Something New

[Shivabali]

If you like words and riddles...

 

Posting is an interesting thing. I like to read them all...some are dumb, some are bland, some are off the wall, most are informative and smile-invoking...there are more good than bad here. Writing about the services of CGC (poor/ok/ontrack etc.) have become tiresome. They perhaps would be ok if CGC actually responded to the many complaints. But they don't, so it's just a rant fest. OK. Keep the posts coming in-case they one day read them and react.

I have some friends here and there who have prompted me to "publish" some of the stuff I write. Mainly quatrains...an interesting style that evokes quick thoughts/actions/feelings and hopefully can even carry a narrative. Maybe it's the West's answer to the haiku. Anyway, most of my work is dark and usually deals with someone dying in some strange and perhaps existential or profound way. I also delve into the comic world which I love, and the quatrains here are more "guess who I am" type of things. Don't know. Just jumping out on a limb and sharing something a little different than what usually gets posted.

A big thanks to TNerb and Screenwriter3d for putting out posts that aren't always "comic related" but somehow still fit the medium and are good reads...therefore I don't feel so "out there" posting this kind of thing.

There is a character behind them all. Most are pretty easy to guess...esp. if you are a Marvel creature.

 

 

I watched the red and gold iron come crashing from the sky,

I wondered if a billionaire could keep his soul alive,

He owns his own creations, and plans the rest at best,

He never thinks twice when firing from his chest.

 

Green is glory and power, no jealousy here,

With fists the size of suitcases there is nothing to fear,

Except the blackout feast of gamma transformation,

Something always safeguards this desperate mutation.

 

I was always strong, and became thus,

Yet orange and rock, I won't discuss.

It's all about keeping a grim brutality,

I struggle to end conflicts without fatality.

 

By Crom I must have that thing,

Glistening in the moonlight on the summit's ring.

The Picts guard her with minute precision,

She is a Goddess! I've made my decision.

 

It should be a protuberance, the Earth stuck between my teeth.

Perhaps I could have used a silver surfpick to clean it underneath,

Or a nova storm to burn it clean. Oh my minion children!

One day the Earth will no longer keep me thin!

 

You must never free Akira,

Your life will become a cyberpunk thriller.

Dystopia regime is not the thing,

But has Tetsuo already lost the ring?

 

There is nothing but the fist. That is my iron core.

I've smashed six-inch canines and didn't tire,

I even mopped Stark off the floor.

Now I am looking for a hero to hire.

 

Red, red, red. It's the color of feasting on the fool,

I see red as blue and green as red. With that being said,

I don't understand the color of red.

Perhaps it's all the zombie blood I drool.

 

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[SW3D]

Wicked fun my friend! Wicked fun!

 

The Galactus quatrain is my fave with the iron man one a close second.

 

Thanks for the nod.

 

Maybe i can contribute one of my own (although i will probably suck at this but here goes)...

 

From a dying planet beyond the stars he cometh,

Like a Messiah symbol of Blue, Red, Gold, and Made of Steel!,

He leaps, he flies, and saves us all the time, And we declare him a God,

but perhaps he's just a man with a symbol on his chest!

 

Well that's the best i could do.

 

It isn't easy.

 

SW3D

 

 

[SW3D]

Wait... one more...

 

Emerald Knights from a Guardian Order,

Go out and Choose wisely your membership,

Patrol the Stars and Keep the Universe at Peace,

And recite the Oath and Shine Bright your Light Eternal!

 

Still not easy! But wicked fun!

 

SW3D

[SW3D]

I have Walked the Earth from Biblical Times as Punishment for my Sins!

Of Ancient Grand Design, He who is the Voice forbade me to interfere,

Only Witness and give Guidance in time of Great Need!,

Cloaked in Shadow and Words Mystic; a Stranger to some, a Phantom to others!

 

Okay, third times the charm.

 

SW3D

[SW3D]

A fourth...

 

Like an Adam I was thus Born; for Embryo to Man-God; the Progeny of a Misguided Cabal,

Once Free of my Cocoon, I killed my would-be Fathers and made haste for the Stars,

Until the Higher One found me and gave me a Name and a Gem,

Ever the Puppet on a String, both Life and Death fight for my very soul; How Strange My Destiny!

 

SW3D

[Ronnylama]

By Crom...you struck a nerve

sitting in Readed Verve

[Shivabali]

Hey SW3D...thanks for your contributions. I had a feeling you were going to give Warlock a 'train. Also glad to get some DC heroes in the mix.

Ronnylama...never heard of Readed Verve, but I like it. !!!