Tevun-Krus #44 - Sword & Planet

Poetry Slam!

We'll kick this off with a little not-really-poetry, it's angerbda's Science Fictional Nursery Rhyme Corner and this is Row, Row, Row Your Boat... Or is it?! 

Draw, Draw, Draw Your Sword

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Sharply light the beam,
Warily, charily, airily, nay,
Strive to make them scream.

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Ghostly draw the blood,
If you spar with a warrior monk
Burry it with his hood.

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Fiercely through the sneak,
Don't let 'em win or you choused
You are not so weak.

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Ghastly cut the liver,
If the liver makes you sweat
Don't start to quiver

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Strongly hit the core,
If you could kill with a glare
You'll be god of war

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Straight you cut and plough,
Ronin, knight, ninja or guard
That they are your foes

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Slowly down the drake,
Don't stand up and slit the throat
It's not just a snake

Draw, draw, draw your sword
See the red blood run,
Cutting here and slitting there
Oh they're quite all done

Draw, draw, draw your sword
Sharply light the beam,
Warily, charily, airily, nay,
Strive to make them scream

A Lass With a Sword? Oh Yeah... by AngusEcrivain

Swords and planets and angels and demons and strange new worlds with more than four seasons

Through time and space travel to lands afar where big manly men battle monsters

For princesses hands which sounds messed up but it's marriage you apes and the right to bear pups

Interplanetary kids or shit of that nature. Come on keep up, it ain't like I stuttered

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There be monsters has never been truer there's a shortage of heroes we've never been fewer

An' I ain't talkin' Iron Man, Thor or the Hulk I mean heroes of old

When men were men and women were women apparently in need of some kinda' savin'

I don't buy that shit to be fair. I'm all for equal rights an' a lass with a sword? Oh yeah...

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So portals and time loops and fractures in space enable spontaneous travel from place to place

Fucked if that ain't a lottery, movin' like that ain't my cuppa' coffee

I like to travel four wheels or whatever. Don't wanna' ask, "When we gettin' there?" to be told "Fuck, maybe never!"

Yeah that's right, some kinda' structure. What? I mumble, motherfucker?

The Way of the Stars, by angerbda

I can see far away

The edge of the Galaxy,

There is no gateway

For my enemy.

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I stand by my rules,

Follow my destiny,

Cut through the fools

Who try to challenge me.

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I roam the planets,

Fight wicked and traitors,

My sword here to collect

The prize of my honor.

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'tis the way of the stars,

A combat, a quarrel,

There is no pride in wars

When there is no battle.

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