All tagged Star Wars
Before you go see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, check out this Star Wars-inspired sonnet, about the big baddie himself, Darth Vader, from Andrew Pidoux.
Victims would swoon
like failed crops in his wake, while he lifted
barely a metal-boned finger. No moon
was safe from his sixth sense: he was gifted
with the Force.
Andrew Pidoux returns with another sonnet from a galaxy far, far away - this time based on Han Solo.
if his so-called “hunk-of-junk” spaceship
weren’t retrofitted with warp drive to thwart
hulking Star Destroyers and give the slip
to Bounty Hunters, he and his hairy
co-pilot, Chewbacca, his only pal,
would have stood no chance against such scary
monsters as sarlaccs, exogorths, et al.
Al Ortolani invites you to the best party this side of a galaxy far, far away in "Death Star Halloween".
We returned to our apartment; the kitchen
vibrated with crazies from the Cantina.
The Ewoks appeared with plastic
jack-o-lanterns and uninspected candy.
We dumped it on the Millennium Falcon
bedspread and left them to squabble and sort.
Andrew Pidoux returns to that galaxy far, far away for his poem "Leia".
She was a princess but you’d never know.
Adept as she’d become at getting down
and dirty in the trenches or the snow,
she had no use for castle, throne or crown.
He seemed to know
everything and nothing, as if space-time
ran right through him and he merely channeled
its Tao. He could feel the rhythm, the rhyme
of all things, understood the untrammeled
Force in all its power.
To save the galaxy is no big deal,
but to save it twice is much more than luck.
