Saga ~ Unnumbered Impossibilities ~ UDC3 Completed in time 1/28 ; Thank you all *hugs*

3. Rain

Feeling it is a conscious decision
Take off the helmet
Lay the head back
Get wet

Closing my eyes I take a pounding from the rain
Washing away the mud
The blood
The weariness and pain
If just for a moment
- Endex -

"Put your bucket back on, you'll catch a cold."
Of course that's Sila warning.

"Yeah, you'll die of pneumonia and never get old."
Jerem again, still joking.

I haven't heard a word from Fi
For too long
I open my eyes, look around
And find him frozen
In my pose
Eyes still closed.

His is a salty rain.

Absolutely wonderful!

 

*feels more like miracoli*

Du fühlst dich wie eine Nudel?



Well, for a piece of pasta you write wonderful poetry here. Your words are also perfection like clone troppers in the snow.

 

You say you had trouble with snow, but I think it's perfectly done. You always manage to find something ordinary and make me think--yes, that's just right! So, as always, great work!

 

Thanky you Vadey. I really like that one, it makes me sad.

Azure. Clone Troopers in the snow. You give those ideas, dear.
What? You never said anything about them being like - dressed...

ginchy - Maybe it just takes longer to see the similarity when it's so obvious. Some of the really hard promts turn out great. There's not always stars of inspiration dancing around my head after doing a frustrated headdesk:repeat on a prompt.


Liked these, kinda. After I found the way through them that is, with Moki blazing a trail of fire. Poor guy.
*pats Moki on the head* 's alright vod'ika.

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[b][u]Week 14: Fall from Grace[/u][/b]


[u]1. Allies[/u]

[i]Voran, Voran
Vode an[/i]
together we'll fight this war
victory or death
[i]kote darasuum[/i]
we accept nothing less!

The glory is ours, the power and strength
We're marching together, we'll go any length
And [i]resquiat in pacem[/i] should your mission end
We'll honour you and never forget your name and number my friend

[i]Dawei, dawei,[/i] to the end of the stars
Until there will be no more wars
The glory is ours, everlasting fame
We are one forever in heart and in name.

The time has come
Our song is sung
And the battle has begun
[i]Darasuum kote
Darasuum vode[/i]





[u]2. Enemies[/u]

I don't believe you
I don't believe it
It's an impossibility
We are one army
We are all brothers
None of us is an enemy

Wherever you got your intel from
It sucks even worse than what we get
Clones killing clones will never happen,
My life and my [i]vodes' [/i] I would bet
On that.

And I don't care what they say they were
Thos mummed figures in black
They were not clones,
They can't be clones
You must be way off track

Must be, you hear me because if you aren't
It leaves us with enemies front and behind





[u]3. Spies[/u]

In the glaring brightness of the day
Us
Trying to find what really matters
Truth

And so we sent a message of doubt
And find us waiting tensely.
"That's what it is, Skirata out."
And what we feared immensely
Is true and happens around us
Is true and my brothers and I must

Keep our heads down, don't say a word
We're part of it now, not of the herd.
And all the biscuits in the world
Can't pay us back.

Doubly unseen and watching out
In this deadly sea of white
We belong, and don't
We care too much




[u]4. Smuggler[/u]

The situation is dangerous
And also so hilarious
"Jerem, please at least do try
Not to giggle all the time."

"Yes, boss." But there he goes again.

"Identification?" "Theta Squad."
"State your mission." "Retrieving a pod
to sent the armour of the fallen back."
That should do the trick.

No need to tell them the armour is still inhabited
And that, though we stated
It would go home
We really mean
[i]Manda'yaim[/i]

Farewell my brothers
And greet those far lands
From one who as yet is just yearning
From one who is still learning
Not be
Part of the army



[u]5. Traitor[/u]

To stand there and be at home
[i]Manda'yaim[/i] and not alone
My [i]vode[/i], my brothers
Maybe some others
What would it mean to me?

To live there and the rain
To have a wife, maybe a child
To won a home
Not having to run
Would it work?

And Jerem, Sila, Fi
If they don't want to come?
They will, but if?
I know it is my dream, not theirs
My longing, my hope, my pain
Can it ever be the same?

To stand there and be at home
To stand there - gone

Where does it leave us

Traitors








[b]Note:[/b] Allies has some language mix in it. i order of appearance:
German: Let's go, let's go
Mando: Brothers all
Mando: forever glory
Latin: rest in peace
Russian: Let's go, let's go
Mando: forever glory / forever brothers

 

I really like how you used different languages in "Allies". That really made it stand out. But "Traitor" really caught my attention, too. I guess I just react to that longing.

 

Great set, mixing those languages in them.
Excellent work again.

 

Once more a nice play with language and words, hon!

 

I loved them all, but Traitor really stood out for me.

 

ginchy - That first one came to me almost in my sleep. I was very grumpy having to get up for pen and paper.

earlybird - I had to check on 'dawei' becasue it's very flexible. Glad you like it.

Azure - So, how many languages did you get?

Vadey - It might be hahrder for somebody who's life is the military to realise that what he wants, demands he betray everything he values. Poor Moki.

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[b][u]Week 15: Descent[/u][/b]


[u]1. Spicy [/u]

Memories of the good old times
Something even we possess
Though the time of your youth
Is certainly much shorter
What do we care?
Intensity
Is our middle name
- if we had names -

But we have numbers, so instead
Try to number the countless
Fathom the boundless
Try and tell us what we are
Secret in a dirty war
Hidden in plain view
For everyone to see
Behind each victory
There is us.
And people alive because
Of us
You show the Jedi

You want to give this war a face
That is fine
We have just one.



[u]2. Sweet[/u]

Victory
Again
At last
Again
Move on
Victory ' obligatory
We're the best of the best
Of course, we win

What else is there but victory for us?
Death
Nice choice right there, of course, we win
Go on,
Move along
Next battlefield
Next victory
Next battlefield
Move, move, move
Take, take, take
And in our wake
A trail of triumph

Sweet?

And as we clean up the battlefield
Do we get to savour the taste?
What else does this triumph yield?
Among the shrapnel bits of human like waste
Only not human, nobody cares
For fallen clones

Sweet Victory

[u]3. Sour[/u]

Turned sour within the hour
What victory?
We didn't win
Anything
Again.

But we fight - we fight
And set things right
We couldn't tell from wrong.
But we say
It's okay
We can't tell right from wrong
We have our orders
What do you think we'd do
If we could tell right from wrong?
Scared?
But no worries
We are all innocence
Shabla frigging innocence
We don't live lone enough
To get spoilt.

This is our war even though it isn't
No matter how hard I try to believe
This isn't our war
But we have to fight it

[u]4. Bitter[/u]

Oh, we are not bitter at all
To be bitter you need to fall
From grace without reason
And short of treason
We have nowhere to fall.
We don't have a choice taken from us
Unrightfully
We never got it in first place
So why gripe about destiny?

We don't gripe
We wipe
Out what you put us on to
We tick like little clockworks
On and on and on
We fight your war
What choice do we have?
And if we lose
What choice do we have?
And even if we win
What choice do we have?
This is

[u]5. Rotten [/u]

The whole war
The lies upon lies
And in the middle of it
Us.
How can we hope to stand unspoilt
Undefeated and strong?
When all around us things fall apart
Sticky sweet scented
Decay decanted
From everywhere
Worse than then smell of spilt blood
Eating up from inside
Bribed-eyed
All

We know there's something rotten
Though we don't get the time
To contemplate
We feel it in our bones,
Fractured and floating
Something that is growing
Bloating
And we with no time
To stem the tide
Fell the crumbling
Overwhelming
Of everything

What we fight for
What it is

 

great set again about the horror of war.
They are fighting because they are bred to fight

 

Superb! Yet again.

2. Sweet

Victory
Again
At last
Again
Move on
Victory ' obligatory
We're the best of the best
Of course, we win

What else is there but victory for us?
Death
Nice choice right there, of course, we win
Go on,
Move along
Next battlefield
Next victory
Next battlefield
Move, move, move
Take, take, take
And in our wake
A trail of triumph

Sweet?

And as we clean up the battlefield
Do we get to savour the taste?
What else does this triumph yield?
Among the shrapnel bits of human like waste
Only not human, nobody cares
For fallen clones

Sweet Victory

 

earlybird - Maybe it would be less horrible if there was more in it for them. Not that they won't fight anyway. What else do they have?

Vadey - Thank you.

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[u][b]Week 16: Group Effort[/b][/u]




[u]1. Bridge[/u]

[i]Moki[/i]
Alone
Punching in codes
Override, disable, ignore
Mess up the system to the core
So it won't realise what my brothers do
Got to be thorough
Or there won't be a tomorrow
For us to remember today
I want my tomorrow
I want all my tomorrows
And I want to own them
So here I am today.

And here I am tomorrow
If there is tomorrow
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and
No way out
No future
Just another sorrow

No!
I will not let this happen
To my brothers and me
We shall be free.
One day-
Tomorrow





[u]2. Engine Room [/u]

[i]Sila[/i]
Disconnect here
Torch through the bulkhead
Remove isolation insert something inert
- as yet -
Back up
Set a timer
Cut some cables
Wait a sec
Check
Moki doing fine up there.
Good job, boss.

Now for the engines and the shields
This ship is a beauty such a shame
To let it go to waste
In such haste
We could use a bucket like this
More often than not
But instead?

Well, here's the overload
That's for the meltdown
Shield malfunction
And a virus that's playing Rodian Roulette
With the fuses of the torpedoes.
So here it goes.





[u]3. Sickbay [/u]

[i]Jerem[/i]
Getting the sucky job as always
Ew, those are used bandages over there!
Don't they ever clean up
Before evac?
But anyway
Hey!
There it is, nicely wrapped up like a gift.
Whatever those samples are good for.
C'baoth?
Never heard that before
Sounds like a disease right there.
And I am outta here.

If this is not the silliest mission
At least it's easy
Not really deadly
And strangely
Enough that doesn't calm me.
We're seek and destroy
Not tarry and play

Should have grabbed some meds
While I was at it
Life is easier
High on stims





[u]4. Corridor [/u]

[i]Fi[/i]
First in, first out
Last one standing
Not again - never!
Steady steps resounding
Concentration mounting
Another last check of my tasks
Check.
Check.
Check.
Check.
Check.
All done, check again.
No mistakes allowed.

First in, last out
Never again
Last one standing.
Viewport-icons?
Check.
Almost all set.

Increase speed
Feet pounding faster
A rhythm resounding in my bones
Homeward-bound
Over and out
Never again last one standing.

And no grey and endless corridor
Sneaking and winding forevermore
Can take this from me
This time it will be
[i]Darasuum[/i], forever
[i]Vode[/i], and no matter
What they throw at us.





[u]5. Shuttle Bay[/u]

All of us
Winging it
- they put some fine wings on this bird -
- can we roast it? -
- never lost again -

Distance: check,
We're out of danger,
Mission completed, and all still alive.
- doesn't look damaged at all from outside -
- can't it go boom while we watch -
- this is my batch -


If they can afford to lose a ship like this
For that
We look at each other through blue-lit slits
- damned if we do, damned if we don't -
- a very neat box to be trapped in -
- and we don't even have scrap value -
- as long as we go as one -

 

Wonderful!

 

Lovely poems again

 

You are one of my friends who have the ability to make me speechless, hon!

Great stuff again! A sea of words and emotions.

 

Another couple of excellent sets of drabbles here. I'm sorry I'm late in this time! My favorite was "Sickbay". Poor guy. Again, your drabbles just always flow so well together!

 

In before the lock. Better late than too late.

Vadey - Thank you.

earlybird - Thanks.

azure - Don't be speechless, How am i to talk to you if you can't answer.

ginchy - Jerem is the clown of the squad, but that doesn't mean he's always happy. And the prompts were just asking to be tied together into one mission.

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[b][u]Week 17: We are Wishes[/u]
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[u]1. Head Over Heels[/u]

Hasty departure if I've ever seen one
And I have seen a lot
We're quite fast, if not the fastest
Commandos travel light.
Nothing to anchor us down anywhere
Except in our own squad
No personal item to tell who we are
Except what' in our head.

But we are, and we are here
Head over heels in a war
We are made for
And we are

Who we are
The best
Doesn't matter you almost overtake yourselves in fear
We are still here.
Faster,
Already gone
Like a dream.
We were made for this
Don't try to beat us.




[u]2. Under the Weather[/u]

What has weather to do with it?
I stepped into the storm
- wipers would have been nice -
Weather is just an environment
Been there, done that, finished, endex
- watertight suits are unbeatable -
Turn on the heat in the suit
Put the cooling to do some work
- even the air is filtered fine -
The weather cannot touch us
Out of its reach we are
- in it still, surrounded -
But we came prepared
We did all this before.

Still the cold is cold
Rain is wet
The sun too hot
And we cannot
Be under the weather
Because we've been there before




[u]3. Tooth and Nail[/u]

Do deny it, and you are so right
We're nothing like you at all!
If what I see
Means to be
- human -
I'd rather be a clone.

You probably mean well,
Creation's crowing glory
Says who?
Created, that's us
Perfected and perfect
Designed, full of purpose
We know what you keep looking for
We are. And we know what we are.

That we should be the same
Tooth and nail
No!
Biology is not an excuse
To make us some of yours
Genetics are no reason
We should end up being
Humans like you.

We are clones
Humans like us.





[u]4. Tie the Knot[/u]

Why of all colours in the galaxy
White?
If I had a choice -
But they chose white.


They say it's innocence
They say it's purity.
Why does it make me laugh,
Why does it make me cry?

But I saw her all in white
Shining
And it felt like
Shooting a star
Irrecoverable
Gone
And the red star spreading on the white -
Beautiful in its own right
Star upon star and I would never
Choose white.

If I ever got
To tie the knot
I'd want to be all colours
Add them to white
Subtract them to black
[i]Alii'gai[/i]
Grey




[u]5. Bite Your Tongue[/u]

Not one word
Run!
Don't look back
What's gone is done
Watch their backs
Run, run, run!

One for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready
And four to go.
Just run,
Make three go,
Make it just three
That is okay
As long as they go.
Run!

Bite your tongue
Not a word
And silence, just silence
You know, [i]kar'taylir,
kar'ta[/i]
You know they will make it
And as long as they run
- as long as they just run -

Maybe I have always known it, what does it matter now?
Three to go and one down.

 

4. Tie the Knot

Why of all colours in the galaxy
White?
If I had a choice -
But they chose white.


They say it's innocence
They say it's purity.
Why does it make me laugh,
Why does it make me cry?

But I saw her all in white
Shining
And it felt like
Shooting a star
Irrecoverable
Gone
And the red star spreading on the white -
Beautiful in its own right
Star upon star and I would never
Choose white.

If I ever got
To tie the know
I'd want to be all colours
Add them to white
Subtract them to black
Alii'gai
Grey

Wonderful!

 

Great again all those poems.

White, yes innocence but they are soldiers, bred for war

 

I won´t bite my tounge, I will tell you my oppinion straight away: brilliant, simply brilliant. You catch the moments when they come and breath them out in perfect words.



Due to you clones have a soul and depths. Thanks!

PS: Due to this line: But we are, and we are here I must think about a very old WARLOCK song...

 

Vadey - Thank you. I didn't really know what to do with that one, because most clones never get close enough to a woman to get ideas like that.

earlybird - Can I tell how relieved I'll be in two weeks time? Yeah, innocent warriors, makes you wanna kick somebody, but there's nothing to be done about it. just funny how they are bred to kill and then clad in white. *shakes head*

azure - Perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Glad to be able to offer you some. Never listened to WARLOCK, though. I hope it's a clone-worthy song.

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[b][u]Week 18: Comparisons[/u][/b]


[u]1. Youngling[/u]

Taken as children
Us and them
To be trained for our tasks.
Taken without choice
We are the destined
Chosen by accident
No choices.

Just a biological quirk
Separating
Us and them, both
From the rest.
Humanity
Has many faces
Or just one.

The only difference is
That they are taught to lead
While we are taught to follow,
Truly bred to follow.

But there is hope
For us and them both
That we end up:
Proud of who we are
Good at what we do
Perfectly trained for the job.
Happy?
Maybe.
To be who we are and satisfied.



[u]2. Initiate[/u]

The four of us as one
Initiates of our tiny order
Growing up too fast
Growing together to be as one.
None
Ever alone.

Nobody can share this intimacy
Our haven and burden
Because the is just nobody
To understand who ain't one of us.
Raised, trained, and drilled with his brothers
Relaxing, reclining and finding yourself
With your brothers
Not one minute alone
Reacting, acting as one
Something you can't imitate.

No community as closely knit
As a band of vat brothers
We are into the secret of us
We are the secret
A mystery of its own accord.




[u]3. Padawan[/u]

This is a step we skip
No irresponsible days of youth
No time for mistakes
Fail deadly where we grow up
No reprimands, just demise
Perfection is our premise
And we fail not.

We don't get shipped off
To Agri Corps
If we're sub-par
We're just off - everything, forever.
Maybe it is better
Not to have
A bunch of
Half-baked warriors running wild.

Some think that's what we are
Half grown
Half the age
But double the knowledge
What do they know?
We're only half apart
We were grown adults
But we are still kids
Until our first hard contact.




[u]4. Knight[/u]

Knight in shining white armour
Creature of legend and myth
Protector of good and innocence
Symbol of hope and love -
And then you get us.

I have to laugh
Tears fry the electronics
In our helmets
You get us.

But we're real in a real war
No petty, pretty game
We fight we win
We lose, we die
All the same.
Because we can take it
Were bred to take it and we do.
Not the ones wielding sabers or the Force
We [i]are [/i]one.

Shining white knights
Of this one republic
Deserving or not
We are what you get.




[u]5. Master[/u]

Of war and fighting, battles on any ground
Hostage extraction, assassination,
Rapid entry, infiltration
Operating without sound
Masters of the art of war
Masters at being what we are.

We may obey your orders
But we interpret
We aren't stupid
Our lives are precious.
Not as much as theirs
- perhaps -
It depends on what you need
Warriors they are not
They are simply caught
As leaders in a war
They don't understand
We understand because we know
All it can entail
And how to vanquish it.
We are -
Masters of all that
When I would just be
Master of myself

 

Another superb set of drabbles! My favorite:

1. Youngling

Taken as children
Us and them
To be trained for our tasks.
Taken without choice
We are the destined
Chosen by accident
No choices.

Just a biological quirk
Separating
Us and them, both
From the rest.
Humanity
Has many faces
Or just one.

The only difference is
That they are taught to lead
While we are taught to follow,
Truly bred to follow.

But there is hope
For us and them both
That we end up:
Proud of who we are
Good at what we do
Perfectly trained for the job.
Happy?
Maybe.
To be who we are and satisfied.

 

The only difference is
That they are taught to lead
While we are taught to follow,
Truly bred to follow.

True, true...

 

Excellent series and so true for those clones

 

You constantly do a terrific job in using words that don't apply to your subject in any way! You really get to the heart of what the prompt is about and apply it to the clones. I really enjoyed this set as I have enjoyed all the others. These poems are all just little gems.