TeaTimeSunday / SONNETS
BUFFY-VERSE SERIES (66-69)  SONNETS #70-73 of 154  (74-77)
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BtVS EPISODE #16 (2.04) "Inca Mummy Girl" ONE-HAIKU (EPISODE) RECAP: The one where Buffy must fight an ancient princess ... (a teen doomed by fate) |
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(for reference only) SONNETS #70-73/154 for Tea Time in L.A. #28 - BtVS16 Inca Mummy Girl ORIGINALLY POSTED AT (UPN) WWW.BUFFY.COM ... BEFORE ALL FORUMS WERE DELETED 9/19/02 ... CLICK THE BRONZE SKULL TO SEE ARCHIVE COPY OF (NONCOLOR) VERSION (FOR COMPARISON) |
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in L.A. #28 - (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare would have. [g]) Posted by: forensicpoetry - Apr 21, 2002, 6:27 PM
A SONNETIZED SUNDAY SUNNYDALE SERMON
rhetorical verse in Shakespearean sonnet form }
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a sentient mummy sealed by sacred curse
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through human history. Could she forgive
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the sacrifice her people did coerce . . .
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by force of their traditions' cruelty?
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Five hundred years -- a coffin limousine
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bore here in solitude. Dead eyes that see . . .
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that no one ought to bear . . . But they chose her.
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Of course her people had to educate
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its blessed children so they would concur . . .
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BUT THINK, DEAR CHILD, before you heed that call.
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SOMETIMES WHAT NATIONS GLORIFY is dumb.
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And sometimes evil slips by in that form.
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There may be good cause for your martyrdom,
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BUT you must judge yourself. Not just conform . . .
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You owe your nation more than body parts.
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A citizen is someone you can trust
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to use their brain and soul -- yes, all their smarts . . .
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for sacrifice makes sense . . . or is insane.
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IF NOT, a nation ceases to be blessed
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and "we its people" will go down the drain.
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or bring us down by Satan's hidden hand?
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The sound of "SATAN" fit's a verse line well.
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Though I have no desire to preach that name
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for superhuman evil straight from hell,
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celebrity has weight, and "he" has fame.
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for how humanity goes off the track
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of grace and beauty, runs off of the road, . . .
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AND FOR A TIME BECOMES A MANIAC . . .
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it reaches common knowledge and destroys
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a generation with a poison pill
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of insane sacrifice and deadly toys.
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BUT always THINK, before you don that crown.
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OF COURSE, IT IS THE WORLD in its "wild" state
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that brings these lines of verse across this screen.
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A world that's run amok with murd'rous hate.
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And so I must take care with what I mean.
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deserves no hearing. And since here I sit
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and type these words in U.S.A. confess
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to all the world . . . our leaders don't know sh*t . . .
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WHERE'S CHRIST -- who said to love your enemy
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and turn the other cheek -- when WAR's unfurled?
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It's hard to lead . . . but stop the blasphemy.
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But ev'ry faith has truths we must defend.
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