Multifandom Poetry Fest 2021
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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:
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.
no subject
Date: 2021-03-30 01:16 pm (UTC)No Fandom
Date: 2021-03-31 10:01 pm (UTC)city rhythm cacophony
days pass in blindsight
black on blue on red and white
missing ending; crescendo-searching
no pausejustplay
s p i r a l i n g
kaleidoscopic fever dream
night’s eye: your
heartbeat.
steady breaths.
lighter’s flick,
smoke-covered city.
behind the curtain just:
Us.
wordless-dissolving
into
you into me into
.
and quiet gravity.
(memory rewind)
Re: No Fandom
Date: 2021-04-01 12:40 am (UTC)Re: No Fandom
Date: 2021-04-01 07:14 am (UTC)Re: No Fandom
Date: 2021-04-02 12:20 pm (UTC)Quiet comfort, Italian sonnet, The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky, Gen, POV Nicky
Date: 2021-04-02 06:32 pm (UTC)in the muted stillness which comes of knowing
and being known, defenseless, bare, scars showing
yet loved and lulled in arms which will not unlace
sono qui, here, so that nothing might displace,
disturb, or harm your slumber, your calm growing
profound, with every puff of hushed breath slowing
against my nape. Then, steals into our soft space…
Dread. Fear. Fault. Guilt. Grief. Angst. Ire. Wrath. Woe. Shame.
a sharp intake, a tiny twitch, a fret
in dream, in memory, the insect creeps,
intending to lay eggs, but you reclaim
our peace and send the spindle-legged threat
away with a growl, a clutch. Our love still sleeps.
Re: Quiet comfort, Italian sonnet, The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky, Gen, POV Nicky
Date: 2021-04-03 12:54 am (UTC)Re: Quiet comfort, Italian sonnet, The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky, Gen, POV Nicky
Date: 2021-04-03 01:17 am (UTC)Re: Quiet comfort, Italian sonnet, The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky, Gen, POV Nicky
Date: 2021-04-03 03:32 am (UTC)Re: Quiet comfort, Italian sonnet, The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky, Gen, POV Nicky
Date: 2021-04-03 04:15 am (UTC)QUIET COMFORT, Acrostic poem, Charlie Bone Universe, Julia Ingledew/Paton Yewbeam
Date: 2021-04-04 03:27 am (UTC)Undulating endlessly
Intimate and cool
Easy going
Tranquil
Come into my library
Open the door
Make yourself comfortable
Forget your worries
Only happiness may enter here
Recharge to not overcharge
True love
"Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-06 07:29 am (UTC)In the mist, beneath the sun
While the foaming rivers run
Here we sit. Just you and me
Together now beyond the sea
No dim Halls or parlous strands
No more Oath with cruel demands
The moon shines silver on your face
With braided gold our hands enlace
New doth rise Beleriand
Renewed together we now stand
Arms do comfort, hearts entwine
Touch as sweet as honey wine
Reed-mace grows, the lapwings cry
We lie beneath the starry sky
No riddle this, no shadowed doom
Enduring peace and breathing room
Until the Second Music sounds
In fierce contentment love abounds
This owes it's existence to Bunn's Lands, Lords and Ladies, lost beyond the Sea and can be read as & or /.
Re: "Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-06 08:47 am (UTC)Re: "Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-06 02:30 pm (UTC)Re: "Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-06 03:19 pm (UTC)Re: "Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-07 02:33 pm (UTC)Re: "Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-18 03:30 am (UTC)Re: "Afterwards, in Quiet Comfort" -- Silmarillion, Fingon & Maedhros
Date: 2021-04-18 07:13 am (UTC)