Meet & greet on Lonestar, eh?

[ravells]

Geeks around table
Multipoly dice are rolled.
wife wants a divorce.

 

[Jame]

People writing poems.
No ideas come, my brain seizes.
Why do they do it?

 

[Liam Devlin]

Two-edged Sword

Inscrutable the haiku's purposeful intent;
Thorns among roses.

 

[Jame]

Haikus are Japanese.
Traveller, it is translated into such.
Use verse now, my friends.

 

[trader jim]

beer and hardboiled eggs, the nite before.
i got gassssssss......

 

[Mickazoid]

I'm making deckplans...
drawing my universes.
Wish I could visit!

 

[Jame]

With ships, big and small
Our Travellers go from here to there and onwards
But we wish we could in flesh as well

 

[Plankowner]

I sit at work still
Reading Traveller anew.
They pay me for this?

*Can you end a Haiku with a question?*

 

[Liam Devlin]

*yes you can.*

 

[Liam Devlin]

Survey Scout's Hymn

Wandering through a vista of far planets;
A child amongst giants.

 

[Liam Devlin]

TJ--needs a few more words.

Jame--fewer words.

 

[Liam Devlin]

Death of a Vampire-Ship

Even dead Dragon's fangs can kill again;
Riding on Hecate's Moon.

 

[Liam Devlin]

Behold, A Keeper of the Future

'Watched my daughter draw her first starship today;
No Horizon too small.

 

[Liam Devlin]

For those who dream amid ashes

We pass as planets, never touching, never close;
A rose among thorns.

 

[Liam Devlin]

Laa Kiingaa shen Rishar zur Kamnam,
Laa Kiingaa shen la dara zur Laa;
Laa dara zur Para la’ ala Laa.
Rar Laa Lamazar puriram Kamnam.
1
Laa lak Simug aamar Amara
Ap-in nur shamraa zur Laa Shiramar;
Laa Dara lak puriram Unaru
Mirri nur Ma’aki zur Laa Tu’un
2
Laa lak lim Laa Kiingaa nur irii
Laa ka-ankaa siinug um binerii.
Laa Kiinga kuna Laa puriram
Sagamu argu-shii zur mirri
3
Laa Kiingaa Shurinik shishim nur,
Khu Kireme, khu Iguku zur um!
Laa Shiramar gakku um miirnuur,
Um khar Laa puriram Unaru khiir.
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something I wrote using robjects' excellent Vilani resource. It is an older form of the language's love song.

 

[Liam Devlin]

The Anglic translation (circa 2nd Imperium)

My lover is building a house by the ocean/sea,
My Lover is building a love for me;
My love like a flowing river carries me
To put my beautiful one’s heart by the ocean/sea;

I wish/desire the metal smiths hard iron
To plow the leaves of my flower;
My Love wishes/desires my heart’s Gold
That hides in the hills of my breasts.

I wish/desire to join my lover each night,
I tremble for the touch her.
My Lover calls unto my heart’s
Evening/Dark secrets so hidden

My lover carries a candle to burn,
No copper, No silver for her!
My flower will fall to her digging
Her quest my hearts gold complete

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Fusing elements
Explode as supernova.
We are all star-stuff.

 

[Mickazoid]

I once thought the brain
the most important organ.
The brain hoodwinked me.

 

[atpollard]

The form consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The couplet generally introduced an unexpected sharp thematic or imagistic "turn" called a volta. The usual rhyme scheme was a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. In addition, sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, meaning that there are 10 syllables per line, and that every other syllable is naturally accented.

"The 21st century has seen a strong resurgence of the sonnet form, as there are many sonnets now appearing in print and on the Internet."
Shakespearean sonnet?
Just a thought.

 

[Jame]

They care about format, these people.
Format is their god and goddess and their roll-in-the-hay.
I'd be satisfied with meeting the girl who gets me to stay away.