Writing a poem like the Tardis in Doctor Who (Gateway to the Eternal)
by @bardo
As kids we were avid watchers every Saturday evening of the Sci-Fi series Doctor Who on the BBC
The Doctor was a Time Traveller who travelled around in a thing called the Tardis
which was a small police box
(It probably would have housed a police telephone)
The gimmick in the show was the police box was very small yet when you went inside
It turned out to be a lot bigger inside having several levels
It was meant to emphasize that the Doctor occupied a different dimension in time and space, something like that anyway.
I was thinking one day that some of the things I write are very long, can be several pages long
Most people live busy lives
They don't want to be reading something that's long
They want things short and to the point, something quick, something that hits them Bam! Bam! Bam!
And then it's over
So if you do write something long you really gotta hook the reader early on, draw them in and surprise them
Give them something they'd get lost in
Bring them on some incredible fantastic amazing journey
Something they'd wish would never end, that'd keep on going and going...that'd go on forever
So I was thinking my Tardis would be the opposite of the Doctor's it'd be big or large, long on the outside
But when you'd go inside it'd be suddenly strangely small and compact
It'd be like Alice in Wonderland
You'd be plunged into this strange new world so different
Where suddenly different rules would apply
All your old familar bearings would now be meaningless/ useless...would no longer make any sense
It'd be like taking a drug you'd quickly forget the length of the thing
You'd be carried along as if lost in some trance or dream
Glimpsing maybe a beauty here... an insight there... always feeling like there was some great secret tantalising near
A place quite wondrous... magical ...
You too would have defied time and space
You'd have come close to approaching...touching... the eternal.