Multifandom Poetry Fest 2021

[minutia_r]

Welcome to the fifth annual Multifandom Poetry Fest, a prompt fest for poetry for all fandoms! Have fun, and feel free to promote it on your journal/community/tumblr/discord server/whatever if you want. You can copy the code in this box wherever HTML applies:

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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: Can I write fills without leaving any prompts, or leave prompts without writing any fills?

A: Go 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, or a poem that spoils recent installments of canon (or make a request for the same). Is that okay, and what sort of content do I need to warn for?

A: Sure, that's fine. Warnings are considerate and appreciated, but they're also up to the discretion of the individual poster. Consider this a warnings-optional space and read at your own risk accordingly.

Q: Can I prompt/write original works?

A: Original works are a fandom! If you want, you can specify genre and character types while prompting, like so: original fantasy setting, female elf/female orc, next time I won't miss.

Q: I want to participate, but I don't have a dreamwidth account/I'm shy.

A: That's okay--anonymous posting is on.

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]

Original Works, librarian/library ghost, the rustling of pages

File under: BF1444-1486

[kiraly]

Now the clock is striking twelve,
all the lamps are burning low,
as the day's last book I shelve,
comes your whisper, soft and slow,
Must you go, alone to leave me,
You alone who can perceive me?
Or may
you stay
'til the breaking of the day?

I must leave and lock the door,
walk into the rainy night,
You who lived and died before,
tempt me not with words so bright,
I, who read your whims and rages,
in the rustling of pages,
must go
although
your sweet voice it lures me so.

If you love me leave me not,
what are we but words and wind?
I whose bones were left to rot,
You whose kiss was never sin,
Stay tonight and stay for always,
haunt the reading rooms, the hallways,
and we
will be
bound in death, forever, free.

Re: File under: BF1444-1486

[hhimring]

That is great!

Re: File under: BF1444-1486

[kiraly]

Thank you! <3

Re: File under: BF1444-1486

[the_leaky_pen]

ahhhh i love this! it is both spooky and fun, and I am really into this particular rhyme scheme and metre!

Re: File under: BF1444-1486

[kiraly]

Thank you! I looked through a lot of poetic forms trying to find one that fit right, before finally landing on this one (which as far as I know isn't actually a named form, I just borrowed the structure of a famous John Donne poem). I feel like it fits really well and I'm glad you liked it! :D

Re: File under: BF1444-1486

[minutia_r]

Oh gosh, this is so soft and haunting. I love it, thank you! <3

(Also, I forgot I was going to look up the call number until after I posted the comment. But then I did. ^_^)

Re: File under: BF1444-1486

[kiraly]

Yay, I'm glad you like it! And hehe yes, I felt like the call number range made for a fitting title here. Thanks for leaving this great prompt! <3

Fill: librarian/library ghost, the rustling of pages, kyrielle sonnet (variation on)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

[apologies for not making it very slashy]

the ghost’s abroad, along the spines; I know
that odd familiar frisson apropos
of nothing less than ten score years ago.
a haunted well-thumbed rustling tells me so.

I tiptoe through the stacks without a sound
the spectre waits; its insubstantial glow
a guide to treasure lost, soon-to-be found;
undaunted, spell-plumbed rustling tells me so.

the phantom moves when all are safe at home
it draws me, bookishly, where I must go,
how do I know when I’ve reached treasure tome?
a gaunt and knell-dumbed rustling tells me so

the ghost’s abroad, along the spines, I know,
a haunted, succumbed rustling tells me so

Re: Fill: librarian/library ghost, the rustling of pages, kyrielle sonnet (variation on)

[minutia_r]

Oooh, this is so spooky, and I love the form!

Re: Fill: librarian/library ghost, the rustling of pages, kyrielle sonnet (variation on)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!