Multifandom Poetry Fest 2023
Jul. 13th, 2023 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Welcome to the seventh 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 prompt 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: Are the fills I write considered to be gifts to the prompter?
A: Only if you and the prompter want them to be! Otherwise feel free to treat the prompt simply as inspiration.
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.
Witch Hat Atelier - rules of magic
Date: 2023-07-13 08:37 pm (UTC)We could help, but we may not.
We could heal, but we may not.
We could learn, but we may not.
We could be more, but we may not.
It is forbidden.
Though forbidden, they still heal.
Though forbidden, they still hurt.
Though forbidden, they still scar.
Why must it be so?
no subject
Date: 2023-07-13 08:40 pm (UTC)any, any, seasonal
It is the time the I must start again - Doctor Who Villanelle
Date: 2023-07-13 09:25 pm (UTC)Remake myself with loss and love and light.
I know not who I'll be, just what I've been.
When I shed this life, this face, this skin,
I'll wake as from a long and troubled night –
It is the time the I must start again
Though I may face the mirror with chagrin
Discover – still not ginger – future bright?
I know not who I'll be, just what I've been.
I'll sail the stars, my soul's only captain,
Though my hearts quail with most unwonted fright.
It is the time the I must start again,
And knowing that, and letting go, I'll grin,
And readjust to teeth a shade less white.
I know not who I'll be, just what I've been.
I fear death less than love; despair's a sin
And hope, though fleeting, never will be trite.
It is the time the I must start again
I know not who I'll be, just what I've been.
Sixth Doctor (Who) Haiku
Date: 2023-07-13 09:34 pm (UTC)Cat awakens
with thunderous yawn
Author’s Note: No, it isn’t in the oft-taught 5-7-5 structure, but, as far as English is concerned, that’s not what makes a haiku a haiku.
Re: A Fire Within (original superhero story), Livewire | Connor | ReVolt
Date: 2023-07-14 12:01 am (UTC)Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody,
Editor and Proofreader
no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 12:15 am (UTC)Sweeping away the memories dark,
And lets him leave behind what had been.
Could she sense the dreams he held within,
As on her body he leaves his mark,
With calloused fingers on silken skin?
Meeting her sweet gaze, he gets lost in
The innocence of the meadowlark,
And lets him leave behind what had been.
At her whim alone, his world will spin,
And for her desire, he will embark,
With calloused fingers on silken skin.
His mouth draws his needs across her skin
Pulling out her moans, needy and dark,
And lets him leave behind what had been.
He touches her, and they can begin,
The flame ignites from the newborn spark,
With calloused fingers on silken skin,
And lets him leave behind what had been.
no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 12:29 am (UTC)but I'm not
why do people think of me as a male robot
I'm not
Re: It is the time the I must start again - Doctor Who Villanelle
Date: 2023-07-14 01:00 am (UTC)Re: Any, a poem from a tool - Murderbot Diaries
Date: 2023-07-14 01:04 am (UTC)Now I'm wondering if it ever writes fan poetry for Sanctuary Moon.
no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 01:05 am (UTC)Re: A Fire Within (original superhero story), Livewire | Connor | ReVolt
Date: 2023-07-14 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 02:20 am (UTC)Praise all those who cross
The lines that stuffy folk say “you must never”
Praise those who break the rules
Praise packages that surprise you when you look inside.
Praise the dick and balls
Scrawled in the margin of a stolen book
Praise soft and squishy breasts
Praise Polymorph
Praise Alter Self
Praise all who shift and change
Praise those who never settle down
Praise he and she and they and ey and it
Praise those who after a long journey
Come home, and claim it, saying: this is mine.
Amen.
Re: Critical Role, The Mighty Nein, Mollymauk's grave
Date: 2023-07-14 02:50 am (UTC)Re: A Fire Within (original superhero story), Livewire | Connor | ReVolt
Date: 2023-07-14 02:57 am (UTC)Re: A Fire Within (original superhero story), Livewire | Connor | ReVolt
Date: 2023-07-14 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 04:19 am (UTC)a loose interpretation of a very creative prompt
Date: 2023-07-14 04:29 am (UTC)a dying star breathes life anew:
so too would I breathe for you;
so too would I end and birth galaxies with you.
Changing like seasons, like stars, like
galaxies, galaxies, galaxies...
through it all would I stay here with you.
And maybe I'm only a little old moon
rotating in circles around your vast shape:
inconsequential,
moored,
feeble,
dwarfed—
but the tides cannot lie where even stardust lips may.
no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 04:38 am (UTC)Re: Any, a poem from a tool - Murderbot Diaries
Date: 2023-07-14 05:07 am (UTC)And yeah, that's a really fun idea.
Re: a loose interpretation of a very creative prompt
Date: 2023-07-14 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-14 05:43 am (UTC)Re: It is the time the I must start again - Doctor Who Villanelle
Date: 2023-07-14 05:45 am (UTC)