Multifandom Poetry Fest 2018

[minutia_r]

Welcome to the second annual Multifandom Poetry Fest, a prompt fest for poetry for all fandoms! 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 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 Last Jedi, Leia/Holdo, "You taught me how"

(Amen.)

[(Anonymous)]

Noi ci siamo inginocchiati,
Al suolo di marmo, fresco, chiaro
Vetrata colorata rifranto
Alla espressione-- mi, e ti.
"Che meraviglia," mi dicesti
"A tuo pastura lei ho condotto--"
E la tua pelle como Gioiello,
Zaffiri, rubini, l'oro santi.
"Beato sono," a mi dicesti.
Lo beato, amico, sono io,
L'acqua calma di tu anima
(Il rifugio che mi offristi
In cui ho pascolato, nascondo)
Pace, Pace-- e vita eterna.

[idleleaves]

Ahh, this is nice.

(Amen.) (Translation)

[(Anonymous)]

Apologies for the rudimentary Italian! Rough translation, w/o meter:


We were kneeled on the marble, cool and pale,
The stained glass refracted in our expressions.
"Such a marvel," you said, "He has led me to your pasture."
Upon your flesh, sapphires, rubies, and sacred gold. "I am blessed."
Rather, blessed am I, friend, for the calm waters of your soul,
(Which give me refuge, where I graze, where I shelter)
Peace, peace, and life eternal.

Wings

[elleth]

In sleep they carried you
Further than waking allowed. The sky and the lakes
And the air, yours to roam wide until
Waking.

In death they carry you
Further than even dreams can. The Birds' Path,
In swanwings' wake, should feel like freedom, until
Sleeping.

In life they'll carry you
Further than ever before. From ice to sky again,
Fluttering backwards into open spring air, until
Returning.

Re: Wings

[idleleaves]

Aaaa this is so nice!

Re: Wings

[minutia_r]

Oh gosh, that's lovely.

Re: (Amen.) (Translation)

[minutia_r]

Ahhh, nice! And my hat is definitely off to you for writing poetry in a language other than your native one.

[minutia_r]

Thank you!

[kiraly]

I don't need to ask, I observe
you say,
and I
still reeling from the steel
in your gaze,
brace for the blow.

You've seen, now
my secrets
shame and shouting, spoiled
child I was
and might still be
beneath the muscle.

A father never
home, a woman
paid to care
framed photos of happy lies
and fire
lurking like cobwebs in the corners.

A big house you say,
and food, too much. You are-
I wait
-an orphan
the last one left
unloved.
So sad.

The words are wrong
and yet
this dream,
less empty with you in it
may prove them true
after all.

[minutia_r]

Awww,Emil. This is really sweet.

[minutia_r]

Vorkosigan Saga, Alys/Simon, reading a map

[minutia_r]

Vorkosigan Saga, Donna|Dono & By, family skeletons

[minutia_r]

We met in the fields in autumn
Where the sickle slices everything bare and clean
The two of us lay down
And I rose up.

In the springtime
When ice cracks and tumbles downriver
We’ll meet again.

[elleth]

Mithrellas/Nimrodel - song of water

[elleth]

♥♥♥ What a beautiful poem. Sad, too, with such an inaccurately accurate conclusion, but hopefully Lalli's presence helps some. <3

[(Anonymous)]

there are roses blooming under
your skin. i trace them with breath
& fingers, watch the petals unfold
through your blood, a garden-grown
death like no other. you come from
white stone cloisters & soft-singing
fountains, know nothing of the sea
& her depths that swallow light, the
sea & her fingers that wove into my
lungs long ago, infected them with
saltwater & did not release me. now,
(we) the sea & her waves hunger to
swallow (you &) all this illumination.
(you &) the flowers that you twine
into my hair, the desire in me unknown,
unlit. (you &) your inhalation of gold,
exhalation of silver. all this light

(& you & you & you.)

[(Anonymous)]

On the winter sky
the belt of glowing light breaks.
Fuck that stupid fox.

[minutia_r]

*wipes away a single tear* it's so ... beautiful ...

Seriously brilliant use of the haiku form, A+

[(Anonymous)]

Nirvana in Fire; Prince Yu -> Mei Changsu; "To have you is to have everything"

[yuuago]

<3 This is lovely.

Re: (Amen.) (Translation)

[(Anonymous)]

*_* Oh wow, this is so pretty! And it's so cool that you did two versions. :O

[minutia_r]

Thank you! <3

[yuuago]

FFFF

This is perfect, my dear anon. :D

[yuuago]

YOU KNOW... I was going to comment properly on this, but I can't, because it's so perfect.
<3