Create a New world

Turf Bay ~ Jacek Yerka (2006)
Creative Commons Wikipaintings.org

Kerry over in the Imaginary Garden asked us to pen a poem about a fantasy type world. She shared this artist...wow!   Jacek Yerka!  I'm intrigued.....aren't you?!

Kerry fills us in on the term Worldbuilding.   It was a term coined in the 1970s,  during workshops of  Sci-Fi writers.  It refers to the process of creating a fictitious world, in which the writer's imagination may roam free.  You can read more  here:   Wikipedia.

Kerry shared this link of the Top 10 Fantasy worlds in Literature. 

 Intriguing- I am working on an outfit, for my daughter.  She is going to do a colorguard performance based, on Alice in Wonderland.  My daughter is going to be the Queen of Hearts.  I feel quite challenged.  My daughter is the type, who every Halloween has decided she didn't like her costume.  She gets this gene, from her father.   I like to dress up and love Halloween.  Every year since the tender age of three-Halloween has become a battlefield.  I have asked her, "do you like this or that?"- I feel like I'm cursed.  I want to create an updated, steampunk and funky.  She wants  more regal and glam...so we are butting more than heads.  Augh...  The thing is this isn't a play, it is a moving performance, where the crown must remain intact, while dancing and twirling a flag.  Then at the end, she will remove the crown.  She wants gold and I want a crown made out of cards.  She wants glam.  The gown can't be long and she will be barefoot.  We will have to meet in the middle, muddle, the puddle of shiny fabrics, the world of bling-rhinestones, and make it work! We have only agreed on two items so far.   A basic black dress to add the items to and the tights...yikes!   I told her yesterday-I am letting you pick, but your Colorguard teacher wants something new, different. You have to be willing to be playful and not think of the traditional costume.  I think I am going to make her a Lady Ga Ga type crown-so not traditional, lol.

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Emerald eyes I see spike 

and grow on my watch

who gave you this bitter pill-weed

time to transplant your

bleeding heART roots

and repaint the garden

roses 1/2 baked

tarts half grown

you turned my world upside down

tick, tock clock...

time for a spot of seredipitea

no creativitea

come with me

where we will draw new lines

  of normal 

plant ingenuitea

in rainbow hues

our map with wonder

 will collide

with your volcano views

listen to the echo of your heart

in the green sea

right there you hold it,  I mean

tea in your cup...

put it to your ear

hear the old thoughts

collide

Let's plant new memories

in the sepia glitter

the storm is coming

the air is sticky n' sweet

gummie worms in the new

patty cake 

let's mark it with a 

C and

craft a new world

just you n' me...

Quick get your shovel

we must dig up the plant of despair and doubt

now plant those

Ruby Red slippers

and see what grows...

© Ellen Wilson