I participate in a variety of hashtag games on Twitter, and sometimes the prompts involve poetry or inspire a poem.

Today, I'd like to share three of my mini-poems that I especially like.

The theme prompt for this one was "fireworks". None of my works in progress mention fireworks, but this poem came to mind, so I shared it. It could work for a firework, or for a life lived like one.


It shoots for the stars
Shining as if it were one of them
A brief life
At its apex, it blossoms
Into beauty, light and flame
Then it vanishes
Leaving only smoke
And fond memories
Of one who burned half as long
But more than twice as bright

This poem was inspired by my Undertale webcomic, Just Cause​. The style is a departure from my usual approach; normally I try to avoid repeating words, but this time I decided to take a few repeating words and see how much I could do with them.


Violence of your hands
Forces the clock's hands
To stop and turn back

It's out of my hands
Future is in your hands
I must take it back

Hear the call
Fly the coop
Take the fall
Break the loop

While echoes of your hands
Far gentler than my hands
Lie soft on my back

​This poem was inspired by my in-progress fanfiction for Don't Starve, called The Puppetmaster and the Shieldmaiden. It's the sequel to Four Times I Begged Them.


A game I can't win
Yet can't bear to lose
Should never have played

Reward for my sin
Rests on what she'll choose
After I betrayed

Trust she blindly gave
Ere I proved to be
Far less than she thought

And now she can save
Me and set me free
Or leave me to rot
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​They didn't think it could be true at first, but the reality of their newfound power is beginning to sink in.

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With this mysterious motivation driving them forward, Frisk's power over the timeline fully awakens.

They don't fully understand what just happened or how, so they're trying to shake these weird possibilities out of their head and find a more plausible explanation. But it's only a matter of time before they realize how powerful they've become.

The grey text saying "You cannot give up just yet" is one of the game over messages you can receive when you run out of HP. The game doesn't explicitly explain why you hear these messages, but it does drop very strong hints, which you'll see later.

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​The work-in-progress preview for page 45 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is ready! Here's one of my favorite panels:

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Poor baby. So little idea why this is happening, so quick to assume it's because they did something wrong, and so many old habits and beliefs they will need to unlearn if they're going to make it through this.

It doesn't help that their current opponent is one of the mentally weirder monsters in Undertale. The Vegetoid seems to have a sort of selective intelligence; it can speak a little, but it doesn't seem to be aware of this fact, and denies it every time it's spoken to.

It's smart enough to understand that a hand on the stomach can indicate hunger and that vegetable-shaped bullets resemble food, but not smart enough to realize that white bullets hurt people, and that its violent behavior can scare people away from touching ANY of its bullets, even the beneficial green ones.

Put all of this together, and it leaves Frisk in a dangerous position. The only way to placate the Vegetoid peacefully is to accept its "meal", but the thought of doing that brings up memories the poor kid doesn't want to relive. Especially not when their HP is low, and they don't yet know that they can self-resurrect.

Also, on a meta note, THAT RIBBON. I knew that ribbon was going to be trouble the moment I started adding it, and sure enough, I have nearly forgotten to put it in almost every panel where it appears. Heaven help me.

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The work-in-progress preview for page 44 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is ready! Here's one of my favorite panels:
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Page 43 is done! If you want to read the comic from the beginning, you can see all the published pages of Just Cause here.

Poor Napstablook - they're so sad, but they can't even cry without making people want to vacate the room. And poor Frisk, who very much wants to vacate the room, but is hampered by their barely-developed social skills.

The kid can be a bit two-faced at times, but to be fair, honesty is hard for a child who's afraid they'll be punished for telling the truth. Especially when that punishment could be death. For them, in a situation like this, lies and truth are more a matter of survival than morality.

And now, on top of everything else, they've got a voice in their head that isn't theirs. Let's hope it's friendly.

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The work-in-progress preview for page 43 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is ready! Here's one of my favorite panels, with no context. :P

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Page 42 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is finally ready! You can read the comic from the beginning here.
 

Poor kid. Video game logic is confusing and cruel when it suddenly applies in real life.
 
Fun fact: I actually completely rewrote the script for this scene before I started drawing it. The first version felt too much like a cross between filler and an overview, and didn't reveal enough about the world for my taste.
 
I think this version does a better job of introducing Frisk to parts of the world they hadn't previously known about, and revealing bits of their mindset and past.
 
It also introduced me to the dilemma of how to show that a character is holding their breath, haha. *Resorts to spelling it out*

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