Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Poem: "FARBLONDJET"

This is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from LJ user My_partner_doug.


"FARBLONDJET"
-- an acrostic poem


For a traveler out and about, it's
Another unexpected twist in the route,
Road curving out of reach and
Beyond all reason:
Lost, adrift as if
On an ocean, and
Not only lost but
Desperately lost,
Journey wrenched awry in
Every way, past recovery, a failure
Total and complete in its trajectory.

* * *

Notes:

Acrostic poetry uses initial letters to spell a hidden message.  Learn to write acrostics, they're easy.

"Farblondjet" is a Yiddish word for lost.  It can be spelled a lot of different ways.  I like to define it as, "Not only lost, but so far lost that you not only don't know where you are or how to get where you're going, you don't even know how to get back to where you were when you did know those things."  I actually learned this from a Jewish character long before finding it in The Joy of Yiddish.  In our defense, we had just accidentally flung a space station halfway across the galaxy.
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ysabetwordsmith

No ...

ysabetwordsmith

July 5 2016, 22:18:05 UTC 4 years ago

A search didn't turn up examples of that.
terrycloth

terrycloth

July 6 2016, 01:28:12 UTC 4 years ago

I think he's pointing out that you don't have an N line.
kestrels_nest

kestrels_nest

July 7 2016, 03:26:04 UTC 4 years ago

In our defense, we had just accidentally flung a space station halfway across the galaxy.

I'd love to know the story behind that!
ysabetwordsmith

*laugh*

ysabetwordsmith

July 7 2016, 03:31:48 UTC 4 years ago

It's part of the future history of my main SF setting.

They had some problems getting graviton technology to work. The first big botch-up cracked the crust of the ocean near Hawaii, which required installing chillers to avoid boiling the nearby ocean. Whoopsie. So that got the project kicked off the planet.

Then they were trying to invent artificial gravity, and accidentally invented a stardrive instead. On a station that wasn't actually designed to go anywhere. It went though.