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The following poems from the March 2, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "The Arc of the Mental Universe," "Everything That Blooms," "In the Shade of the Mighty Oak," "Let the Children Lead Us," "Autumn's Palette," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," and "A Sense of Weather Changes."


"All Over Everything You Do"
Hefty and Fiddlesticks discuss ethics.
111 lines, Buy It Now = $60

Fiddlesticks waited until
his wife and kids had
gone out to get lunch.

Then he turned to
his partner and said,
"All right, spit it out."



"Do What Your Heart Tells You"
After surviving a nearly-fatal car crash, Princess Diana embarks on a campaign to stop paparazzi.
47 lines, Buy It Now = $20

"Etz Chaim"
Cooperation among Jews, Muslims, and Christians leads to the rebirth of Jerusalem as a shared city. Menachem and Yossele make a pilgrimage to see it.
140 lines, Buy It Now = $70

For many Jews,
"next year in Jerusalem"
had suddenly become
"this year in Jerusalem."



"Every Work of Art Is Protest"
This one isn't about big, sweeping changes but rather the use of protest art to create steady pressure in a positive direction. So they capitalized on momentum of potential and minimized the backlashes that tend to follow progress.
53 lines, Buy It Now = $20

"The Nexus of Choice and Persuasion"
In 1954, the leaders of Kraken watch the Reinsurance Bill crash and burn in America. They decide that they can do better.
128 lines, Buy It Now = $64


These are the poems of The Bear Tunnels, after "The Hobbomak," in series chronological order:

"Hickory Lives"
Emma and Jesse investigate the chamber further, and realize that it is even stranger than they first imagined.
340 lines, Buy It Now = $170

Emma and Jesse spent a week
doing research about what
they had already found.

"Northern Red Oaks live
about five hundred years,"
Emma said. "Bitternut Hickory
only reaches two hundred."



"The Seeds of Civilization"
Using their professional expertise and research, Emma and Jesse work out what it would take to cultivate a civilization.
166 lines, Buy It Now = $83

Emma and Jesse
talked for a long time
about what to change
and how, what they
should bring with them
and what they shouldn't.

Emma found some lists
of books for restarting
civilization after a collapse.



"Beads and Mirrors"
Emma and Jesse make their first foray into colonial Massachusetts.
320 lines, Buy It Now = $320
(Double price for research)

Emma and Jesse crammed
the chamber with supplies,
trade goods, books, and
everything else they needed,
just in case it jammed and
they couldn't keep going
back and forth through it.



"The Eyes of All People"
An encounter in colonial Plymouth urges Emma and Jesse to make new plans.
330 lines, Buy It Now = $165

Jesse came back from
Plymouth all in a lather.

"John Winthrop and his group
have landed," said Jesse. "I've
heard him giving his famous speech
in the marketplace several times,
and the people just eat it up."



"The Pequot War"
Changes already underway result in sudden shifts of expected events.
427 lines, Buy It Now = $214

It was a busy time, because
Jesse and Emma had to prepare
not just for the Pequot War that
they anticipated next year, but also
the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
that they expected to strike in August.



These are the poems from the Strike of the Thunderbirds:

"Ever Evolving, Changing, and Becoming"
The Americas support thriving civilizations.
354 lines, Buy It Now = $177

On the shores of the Foggy Ocean,
the people of Spearhead Island
first began to build a civilization.



"The Labored Works of Man Overthrown"
Europe is plagued by earthquakes and volcanoes.
66 lines, Buy It Now = $66
(Double price for research.)

At the root of the world lay
the Boiling Sea, from which
many troubles emerged.


Poem Claim!

Date: 2021-03-25 11:38 pm (UTC)
hangingbyastitch: A close up photo of a blue rose with dew droplets. (Default)
From: [personal profile] hangingbyastitch
In honor of Passover later this week, I've got "Etz Chaim" and "All Over Everything You Do". I'll do the thing tonight!

Re: Poem Claim!

Date: 2021-03-26 04:03 am (UTC)
hangingbyastitch: A close up photo of a blue rose with dew droplets. (Default)
From: [personal profile] hangingbyastitch
Looks like Wiki has a good article, learned a bit even! Only problem was the usual, referring to God by a transliteration of The Name.

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