B2MEM 2012 - Last Days

[altariel]

I don't have much time for B2MeM this week, but I'm claiming my prompts, scribbling notes, and working through them when I get a chance. Here are my most recent efforts.

Prompts:
Poetic Forms: Cinquain
Off the Map's Edge: The Land of the Sun

Easternesse

Easternesse,
mountainous, mysterious,
source of sunrise,
stirred by soundless seas,
Rómenórë.

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Prompts:
Facets of Faramir: Statesman
Meta: If [insert canon work] took place during WW1 or WW2

There'll Always Be An England

Childhood was a brief golden summer, blighted by his mother’s sudden death. After that came poetry, and the relative obscurity of the second son. A first at Balliol (history). He survived the first war, but scarred, besieged by tumultuous nightmares. Women of a certain type adored him for his cheekbones, the early loss of his mother, his sombre solitude, his kindness. Entering Parliament on his brother’s death, he understood the Nazi threat early. The backbenches beckoned, then vindication under the new PM. And as the bombs hit Dresden, he thought: I am not the man I imagined I would be.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Daughter of a doctor who goes to Newnham. Assigned to be his driver during the war. He retires from politics after the war so that she can contest a Parliamentary seat in the 1945 election. Something of a stir that she's a Labour candidate. Takes her a couple of goes, but she eventually gets elected, rising to become a minister for health during the first Wilson administration. Eventually made a life peer in her own right, after his death. Three children, one of whom is well-known feminist academic writing on female modernists.

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

So very perfect. Hearts.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*hugs*