NanU's Poetry Bus

This week's task was to use the word verifications as a prompt, a genius suggestion by the lovely NanU - more riders will be found on her blog here.

Here's what resulted for me:

Verification

They wandered, stray forgotten myths,

The half thought, forbidden golden thoughts

bits driven to survive for aeons

they’d scintillate – a fraught and

lying spark in someone’s eye

a precious drop inside a yellow box

they were free, they floated

All that ended when the web was wove

Empires of Elves and struggling Strings of Sprites

were meshed into, and gargled, smothered down

their magic subtervented, spells ran dry

kept in check by electronic ether

none free, all information soon tied down

and it was owned by those who bought the engines

sold tickets for a world of windows

to the whole-wide-world-wide-web

Only alive now in the tests for humans

They try to get their humble message out

Octydle, Fwhorb, and fjowie, kweerb and drueman

It comes across as nonsense, feeble shouts,

My mind twists a second, trying to catch the mean

But then a shiver later, it is lost,

hopeless as a dream