Welcome to the first annual MPSC All Hallows’ Eve Poetry Slam. Below are this year’s contestants who stepped up to the mic (a.k.a. virtual refrigerator) and slammed down some magnetic verses:
Ken, “shine on”
Sue, “Siren”
Kat, untitled
Pat, “Shadows”
Kat, untitled
Crow, “wither, ancient spirit”
Uttley, “Sorcerer and ” and untitled
Debbie, “Language”
Sue, “Samhain”
Merril, “Succubus”
writing writing words words words, untitled
If you want to learn how to participate in next Saturday’s challenge click Here.
And since it is Halloween: From a lost episode of Supernatural when Sam and Dean Winchester found themselves investigating a haunted poetry slam in an abandoned building. The ghosts of beatniks all around.
Specks and Fragments 
This was completely awesome – thank you for putting this together!
And now I miss Buffy and Spike…
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thanks to the internet, they’re never too far away. :0
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Niiice roundup. I used way too many words didn’t I, lol.
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no such thing as too many or too few…the aim is to have a good time playing around with words. 🙂
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A nice set of entries for the first time around I thought. I like this idea:)
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glad to hear 🙂
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So have a question for you. To get the words for these really long poems, how many times do you generally have to hit the “get more words” button?
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About two times for three set of words at one time. That is about as much space as the screen would allow and still be able to make head and tails of all the words.
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In the true spirit of haunting, as the midnight hour approaches, my tiles shift, creating a new poem with no more promise of relief than the first:
you may be asleep
winds of bitter black mist
on a repulsive sun
no moonshine that is raw
will save you in shadows
a thousand tongues scream
yes and no
but is this a deathblow dream?
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And will you wake now
from the mysterious night
when black mist rises
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Just in time!
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🙂
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but how to rise the black mist…have we forgotten the spell passed down from the elders?
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“a thousand tongues scream / yes and no” – the terror of the quagmire, the never-ending stalemate.
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Indecision is not an option in the face of the zombie apocalypse.
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sometimes the worse dreams are those who want to run, but you can’t seem to move your feet
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Gritty stuff…very good , thank you.
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I loved this Halloween themed version. The Oracle really got into it, too. 🙂
Thanks for Spike. 🙂 I will have to look up the Supernatural episode. It sounds fun.
I watched the first season or two of the show, but then stopped. Daughters and I thought it was funny that “Sam” was Dean on the Gilmore Girls.
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For the record, there is no actual lost episode 😉 is that where they found Sam?
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not really big on the holiday theme, but this seem to work. who knows, maybe there will be a second annual event. 😉
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just thought i would throw out there, too, that i would stumble on Supernatural during the day time t.v. – trying to figure out what was going on, i read: “The brothers were named after the characters Sal and Dean, from the classic beat novel On The Road, by Jack Kerouac. Kripke didn’t like the idea of having a lead named Sal, so he switched to Sam.” So I probably project some of my beatnik romanticizing onto the show. That Sam was Dean on the Gilmore Girls (a great show by the way) is nice added twist.
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Interesting. I guess part of the whole idea of Supernatural is that they’re on the road–at least the episodes I saw. But I could definitely see them with beatnik ghosts. 😉
We like to discuss how the characters of one show are in another life in another show. There are a lot of fun combinations from The Gilmore Girls. One daughter remarked that she could definitely see “Paris” going on law school and ending up with the people on How to Get Away with Murder.
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i’m not a television historian, but it seemed to me the X-Files was one of the first shows to really use the wink to the audience, willing to break the fourth wall…such as making overt remarks about David Duchovny modelling career previous to his job as Mulder…[number of times Dean and Sam are compared Mulder and Scully]…blending shows and characters is now acceptable and even desired by today’s audience, as in can you spot the in-jokes and obscure references, prompting after-shows and youtube videos pointing such things out.
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