Seeking Cosponsors

alatefeline is seeking cosponsors for "Spotted Dick."  FULLY FUNDED!

Broadcasting on general address:

I can do a third of the price total. A quarter would be better. Are
there one or two (or more) people out there who'd like to team up?

I mean, c'mon, KITTY! And it's Maryam, Maryam is awesome, I miss her.

The poem costs $119, so 1/4 would be $29.75 and 1/3 would be ~$39.67.

Poem: "Brothers, Equals"

This poem was inspired by a prompt from LJ user Pocketnaomi. It has been sponsored by LJ user Lone_cat. It belongs to the Danso and Family thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.


"Brothers, Equals"
-- Alcaic stanzas


You cannot name a people as ignorant
Who turn your language, basketlike, whispering,
Back running over self and substance:
Listen and learn or else fall to failure.

O Best Beloved, African history
Tells tales that Europe, envying, echoing,
Brings home to ponder weighty meanings nightly:
Honor us, join with us, brothers, equals.

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NOTES:

This is a poem by  Danso, rather than about him.  One of his pet peeves is people who talk down to him because of his race, his background, and whatnot.  There's a saying, "No man can call you ignorant if you can beat him in a game of chess."  Every culture has things it respects as signs of sophistication; in America, chess is one and poetry is another.  If you can write poetry in Greek forms, you have disproven the argument that you are uneducated or unintelligent.

Alcaic stanza is a Greek form of poetry which relies on syllables.  It doesn't fit well with English, but I've made a capable effort here.

The Just-So Stories by Rudyard Kipling relate fables about why the animals are the way they are.  "The Elephant's Child" is one that explicitly mentions Africa.  "O Best Beloved" is a phrase from there.

African history is the wellspring of humanity, so pay your respects.

Martian Poetry

I have often written about the ordinary through alien eyes, but I don't think I've done it quite like this.  Read about the Martian Poetry Project and "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home." 

Read "A Letter to a Young Fan from a Super Hurrah" by Siliconshaman

siliconshaman has posted "Demifiction: A Letter to a Young Fan from a Super Hurrah."  Ashley writes back to her first fan Kaytee.  Aww!  :D

Poem: "Tales Out of School"

This poem came out of the September 6, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from librarygeek, alatefeline, rix_scaedu, and cflute. It has been sponsored by librarygeek. This poem belongs to the Berettaflies thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows the demifiction "Letter to a Super Hurrah" by alatefeline and "A Letter to a Young Fan from a Super Hurrah" by siliconshaman so read those first to understand the character dynamics.

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Poem: "Spotted Dick"

This poem came out of the September 6, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from kelkyag. It has been sponsored by alatefeline, technoshaman, fyreharper, and ng_moonmoth. This poem belongs to The Steamsmith series.

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