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Part 13 of Good Omens Poetry (GOetry) Prompts
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GOetry - Good Omens Poetry Club Collection, GOems (Poetry by the GOAD Writers Guild), Best of: Good Omens Poetry Edition
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2025-04-15
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Fall

Summary:

Crowley tells the story of the Fall, in the style of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl."

Written for the GOetry prompt: Sentence

Notes:

UPDATE: Now featuring narration by the brilliant Nosferatini!!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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I saw luminous angels most holy plunge headlong, extinguished melt into sulfur,

emerge majestic mad gnashing raven-winged wild-eyed gorgons bedlam,

who clawed crimson trails, laughed and shrieked, gnawed glass and bone, dribbled poison froth,

who hurled bombs of glee shredding starlight and dark matter, warping chords melodies sanity.

I dashed loped slithered away, up, up, up into Earth, lush verdant garden,

crashed into the one standing guard, soft as wool, fastidious, nattering fuss and fluff,

flung him my soul, splintered sparking shards,

and breathed.

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Notes:

Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence derives from the haiku form. It consists of seventeen syllables, but in sentence rather than verse form.

In response to the prompt, I initially wrote the sentences in seventeen syllables. But since it was Ginsberg’s form, I wanted to pay homage to his iconic poem “Howl,” so I modified and expanded the sentences.

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