ATTACK – A Truly Tempestuous And Critical Klingon

The Rhyming Klingon has heard your attempts to draw him out and seemingly dispensed his own challenge. Leaving a series of graffiti messages across Starbase Bravo’s otherwise clean walls, he has left you a scathing poetic parry to your earlier offerings. Starbase security lack the creative talents to craft a response and turn to you for help in crafting a witty poetic reposte.

Submissions for this competition should take the form of an acrostic poem. This is a short poem where the first letters spell out something relevant to the poem, often the subject matter at hand. The most famous example is Edgar Allen Poe’s Elizabeth.

The Rhyming Klingon has left his own example;

Knave, I name thee.

Low in thought and witless in word.

Ignorant of all that makes the artist,

Not fit to sing alongside Kahless. 

Gutless and without honor,

Odious in deed as in mind.

No warrior are you, so weak with rhyme. 

K – L – I – N – G – O – N

Criteria

• Submissions should take the form of an acrostic poem entered directly into the competition submission box.
• The poem should be at least 6 lines long forming a word with a minimum of 6 characters.
• Submissions will be judged on a scale of 1-5 (5 being highest) for the following 4 criteria; 30% Correctness of form and style, 30% Creativity of content and style, 30% Relevance to canon and ongoing in-universe activities, 10% Correctness of spelling and grammar
• The highest-scoring poem will be declared the winner, ties will be decided by the order of submission.