Call it Fan Fiction. I waited and waited. I complained.
Today, I acted!
With anticipated permission from GT Dodge, today I moved to complete the minor trilogy Free Reins.
Firstly, Free Rein, by GT Dodge, a story based on the time honored metaphor in which a horse, given its head, takes over the battle.
Secondly, Free Reign, also by GT Dodge, (based on that maligned SOL metaphor, lifted from the game show, Queen for a Day!) in which the lady reigns freely as Princess for a Day.
But then the idea stagnated. The third trope, Free Rain, never followed. I waited... as noted above.
At long last, my muse threw together, strike that, pulled from with deep within me, a response to an inequity of the universe: Free Rain which ignores all the literary tropes and edifying opportunity to publicize (and maybe fix) the global water shortage, instead foisting a joke in awkward poetry.
(Remember my motto: 'at the close / my poetry blose')
Today, the Free Reins circle is full.
Soon to follow, these also-ran titles:
Free Rayin', tales of the sunburnt Conchs of Key West.
Fry Rain, rants from the angry Cajun whose hot grease spatters beneath a summer shower.
Freya and her Short Reign.
The list goes on!
Okokok, all criticism is good criticism; even if it is only good enough to balance the advice of helpful readers.
I had posted a funny story titled "Gladiator" and something struck me as wrong. Someone pointed out that if they picked that story because of that title, either they would end up mad because there was not enough gladiating in the story, OR, they'd not have picked a story with that title in the first place.
Huh. Readers think about a story's title? Who'd a thunk it?
Short read on a long post: it's still the same funny story but the title is changed to "That Johnny and the Gladiator".
I do not wonder, merely lament,
the scores dunked on poems here.
You may say, this site has purpose
limited to a cargo of crates full of stroke.
But. Not true! This site is open.
Think quick of the Cremation of Sam McGee. Of Dangerous Dan McGrew.
Their target audience quite similar.
And their praise raised to these days.
Please, as you read or re-read,
vote not as a disappointed critic but
with the enthusiasm of participants!
And at the close,
My poetry blose.