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Entry tags:
Poem: "Leaves in Passage"
Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Torn World
Colors: Vellum #12 "Disputed"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 345
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply
Summary: Traveling through a jungle need not involve paperwork.
Note: Torn World is a science fantasy shared world setting. The Southern Empire is a science-heavy society with some temporal technology ... which they depend on but do not understand fully, and which is causing problems they also do not really recognize yet.
"Leaves in Passage"
In the jungle,
you may travel
where and when you wish.
There are no forms to fill out,
no claims, no permissions disputed
or quarreled over or billed.
The trees will not ask
to see your licenses.
They do not care
if you are Purist
born free and remaining
in the bush by choice
or a former citizen
with a tattoo scraped off
or inked over anew
or covered by a leather band
to help you forget
what you left behind.
The leaves that flutter here
are the leaves of trees,
free as the bright-winged birds
that sing unseen in the foliage,
not the leaves of paper
made from dead trees
to bind up the lives of people.
Take to the trail.
Travel where you will.
Only keep your ears open in passage
for those who would imprison you
in paper chains,
for the territory, ah,
that is still disputed
by those who do not feel
that people or trees should go free.
ysabetwordsmith Story: Torn World
Colors: Vellum #12 "Disputed"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 345
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply
Summary: Traveling through a jungle need not involve paperwork.
Note: Torn World is a science fantasy shared world setting. The Southern Empire is a science-heavy society with some temporal technology ... which they depend on but do not understand fully, and which is causing problems they also do not really recognize yet.
"Leaves in Passage"
In the jungle,
you may travel
where and when you wish.
There are no forms to fill out,
no claims, no permissions disputed
or quarreled over or billed.
The trees will not ask
to see your licenses.
They do not care
if you are Purist
born free and remaining
in the bush by choice
or a former citizen
with a tattoo scraped off
or inked over anew
or covered by a leather band
to help you forget
what you left behind.
The leaves that flutter here
are the leaves of trees,
free as the bright-winged birds
that sing unseen in the foliage,
not the leaves of paper
made from dead trees
to bind up the lives of people.
Take to the trail.
Travel where you will.
Only keep your ears open in passage
for those who would imprison you
in paper chains,
for the territory, ah,
that is still disputed
by those who do not feel
that people or trees should go free.
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