OctPoWriMo 2015: Day 18: Our Secret World

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Our Secret World

The Netherworld is the place we run

To escape real world demands

It's the one place where we can truly be ourselves

It doesn't matter if no-one else understands

~Mo~

Notes:

Over the years, the members of Team Netherworld have heard how our blogs are "stupid" and "weird," and so are we. Our founder, The Real Cie, gets the brunt of this as she created the Netherworld blogs and is the member of our group who is the most active, even if much of what she does is behind the scenes as our editor, making sure that each post will adhere to the Netherworld mythology.

It is so hurtful to have your creative work constantly torn down. Cie is a sensitive person, as is everyone in our group. Most of us have had to deal with people who just don't get where we're coming from, who think we should just put our foolish flights of fancy aside.

This is a terrible thing to say, especially as in some cases, the flights of fancy may be the one thing that keeps a person hanging on.

The Netherworld is real to us. It may not be "concrete reality," but in some ways it is more real.

As the verse on our blog header at Dark Hearts Love Too says, it's "the only place where you can dream, living here is not what it seems."

Bless Steve Harris for writing those magical lyrics. He's been an inspiration to us.

~Mo~

Netherworld Truisms: Expect the Unexpected

Expect the Unexpected

 

Written for the final Red Wolf Poetry Prompt

 

A great Netherworld truism

Is Expect the Unexpected

There's plenty of insanity to go around

No character need feel neglected

 

Sometimes a flame bursts forth from an iceberg

Or a poltergeist shows his butt

Or that might be a visiting rock star un-dignitary

Huh huh huh...hey Beavis, I said Butt

 

Even here, nothing rhymes with orange or purple

Unless you count orange surple

Which has a flavor that can quite overwhelm you

If not paired with a stiff purple nurple

 

We find characters and adopt them

We create our own characters too

We invite spirits we loved in the living world

At the point when their time comes due

 

We don't do things the way others do

Which is why most people run screaming away

We Netherworld folk aren't like others

This ain't a place where the normal sorts stay

 

But if you decide to open your mind

You might like to stay a while

We'll make you see things in a different way

We might even make you smile

 

It's true that we're kind of nutty

But you won't need to be protected

We're not trying to hurt anyone, we're just having fun

In this realm of the Unexpected

 

Best wishes to you

In this year of New

 

Team Netherworld

 

Cross-Posted to:

Encyclopedia Netherworld

Poetry of the Netherworld



OctPoWriMo 2014: Day 25

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An Ode to Team Netherworld

My kindred spirits

Sometimes we worry too much

About what others think

Of the things we create

Who knows, maybe it's even true

That everybody else

Thinks our work is silly

Stupid

Ludicrous

Ridiculous

Twisted

Sick

They might cry that it isn't canon

Or that borrowing characters is the sign of an immature mind

Some have even said

That people who write the kind of stuff we do

Tend to be damaged individuals

So they write "shell" characters

Well, I say, maybe all that's true

But I counter it with this

I find the scenarios we create fascinating

Our characters, both original and borrowed, captivating

We create situations both zany and enchanting

Although many of us have given up on real life romance

We can't resist the magnetic pull

Of writing about two characters

Who become drawn to each other

In an irresistible dance

The magic may have gone out of many of our waking lives

Our souls crushed under the burden of debt

Of physical pain and emotional stress

Of bearing up under the weight of a lifetime of mental illness

There are no fairy godmothers for us

But we can be the fairy godmothers of our world

Maybe what we write is trite

Maybe nobody but us would want to read it

Maybe some would find us evil or stupid for loving magic

"This stuff could never happen," they say

"Come into the real world," they say

"Be more practical," they say

But we've seen the real world

And it hurts

And when it hurts we can opt to go deeper

Into that magical world of our own

~Spectra~

I love you guys so much.

Being part of our special world may literally have saved my life.

Thank you.

 Morgan Dragonwillow

Word Prompts:

Fascinating
Captivating
Enchanting
Magnetic
Irresistible

Shadorma for the Netherworld

Netherworld

The sixth dimension

Home to its

Myriads

Of things and souls discarded

From the living world

~Aurora~

 A shadorma is composed of six non-rhyming lines (sestina or sextet) and the syllable pattern is 3-5-3-3-7-5.  It can have as many stanzas as you like, just as long as each stanza follows the syllable pattern mentioned above .

For a longer explanation of what the Netherworld is, see this post. 

Cross-Posted to:

Encyclopedia Netherworld

Poetry of the Netherworld