Buddhist Plutonian Conversion Romance

 Today's post was supposed to be quite different from what you'll read below. It was to deal with the dichotomy of using humour to fight cancer, which at the same time keeps people and God at arms length...

...hey, cheer up! It won't be that!

Because, this morning, God intervened, and had Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube Agency put up a post (well worth reading!) on upcoming trends in fiction, and she used an example which set me a sonnet-challenge (note to readers, this was originally intended for September 3, 2020's Five Minute Friday linkup...which had to be canceled).

"...if I were to sell a novel on Buddhists traveling to Pluto and, as a result, converting to Christianity while finding romance with Plutonians, I might start a trend of “Buddhist Plutonian Conversion Romances.” 

You've got to admit, that's iresistible.

To far Pluto did they travel,

fifteen Buddhists, heads all shaved,

but meditative plans unraveled

when they met fifteen Amish babes

who were there, Rumspringa trip

to that planet (well, it isn’t)

in a barn-raised rocket ship

never dreaming that their visit

would become a kind of mission

(good thing that they never tarried)

and the Buddhists became Christians

and of course, they all got married

and journeyed then right back to Earth

to give new writing genre birth.

If you found the sixth line puzzling, Pluto actually isn’t considered a planet any more; the IAU demoted it some years back.

And what better musical selection than the supergroup Europe, with The Final Countdown? (Click here if the video doesn't appear for you.)

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Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.