Ode to a Turret

[contributor]

We have lots of great writers on the forum but do we have any great poets? Compose a poem to honor my epic turret below, or any other turret you want.

[wascalwywabbit]

Sweet turret, Lone sentinel,
So many Xeno attack,
Guts splatter
You save and distract,
but who will save you?

[contributor]

I got my submission ready:

When the big guns fell silent, you roared.
Unflinching, unfailing, in front of the horde

Where man and mech both feared to tread,
You stood and fired, building walls of the dead.

A ten, it breathes fire, the demons all spewed,
Father Dredern knew better, you were only a two.

Hellborn, you were christened to kill and abuse
On the day of our struggle, a fabulous ruse.

Once fallen and battered, the xeno they roared,
An illusion to savor, the big guns now restored.

[Cory Trese]

Haiku to a Turret
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Left behind to kill
Do what you were built to do
Xeno die in fire




(My Haiku is written to a flame turret.)

[Officer Genious]

Dammit, I have a haiku too...


Snow melts in the sun
A single snow plow holds sway
A bloody winter

[Officer Genious]

One more... I don't have a problem! 😭

A murderous rampage of hell
Bullets stream to and fro
And so many corpses lie
Baking under the cold sun

[Zer0Winds]

Oh turret, that which stands alone.
In the face of the horde, you stand.
Unflinching, you fire.

Build the walls.
The dam to stow the tide of blood.
The corpses mount, the guns never end.

Oh turret, that which stands alone.
In the face of the horde, you stand.
Unflinching, you fire.

Man fears the horde of Xeno.
You stand alone, destroying that fear.
No mech or man stands here.
Only you, who builds the dam.

Oh turret, that which stands alone.
In the face of the horde, you stand.
Unflinching, you fire.

The sentinel, whose words be lead.
The sentinel, who kills the dread.
The sentinel, who stands alone.

NOTE TO ALL: I am not a poet.

[Cory Trese]

This thread continues to improve

[capthawk]

'Twas the night of Moklumnue, and all 'cross the waste,
All the Xeno were stirring, for Templar bloods taste,
The gear we'd equipped was chosen with care,
In the hopes that we'd survive, with hit points to spare,

The new recruits were snuggled back on the Righteous to wait,
With hope filled dreams of getting deployment late,
I in my armor, and Dalan popping caps,
Had just helped our first Engineer lay down turret traps,

When from the west trench, there arose such a clatter,
I sprang past the ODB gun, to see what was the matter,
Away to the west I flew like a flash,
Moved my six, then engaged Warriors Wrath,

Revealed in the light as the fog of war rolled back,
Were a horde of Xeno, on the attack,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a cache of supply points, and a second Engineer!

With Boosted Reactor, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment we'd recruited Shelnix,
More rapid than Scitterings, his turrets he deployed,
He called them by name, I knew it was something he enjoyed:
"On Dasher, on Dancer, on Smasher and Vixen,
On Comet, on Cupid, on Gunnar and Blitz'em!"

As dry leaves that before the hurricane fly,
When the Xeno meet the HMG hail, they wither and die,
So up over trench walls purple gore flew,
Well engineered, those turrets struck true,

I sprang to the east, gave my Squad a whistle,
And to the next objective we flew like a thistle,
But I heard the turrets reckoning 'ere we drove out of sight,
Sending Xeno to hell to the left and the right!

*With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore😝

[contributor]

Truly epic ode to our epic turrets.

[beverage]

I'll trry a limerick

There once was a turret alone,
Parting chunks of xeno flesh from bone,
The hordes encroached,
Still It fired without hope,
Now it only lives on in these poems.

[xdesperado]

Still air
Hall long empty now coated in dust
Whine
Whir
The stillness is broken
Gears protesting the passage of time
Tireless
Watching
Awaiting an enemy that threatens no more
The Templars you gaurded long departed
Abandoned
Forgotten
The war has moved elsewhere
But still you stand sentry
Gaurdian
Shield
Forever vigilant
Vae Victus