Multifandom Poetry Fest 2017

[minutia_r]

This is a prompt fest for poetry for all fandoms. Welcome, have fun, and if you want to promote it on your journal/tumblr/whatever, you can just copy the code in this box:

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Rules

1) Leave a prompt in the form of fandom, characters or relationships, prompt. If you don’t want to specify the fandom or characters, you can say "any." One prompt per comment. Leave as many prompts as you like.

2) Reply to other people’s prompts with poems. The poems can be any length or form, or no form. Quality isn’t important--the point is to have fun, not to produce deathless works of art. (Any deathless works of art produced are just a bonus.)

FAQ

Q: I want to write a sonnet/haiku/villanelle/limerick, but I’m not sure how it goes.

A: You can find a good list of poetic forms and their structures here.

Q: I want to lik the bred.

A: Go right ahead.

Q: I want to fill a prompt, but someone else has already filled it.

A: That’s okay, prompts can be filled multiple times.

Q: I want to write explicit erotica, or a poem with potentially disturbing themes. Is that okay, and what sort of content do I need to warn for?

A: Sure, that's fine. Warnings are up to you, and choosing not to warn is okay too.

Q: How long is the fest going to be running for?

A: Currently, I don't have any plans to close this post to comments--I figure we'll keep going until everyone gets bored and wanders off. I reserve the right to change my mind, though.

Q: Is there a collection on AO3 where I can post my poems?

A: Right here.

Q: I want to participate, but I suck at writing poetry.

A: Aww, you’re probably not as bad as you think. But even if you are, it really doesn’t matter--like I said, the main point is to have fun.

Comments

[minutia_r]

The Goblin Emperor, Csetherio/Maia, a sword against your enemies

[hamsterwoman]

As dainty bauble we could never please
The court, the gossips, but, Serenity,
We'll be a sword against your enemies.

A warrior's heart is out of fashion these
Days, and like our nose, it's plain to see
As dainty bauble we could never please.

No handicap is kindness; no disease
A gentle heart upon the throne, and we
Can be the sword against your enemies.

You build your bridges, never to appease,
But to do right: a lasting legacy,
No worthless bauble. It could never please

Us to be mere drapery, to cease
The warrior's dance; we choose instead to be
A sharpened sword against your enemies.

So let us share, in hardship and in ease,
Whatever fate thou findst or buildst for thee:
As dainty bauble I could never please --
I'll be a sword against thy enemies.

[minutia_r]

*gasp* Oh, beautiful! I love love love the shift to the familiar in the last stanza.

PS please crosspost this to tumblr so I can reblog it.

[hamsterwoman]

Awww, thank you so much! :D I'm very glad you like it :) (And as soon as I realized I could play with the formal/familiar pronouns over the course of the poem, I knew I had to do it :D)

Posted on Tumblr now, and I may have even succeeded in tagging you in the post, although tbh Tumblr-specific stuff still eludes me most of the time, so also quite possibly not XD

[minutia_r]

I saw! And I also realized that I misspelled Csethiro's name when I was writing the original prompt, gdi. I tried to tell you on tumblr, but as you say, tumblr interface ... maybe this will work better? Anyway, I'm going to hold off on reblogging it for a little bit in case you want to fix it, because I know it would bug me if I were you. But either way.

[hamsterwoman]

Ah, thank you for flagging that! Fixed :) (I never would've noticed if you hadn't pointed it out, probably, because as much as I like the unusual structure of the TGE names, the feminine -o and masculine -a endings, etc., my eyes just skim over them as complete words because they are so hard to parse. XP)

[minutia_r]

Did I ever tell you how I consistently misspelled one character's name in the first yuletide fic I ever wrote? I must have read Cyteen at least five times and it took having a conversation out loud, in person (like some kind of caveman) with someone else who had read it before I realized it was Catlin and not Caitlyn.

[hamsterwoman]

Haha, oops! XD

Names are hard, and fantasy names especially so! I end up googling Sybil Ramkin's name before writing it down half the time (and she's one of my favorite Discworld characters, so I've written her name a fair bit!) and there was at least one LJ post where I misspelled the name of a character I'm downright OBSESSED with several times, although in my defense he does have one of those tricky names where one consonant is doubled and the other is not and I was doubling the wrong one in some cases.

[zdenka]

I like this a lot.

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you! I'm glad it worked for you! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Very lovely! I particularly enjoy "like our nose."

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you! :D

(I feel like Csethiro would be the kind of person to make a joke/wry comment about her own appearance in a love poem :)