As you know, I should be teaching a Sc/Fi course in the winter. I was talking about it w/ some students who asked what we'd be covering. To that, I rattled off a list of novels, but I couldn't come up w/ many Sci/Fi poems (other than Rush/Bowie/Floyd lyrics). One of the students then said that her high school English teacher had written a bunch of cheesy Sci/Fi poems that he read to her class. I was thus inspired to go one better than this rumored neo-Horalax. With that in mind, I created my first Star Wars inspired sonnet. Enjoy... and feel free to post your own in the comments section.
Comparing thee to suns of Tatooine
Thou art more lovely and more singular
Rough winds and sand doth make the Tusken mean
And little Jawas talk peculiar
Sometimes the Sarlacc on the native dines
And often its digestive tract is filled
And every moisture farm sometimes declines
And Hutt or Kryatt Dragons’ victims killed.
But thy eternal twins shall never dim
The dreaded Death Star shalln’t destroy your home.
Forever with the Dac-born Quarren swim
Forever under R2's blueish dome.
So long as Jedi live and droids can see
So lives the Force and that give life to thee.
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