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Throw Down the Gauntlet by =Teague-Drydan:iconTeague-Drydan:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Horror & Macabre > Fixed


All the zombies in me
haunt and eat my brains.
Soon there'll be nothing left
but skin and my remains.

They haunt and eat my brains,
as ghastly as that sounds,
but skin and all my remains...
I think I'd druther drown.

As ghastly as that sounds,
I am not for dinner!
I think I'd rather drown
than be made so sickly thinner.

I am not for dinner,
no matter what Master said.
Made so sickly thinner
the zombies that eat my head.

No matter what Master said
I am not to eat!
The zombies that head my head
are in for a nasty treat.

I am not to eat!
there will be nothing left.
In for a nasty treat
those zombies in my head.
©2009 =Teague-Drydan
:iconteague-drydan:

Author's Comments

Written, as requested, for :icongneralshock06:. My apologies for taking so long to write a Zombie poem for you.

Please note: I did reference Thomas Lux's "All The Slaves" for this.

This is written using the pantoum form. It repeats as follows:
Stanza 1: 1 2 3 4
Stanza 2: 2 5 4 6
Stanza 3: 5 7 6 8
Stanza 4: 7 9 8 10 ... for as many stanzas as you want.
Stanza 5: X 3 X 1

Rhyming is optional. That would look like:
Stanza 1: A1 B1 A2 B2
Stanza 2: B1 C1 B2 C2
Stanza 3: C1 D1 C2 D2
Stanza 4: D1 E1 D2 E2 ... for as many stanzas as you want.
Stanza 5: X1 A2 X2 A1

It's really fun.

Written as an in-class activity for my ENGL 352 Forms of Poetry Class.

Comments


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:icongneralshock06:
Mood: Joy ~gneralshock06 Mar 2, 2009, 3:48:12 PM
it appear that the gauntlet has been successfully hoisted and used to bitch-slap down the challenge, uber poem, it was well worth the wait

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"boredom is the father of all bad ideas and undertaker to the fools who attempt the worst of them" gneralshock06 19:32 26/02/09
:iconteague-drydan:
=Teague-Drydan Mar 2, 2009, 3:49:23 PM
:D I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was pure fun to write...think I surprised my prof as well ^^

Thank you for the favorite.

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Many thanks to =WeavingMagic for the icon! I lurves it. :love:
:icongneralshock06:
~gneralshock06 Mar 2, 2009, 3:58:42 PM
see, for the best ideas seek only the advice of the mad and the damned

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"boredom is the father of all bad ideas and undertaker to the fools who attempt the worst of them" gneralshock06 19:32 26/02/09
:iconteague-drydan:
=Teague-Drydan Mar 2, 2009, 4:01:33 PM
*maniacle laugh* :paranoid: wait...who?

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Many thanks to =WeavingMagic for the icon! I lurves it. :love:
:icongneralshock06:
~gneralshock06 Mar 2, 2009, 4:03:31 PM
myself unless you fall in to the same catergory

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"boredom is the father of all bad ideas and undertaker to the fools who attempt the worst of them" gneralshock06 19:32 26/02/09
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=Teague-Drydan Mar 2, 2009, 4:05:05 PM
hehe judging by the maniacal laugh just a bit ago, and the fact that I enjoyed writing said poem, I may just! Won't my family be shocked?

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Need a name? Ask me here.

If you found this helpful, and are a member, please let =RawEm0tion know!

Many thanks to =WeavingMagic for the icon! I lurves it. :love:
:iconmaster-tonio:
~Master-Tonio Mar 2, 2009, 4:28:56 PM
ah i like this! its so sick and pure at the same time. nice!

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A good laugh's never so unhealthy - [link]
:icontoaakatsuki:
=ToaAkatsuki Mar 2, 2009, 4:34:03 PM
ahahaha. love this. xD It's awesome.

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The world is not beautiful; therefore it is. ~ Kino no Tabi

~ShortStackStories
~Amaranth-Portal
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:icongneralshock06:
~gneralshock06 Mar 2, 2009, 4:47:06 PM
maybe about the damned part but they probably already know about the madness, it's easy to spot.

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"boredom is the father of all bad ideas and undertaker to the fools who attempt the worst of them" gneralshock06 19:32 26/02/09
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