The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 10/25/07

[BlueIris]

"Horror Movie"

Dr. Unlikely, we love you so,
You who made the double-headed rabbits grow
From a single hare. Mutation's friend,
Who could have proclaimed the end
When the Spider Woman deftly snared the fly
And the monsters strangled in a monstrous kiss
And somebody hissed, "You’ll hang for this!"?

Dear Dracula, sleeping in your native soil,
(Any other kind makes him spoil),
How we clapped when you broke the French door down
And surprised the bride in her overwrought bed.
Perfectly dressed for lunar research,
Your evening cape added much,
Though the bride, inexplicably dressed in furs,
Was a study in jaded jugulars.

Poor, tortured Leopard Man, you changed your spots
In the debauched village of the Pin-Head Tots;
How we wrung our hands, how we wept
When the eighteenth murder proved inept,
And, caught in the Phosphorus Cave of Sea,
Dangling the last of synthetic flesh,
You said, "There’s something wrong with me."

The Wolf Man knew when he prowled at dawn
Beginnings spin a web where endings spawn.
The bat who lived on shaving cream,
A household pet of Dr. Dream,
Unfortunately maddened by the bedlam,
Turned on the Doc, bit the hand that fed him.

And you, Dr. X, who killed by moonlight,
We loved your scream in the laboratory
When the panel slid and the night was starry
And you threw the inventor in the crocodile pit
(An obscure point: Did he deserve it?)
And you took the gold to Transylvania
Where no one guessed how insane you were.

We thank you for the moral and the mood,
Dear Dr. Cliché, Nurse Platitude.

When we meet again by the Overturned Grave,
Near the Sunken City of the Twisted Mind,
(In the Son of the Son of Frankenstein),
Make the blood flow, make the motive muddy:
There's a little death in every body.

—Edward Moss

[BlueIris]

1. Come on. So cute.

[ThomCat]

2. Kick this back to the first page!

[BlueIris]

3. Awwww, thanks.

I can always count on you.

[Canuckistanian]

4. "Der römische Brunnen" - "The Roman Fountain"

German:
Der römische Brunnen

Aufsteigt der Strahl und fallend gießt
Er voll der Marmorschalen Rund,
Die sich verschleiernd, überfließt
In einer zweiten Schale Grund;
Die zweite gibt, sie wird zu reich,
Der Dritten wallend ihre Flut,
Und jene nimmt und gibt zugleich,
Und strömt und ruht.

English:

The Roman Fountain

High climbs the jet and, falling, fills
up to the brim the marble rounds
that overflow in veils and frills,
into a second basin's grounds;
the second, now too rich, forsakes
its waves and on the third one spills
and equally it gives and takes
and stirs and stills.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

OK, it sounds better in German.

[BlueIris]

5. Niiiiiice.

Thanks for playing!

[BlueIris]

6. But, but this is funny. I thought the Lounge was all about The Funny.

[BlueIris]

7. Kickin' it for the night crew.

[DarkTirade]

8. Science fiction double feature... Dr. X will build a creature...

see androids fighting Brad and Janet... Ann Francis stars in Forbidden Planet... :P

[BlueIris]

9. :-)