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SONNETS
#143-146 of 154 for Tea Time in L.A. #48 of 50 - INSPIRED BY
BtVS #33-4 "Becoming"
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in
L.A. #48 - (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare
would have. <g>)
Posted by: forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:08
PM
Sonnets #143-146 of
154
What? You think only
400-year-old Brits can write 154 sonnets?
<ewg>
SAVING
THE
WORLD
rhetorical
verse in Shakespearean sonnet
form
READ
TODAY'S ENTIRE 4-SONNET SEQUENCE. . . POSTED
BELOW
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INDEX TO ALL PREVIOUS
SONNETS IS POSTED BELOW TODAY'S
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SCROLLING INTO OBLIVION <g> . .
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1 of 4 (sonnet sequence) SAVING THE WORLD
- (inspired by BtVS #33-34 "Becoming")
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:15
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HAIKU
PROLOGUE
Season Two's ending
is a high point
in the tale
of the
Buffyverse.
TEA TIME SONNETS
#143-146 of 154
Rhetorical verse
in Shakespearean sonnet
form
SAVING THE
WORLD
(1) THE ANTI-CHRIST IS
PART OF God's design.
I'm thinking of
Angelus as faux priest
who says to
Dru's confession: Do not
whine.
God's set a place for evil at his
feast.
Angelus is a liar . . .
But not then.
IT'S TRUE that dark and
light are in God's plan.
BUT that's
not clear at all to femmes and men.
(No
clearer if they are a Buffy
fan.)
HOW COULD the God of
ev'rything create
a villain who's not under
his control?
MORE THOUGHTS along this line will
have to wait,
bacause God says: Shut
up, or lose your soul. . . .
. . . You want
your name erased beneath your posts?
<smile>
This
is my world. You're guests. But I'm the
host.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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2 of 4 (sonnet sequence) SAVING THE WORLD
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:14
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(2) OK, DEAR
GOD, I'll drop theology,
before I burn my bridge
to your good grace.
I'll teach
"Becoming". Skip the blasphemy.
The
Season Two finale. . . We'll retrace . .
.
. . . the path of Buffy's
boyfriend across time.
From 18th cent'ry
playboy who is turned
by vampire Darla to
an undead slime
who near the end of 19th
cent'ry's earned . . .
. . . a gypsy
curse to punish him. His
soul
restored to suffer guilt. No end
of pain.
Eternal life within a mem'ry
hole
of victiim's faces with no chance of rain .
. .
. . . to wash away the horror of his
crimes.
THAT BRINGS US up to our postmodern
times.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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3 of 4 (sonnet sequence) SAVING THE WORLD
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:13
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(3) IN 1996, says
Whistler: CHOOSE.
Will Angel
eat more rats? (His present course).
OR
let a young girl slayer be his muse
for
songs of his becoming a new force.
. .
. . . that can be counted on
the side of good.
The demon shows him her,
and he is changed
by something in her
heart he's understood.
Priorities he had . . .
now rearranged.
He wants to help her
in her brutal fight
that fate has thrust
upon her. Add his strength
to hers. (Of
course constrained to when it's
night,)
He'll stand by her throughout
the total length . . .
. . . of her
life-span. . . . His choice made with no
word
exchanged with her. Yet still pure
love occured.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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4 of 4 (sonnet sequence) SAVING THE WORLD
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:12
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(4) BUT THEN,
of course, we know his vow's undone
by
"making love" to Buffy. "Happiness."
It was,
of course, no fault of either
one.
The path of ev'ry option we
can't guess.
SURPRISES
COME. If not, there'd be no point
of life
on earth. We'd simply skip this stop
along
eternity. But this juke joint
of chaos is
. . . . Let's call it GOD'S SOCK
HOP.
A METAPHOR I never
would have picked
without constraints of rhyme.
Does it make sense?
A slayer
danced with vampire then got pricked
by
life-and-world-transforming
consequence.
TO SET THINGS RIGHT
her tears would have to flow.
TO SAVE THE
WORLD she'd have to let him
go.
[THE END]
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NOTES
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| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:12
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FOR LINKS (Bronze
tids) TO ALL PREVIOUS SONNETS SCROLL
DOWN
REMINDER: Tea Time in L.A. (M-F) comes to a
close
the day after final Buffy of the season
5/22
Final episode of Tea Time in L.A. (7-8
PM BRONZE TIME) is Wed. 5/22
REMINDER 2: A weekly
version (still being designed) to be
called
TeaTimeSunday 4-5PM BRONZE TIME (every
Sunday)
begins on June 2
NOTE: The
insane idea of putting Buffy thoughts
in
Shakespearean 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>
FOR MORE INFO SEE
THE MOST RECENT TEA TIME CORKBOARD
at
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=141375
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INDEX TO PREVIOUSLY POSTED TEA TIME
SONNETS: (PART 1)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:11
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#1: BEYOND "NORMAL
AGAIN" - tid=46649
#2: RILEY & SAM'S
GROWN-UP-ITUDE - tid=47071
#3: WHAT DO WE HOLD
SACRED? - tid=47636
#4-7 WHY I POST IN
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS (4-sonnet sequence)
PART
1 - tid=48156
PART 2 - tid=48152
#8
DOUBLEMEAT MORALITY - tid=49007
#9-12 ALL MUSICAL
BUFFY (4-sonnnet sequence)
PART 1 -
tid=50573
PART 2 - tid=50575
#13-14
SONNET SCHOOL FOR SLAYERS - tid=50974
#15
BRING THE FUN IN - tid=51492
#16 NORMAL AGAIN:
IT'S ALL SO CLEAR - tid=52886
#17-20 IN THE
BEGINNING
PART 1 - tid=53362
PART 2 -
tid=53363
#21-24 HARVEST?
PART 1 -
tid=53901
PART 2 - tid=53900
#25 WRITING
THE BALLAD OF SMG - tid=55217
#26-27 DESTINY
4/03/02 - tid=58191
#28-29 SINGING LESSON
(SMG BALLAD PT 2)- tid=61131
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INDEX TO PREVIOUSLY POSTED TEA TIME
SONNETS (PART 2)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:10
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#30-31 THE PORTAL
& (BtVS#6) "The Pack" - tid=63216
#32-33 BtVS
#7 "Angel" - tid=65915
#34-37 BTVS #8 "I Robot,
You Jane"
PART 1 - tid=67039
PART 2 -
tid=67038
#38 -"The Puppet Show" (The Talent
Show) tid=68038
#39 - Tea Time Miscommunication
(Apology to yelnif) - tid=68039
#40-41 - DREAMER
ZERO (re BtVS#10 -"Nightmares") -
tid=68694
#42-49 - VISIBLE CRUELTY (re BtVS#11 -
"Invisible Girl") -
PART 1 - tid=69276
PART 2 -
tid=69275
PART 3 - tid=69274
PART 4 -
tid=69273
#50-57 - DO I HAVE TO? (re BtVS#12 -
"Prophecy Girl") - tid=71591
#58-61 -
RESURRECTION'S A BITCHA (re BtVS#13 "When She Was Bad")
- tid=73798
#62-65 - PARTLY LOVE (re BtVS#14
"Some Assembly Required) - tid=75553
#66-69 - AND
THEN CAME TWO (Spike & Dru) (BtVS#15 "School Hard")
- tid=77213
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INDEX TO PREVIOUSLY POSTED TEA TIME
SONNETS (PART 3)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 19, 2002, 9:09
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#70-73 (TT28)
SACRIFICE - tid=80713
#74-77 (TT29) CHARMED
(LIVES) - tid=81875
#78-81 (TT 30) SLANDERING
JANUS - tid=83534
#82-85 (TT 31) MORE GRAY -
tid=86715
#86 (TT33) AN EMPTY SPACE IN THE SOUL
(sermonette)- tid=90275
#87-90 (TT35) CONSTRAINTS
- tid=97955
#91-94 (TT36) NORMAL SNORE-MAL -
tid=102075
#95 (TT37) NOTHING TO SING ABOUT -
tid=102735
#96-104 (TT38) BUFFY-DREAMS -
tid=105077
#105-108 (TT39) GUYS! -
tid=107497
#109-112 (TT40) SPIKE'S SPECIAL
BLEND (PART 1) - tid=116315
#113-116
(TT42) SPIKE'S SPECIAL BLEND (Part 2) -
tid=123717
#117-120 "119 - 28 = 91" -
tid=124395
#121-124 XANDER'S SPECIAL HELL -
tid=124807
#125-126 (TT43)"PERVERSITY"
& "RHYMING VERSE IN THE BUFFYVERSE"
tid=125844
#127-130 (TT44) "SPIKE'S SPECIAL
BLEND(3)" & "DEADLY PROPRIETY" -
tid=127691
#131-134 (TT45) BIG BAD WILLOW/SPIKE -
tid=132137
#135-138 (TT46) UNFORGIVENESS -
tid=137623
#139-142 (TT47) UNPOETIC HEROS ARE ALL
WET - tid=141161
#143-146 (TT48) SAVING THE WORLD
- (today's)
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