Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

This weekend is the March 2014 Crowdfunding Creative Jam.  Visit it on Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, where you can leave or claim prompts.  The theme is "far future."  


What I Have Written:

"Finding the Lotus Flower" -- 134 lines, $67
From a prompt about a white man, I got the free-verse poem "Finding the Lotus Flower." The crew of the Omphalos wind up on a planet without a chance to prepare for it, and they don't match the local population. But the real challenge comes from a different direction. 

When the crew of the Omphalos
first made their way to Padma,
they found the planet entirely by accident
and they were unprepared for its particulars.

They came by way of Glasto,
an out-of-the-way world whose erratic gate
sent them in an unanticipated direction.

"This Cleansing Spring" -- 68 lines, $34
The line about sufficiently advanced technology inspired the free-verse poem "This Cleansing Spring." It's about spring cleaning on an alien planet, and the useful things that a starship can and can't do.  

It is late spring now;
your crops are planted
and the little pink points
have opened up into leaflets
that look like tiny hands,
all waving at you from the fields.

"The Stars So Far and Near" -- this session's freebie, about the changes made by instantaneous travel.


From My Prompts:

"Forgotten Hills of Earth" by alexconall 
Today's freebie from Alex is a beautiful diaspora piece about humans struggling to settle an alien planet that was supposed to be uninhabited by has a race of its own.