between soon to be bravado barking brawlers. The thousand people yell in unison as testament to the mangled and entangled chromosomes that keep them trapped in prisons of redneck blight. Small minds produce smaller thoughts to deal with issues of even less importance only to find the greater part of the world at large could not have any more disinterest. Piety in pigskin, the congregation gathers for the sermon on the grass. Love thy neighbor unless his colors are wrong. Turn the other cheek unless you want it broken. Fear the Lord and key a car. Collective regression beyond the Age of Reason invites violence in mid-season towards the "angels" whose crusade has been won. Only fools go to a football game for something other than fun. Piety and pigskin, compassion and competition, manna and marijuana - down, set, hut!

[grodog]

Figured I'd start this for original works, published works that folks enjoy, and even song lyrics that could be considered poetry. The world needs more ART in it and the written word, by way of poetry, can be artful / amusing / contemplative / insightful / sarcastic / etc. / etc. / etc....

Most of the poetry I write these days hasn’t made it into my web site, but some more “recent” bits are at:

- “The Prophecy of the Six and the Twelve” is on my blog at https://grodog.blogspot.com/2022/11/the ... welve.html and I wrote it for our current campaign, intended to be somewhat opaque and mysterious, as prophecies tend to be
- “saturday at lake geneva” is at https://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/lake_geneva.html and was written at GaryCon 2 in 2010

With that in mind, I found a prose poem I wrote back in my undergrad days that was a pointed barb towards the town / community at the time.

Winnersville Classic

Nice! Gotta love some good and thoughtful invective

Allan.

[Ancalagon]

Figured I'd start this for original works, published works that folks enjoy, and even song lyrics that could be considered poetry. The world needs more ART in it and the written word, by way of poetry, can be artful / amusing / contemplative / insightful / sarcastic / etc. / etc. / etc....

Most of the poetry I write these days hasn’t made it into my web site, but some more “recent” bits are at:

- “The Prophecy of the Six and the Twelve” is on my blog at https://grodog.blogspot.com/2022/11/the ... welve.html and I wrote it for our current campaign, intended to be somewhat opaque and mysterious, as prophecies tend to be
- “saturday at lake geneva” is at https://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/lake_geneva.html and was written at GaryCon 2 in 2010

With that in mind, I found a prose poem I wrote back in my undergrad days that was a pointed barb towards the town / community at the time.

Winnersville Classic

Nice! Gotta love some good and thoughtful invective
Allan.

Emphasis mine.
I'd say you're spot on with somewhat opaque and mysterious with “The Prophecy of the Six and the Twelve”
The “saturday at lake geneva” may have been written in 2010 but it is applicable for pretty much any of the trips I made to Gary Con. Well done!