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Leonard Nimoy, who immortalized the character Mr Spock in the Star Trek series, died on 27 February at the age of 83.
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Sir Terry Pratchett, best selling author of the Disc World series (among more than 70 books published), died on 28 April aged 66.
For this prompt, I ask you to read a selection of the quoted words of either man, until you find the one that inspires you to write an original poem. Please include the quote with your post.
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Leonard Nimoy
Sir Terry Pratchett
16 comments:
This ought to be fun, Terry. Fun but a hard assignment.
I have on request at our library Prachett's last published book, "THE LONG UTOPIA: A NOVEL." You told me that I would like a couple of other suggestions more but since this was his last I still am going for it.
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I am first. Goodness that rarely happens. Thank you so much Kerry for the inspiration.
Sorry for manhandling this a little.. I had the poem and managed to find a quite that fitted.. :-). I only have 10 sonnets to go now.
I'm a big fan of Nimoy, not as familiar with Pratchett, but in the end it was Pratchett whose quote sparked my poem.
It had to be Nimoy... *smile* Sorry for being a bit absent from responding to comments and visiting fellow toads for a few days. Will try to make better!
Hey Kerry! You may know (since I say it often) that Pratchett is just about my favorite writer. I've probably read forty books of his many more than forty times. I wrote a not very good poem when I first noticed this prompt, then--my house is being painted--lost that notebook--then found it--it was truly not very good!--so think I've come up with something else. But I was struck looking at the quotes how many great ones there are. He tended to recycle a bit, which makes sense given how many books he wrote--so some of the best ones have been repeated but they are well worth it. I also wanted to say I got a draft of the prompt for tomorrow up; I'll be adding pictures but the basic prompt is there. k.
(◕‿◕｡) chose Spock without even blinking, i'm a Trekie
much love...
Hello Everyone,
Hope you all like my poem. I chose Sir Terry Pratchett as inspiration.
Thank you Kerry for this wonderful prompt! It was fun :D
xoxo
Love this.
I am really struggling right now with the April process--my ability to assimilate is suffering--never read Pratchett, and not very into Nimoy either, but I will read some quotes and see where it leads and get back if I can--thanks for the challenge, Kerry, even if I can't find the words.
Thank you, Kerry.
combined this with Magaly's prompt. I hadn't read much of Pratchett, so this was cool. but I threw away "the tribble with" because, well... ~
Hope it was okay that I scrolled past page 1 of Pratchett's pages to find just the quote I wanted.
Hey Kerry--I so love Pratchett and wrote a more serious poem than the one I ended up posting, but just had a bit too much going on, so went with something more silly. Agh. Onwards and upwards. k.
I enjoyed this, Kerry...I learned some interesting things about Nimoy that I didn't know before. Thank you, for the challenge!
Is there no end to my temerity? A few days ago I was arguing with Joan Didion; now I am contradicting the revered and beloved Sir Terry!
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