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SONNETS
#96-104 for Tea Time in L.A. #38 - TOPIC: BtVS #25,26
"Surprise"&"Innocence"
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in
L.A. #38- (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare
would have. <g>)
Posted by: forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:33
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NOTE: If you watch BtVS
episodes #25&26 (Season 2 ep 13-14: the
episodes
where Buffy & Angel consumate
their love, and Angel loses his
soul)
this sonnet sequence may make a
heck of a lot more sense.
<smile>
BIGGER (but smaller)
NOTE: The insane idea of putting
Buffy thoughts
inShakespearean
sonnet form . . . is based on the even more
insane idea that
you might want to
give it a try yourself.
For a
"sonnetized" explanation of why this is
not insane <g> . . . you might
read
my previous Bronze threads WHY I POST IN
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS:
PART 1: tid=48156
PART 2: tid=48152
THEN if that
challenge seems like an interesting one to you,
look for TEA TIME in L.A.
at 7:00
PM BRONZE TIME daily . . . which is truly
strange. <g> But it just might
save
the world. <ewg> In any case, you can brag
about being able to write better than
fill-in-the-blank.
<g>
TEA TIME SONNETS
#96-104/154(Shakespeare
wrote 154 sonnets . . . why not you?
<g>)
Rhetorical
verse in Shakespearean sonnet
form
BUFFY-DREAMS-
RE: "Surprise"&"Innocence Episodes
25,26 of
BtVS
[READ
THE ENTIRE 9-SONNET SEQUENCE. . .
BELOW]
NOTE: TO KEEP THE
SONNETS FROM SCROLLING INTO OBLIVION <g> . .
.
PLEASE DON'T REPLY HERE,
THANKS,
POST FEEDBACK / COMMENTS /
QUESTIONS AT
tid=80583
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=80583
you
speak
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Responses
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1 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFF-DREAMS -
(about BtVS episodes 25-26 "Suprise"
&"Innocence")
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:43
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TEA TIME SONNETS
#96-104/154
Rhetorical verse in
Shakespearean sonnet
form
BUFFY-DREAMS
- RE: "Surprise"&"Innocence"Episodes
#25-26 BtVS
(1) THE
EPISODE BEGINS IN BUFFY'S
DREAM
Drusilla. Willow. Monkey without
pants.
Her mother's broken cup. And
Buffy's scream
as Spike's mad
paramour kills her romance.
Her Angel
turns to dust -- his fingertips
fall from her
grasp. Drusilla wishes her
a "happy
birthday" as the horror rips
our heroine from
dreamland's aquifer.
The stratum down below
our consciousness
where flow is unimpeded
by constraint
of reason's narrow channels which
compress
(ubiquitously, hence without
complaint) . . .
. . . our possibilities
to just a few.
In dreams all probabilities
are true.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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2 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:41
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(2) REFLECTING
BACK FROM 25 TO 1 . . .
it was
in Buffy's dreams HER TALE BEGAN.
Her
ancestry of night met morning sun
as she awoke
(and I turned into fan).
NO, DON'T
FORGET that Buffy's dreams came first . .
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. . . BEFORE WE HEARD her mother call
her name
identifying she (both blessed and
cursed
by slayerhood) whose face would
bear that fame.
BEFORE THE GIRL herself,
her dreams imposed
upon our viewing minds
her fate's long line
of destiny in
visions of her foes.
Though we could not
interpret ev'ry sign . . .
. . . that flashed
before our eyes in that first
scene.
The title hinted what it all
might mean.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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3 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:41
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(3) WHY AM I
DANCING 'ROUND her dreams so
long
(three sonnets into this long stretch of
verse)?
BECAUSE there's many ways to get it
wrong --
so many ill conclusions people nurse . .
.
. . . assuming dreams can only echo
facts
in evidence extracted from real
life.
AS WHEN in Buffy's dream Wil's
monkey cracks
in French implied
Oz-talk she shared. No knife . . .
. .
. however, did Drusilla ever wield.
THE
QUESTION IS: WHAT CAN A DREAM
REVEAL?
Vague ref'rences to hurts that
haven't healed?
OR can they glimpses from the
future steal?
MY POINT IS, yes, some
dreams predestinate.
(Not simply random
details
duplicate.)
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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4 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:40
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(4) I ONCE
DREAMED of a coral snake and
"tongs."
WELL, NOT EXACTLY "TONGS"
. . . I had no name
for what I saw. Not something
that belongs
within that contexst. Nothing used
to tame . . .
. . . a snake's aggression.
No, these "tongs" had
bends
that made no sense for
something meant to hold
a squirmy snake by
pinching at the ends.
I COULDN'T SEE why such
"tongs" would be sold.
THAT DAY I WENT
to kill some movie time
and walked into a
show I had not planned
to spend my life on, nor
to waste a dime.
Just why I picked it . . . DID
NOT UNDERSTAND .. .
UNTIL MY DREAMLAND KINKY
"TONGS were used
to spread a drug lord's
victim's mouth. CONFUSED?. . .
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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5 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:39
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(5) THOSE
"TONGS" weren't meant to pinch, but open
wide
a human mouth. That's what those "bends"
were for.
To let a coral snake crawl deep
inside
the drug lord's victim -- keep an open
door . . .
. . . for venemous intrustion past
the teeth
kept spread by bends I had
not understood.
THIS LITTLE EPISODE I know
bequeath
to you to take whatever that you
would.
I DO KNOW . . . long ago God
spoke through dreams.
I do not
claim myself a prophet now
(I quickly clarify
'fore someone screams).
But dreams can
prophesy. (Don't have a cow.)
<g>
I NOW RETURN TO BUFFY'S
WORLD at last
to see what light two episodes have
cast.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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6 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:38
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(6) IN BUFFY'S
SECOND DREAM (no we're not done
with
dreams, but only with my private
ones)
THE ONE WHERE Angel's walking in
the sun.
"You have to know what you see,"
his line runs.
AND AT THAT MOMENT Jenny
Calendar
is lifting her black veil, WHICH
BUFFY SEES . . .
. . . then leaps awake to
act. She can infer
the meaning of the
dream. It does not please.
AND SOON
her hand is wrapped 'round Jenny's
throat
who soon unveils her secret
gypsy role
in Angel's punishment.
"That's all she wrote."
SO
BUFFY casts her out, and Giles
concurs.
In Buffy's world, sometimes
dreams can wear
spurs.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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7 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:37
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(7) ENOUGH OF
DREAMS (Good Lord! Thank God, you
say.)
We turn to love and sex
and consequence.
WHEN WOMEN "give it up,"
the guy must pay
much more than it should cost.
But, hey, we're dense. <ewg>
THAT IS
THE STORY, FOLKS, so don't blame me.
'Twas
Joss, not I, that took 'ol Angel's
soul
as payment for a loving night with
B.
You get your "happiness," you
pay the toll.
I HEAR some voices rising:
"I protest
this vile intepretation of the
tale.
You stupid 'guy!' You really need more
rest.
You claim to understand? Good Lord, you
fail! . . .
. . . It's all about the
girl you idiot.
Restate your case, or we'll
all kick your
b*tt.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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8 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY-DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:36
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(8) DEAR LADIES,
PLEASE, DESIST. I will rewrite.
Whatever you
would have me say, I will.
I don't compose this
verse to start a fight.
I'm not a slayer
who is out to kill . . .
. . . some guy who
broke her heart and now must die.
OOPS, THERE I
GO -- I stepped in it again.
BUT, golly gee, I
cannot tell a lie.
It surely seems that Joss does
not like men.
WELL, that was just a rhyme,
but let it stand.
THERE ARE NO good, stong men --
'cept Riley's wife.
WELL, BLOODY HELL . .
. that's not what I had planned
to say at all.
This verse is trutly rife . . .
. . .
with strange excursions 'cross my neurons'
wires.
What can you do when one of them
misfires?
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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9 of 9 (sonnet sequence) BUFFY DREAMS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 06, 2002, 6:35
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(9) I'M SURE
THERE'S SOME TRUTH HIDDEN in that line,
but
Sam & Riley are a LONG way off,
and so
at last I'll promise to confine
my final words to
eps now in our trough.
EPS TWENTY-FOUR and
FIVE are ones all praise
as
keystones of the Buffyverse. Pure gold.
I
love Drusilla's ev'ry turn of phrase,
and
perfect, wounded Spike need not be
sold.
Sweet Buffy's broken heart broke
my heart, too.
And Xander's got a girl . .
. and better plan.
If cows have piles of hay,
do they still moo?
These were the episodes
that Bronze a fan.
BUT I'VE HAD VERSE TO
WRITE, and so I did.
Nine sonnets
dashed in haste. What do you bid?
<smile>
THE
END
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HAIKU
CODA
How long would it take
for one hundred
fifty-four
sonnets . . . without
rest?
<smile>
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