Drama, Friday, February 4, 2022

[sith_happened]

"Hello," Anakin said, sitting on the stage and swinging his feet off the edge. "I hope you remembered you have to recite a poem from memory today. Let's be sure to focus on the speed in which you are speaking and how loud you are speaking. I will want to hear you at the back of the auditorium without feeling as if you are screaming at me."

He smiled. "And if you've forgotten, well, consider this your 45 second warning to invent a poem on the fly and sell it very hard."

Either way, it would be dramatic, right?

Comments

Re: Perform!

[giveittoyoursister]

For some reason, Vi honestly wanted to impress Anakin, so despite knowing nothing much about poetry, she'd spent a lot of time looking for something that felt right. Of course, she hadn't really let herself think about why it felt right, which mightn't have been the greatest idea she'd ever had.

15 years ago
a massacre took place at daybreak
I died then was reborn

15 years have passed
daybreak bayonets dyed red
is still a blade fixed in the eyes

15 years have passed
I still have nightmares of those departed souls
I see them soaked with blood
I write each stroke each line
as an outpouring of the tomb

It was about then that her closed cracked, but she kept on, and if her eyes were bright with unshed tears by the time she got to the last lines, well poetry was supposed to evoke feelings or some shit like that, wasn't it?

Let the darkness transform into rock
across the wilderness of my memory

Re: Perform!

[sith_happened]

Anakin looked affected as well. "Interesting choice," he said, clearing his throat.

Re: Perform!

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi scrubbed her hand across her eyes, dashing the tears away. "Yeah, well I thought about doing one by that woman who really wanted to bang death-" Dickinson, Vi. You mean Emily Dickinson. Also, fake nonchalance is a lot more convincing when you don't have ridiculously expressive puppy eyes. "But, I don't know, this guy got it."