Multifandom Poetry Fest 2023
Jul. 13th, 2023 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Dukat/Sisko (one-sided obsession)
Date: 2023-07-20 06:23 am (UTC)Into this galaxy bitter. Our birthright is struggle and conquest.
I am of warriors born, a proud scion of golden Cardassia,
Glory of empires, brought low to rise again ever and stronger,
You my true enemy. Son of the softness, the waters of Terra,
You stand in nobility equal to any the Guls of my planet.
Each day I plan out my courses, the ways that are plotted to snare you,
To bring you back into my battle, to match once again wits between us.
Plans upon plans do I make them, always you rise to the challenge,
Always I want once again to see and to best and to beat you,
Have you admit my successes. And when you win by your own right,
Graciously do I acknowledge the tactics and might that you offer.
None on the planet below you ever could match me for - -.
Servants are they all, the masses that don’t understand a true soldier.
Cowards, guerillas, and traitors. They never offered a rival.
You, though, are someone respected, someone who’s earned my respect.
I will defeat you one day, yes, but I will then honor you just as
You honor me. We are matchless to others. To us we are matched.
Ever we’re destined to meet, and to challenge and clash and withdraw,
Struggling equally in our equal and opposite war.
You see me. You met me on neutral ground that became the last castle,
Chosen by Prophets or Pah-Wraiths. The Prophets chose you as their emblem,
Champion, vessel, and harbinger of their ultimate planning.
This raised you from your beginnings on your soft planet of swamplands,
Made you a man of the starfields, the cold empty deserts of space.
But we are equals and rivals. I cannot let you precede me
In glory and honor. The power of Prophets you hold in your blood,
And so I will meet you, my rival, my enemy worthy of myself.
Here I beseech to the Pah-Wraiths. Choose me and grant me their power.
Make me their champion, vessel, harbinger of their unfolding.
This is the fate of Cardassia. This is the judgement of Bajor.
This is the balance that has been sought by the forces of battle
Such that I meet you again, now no longer merely a mortal,
But too an emissary. Now we are truly matched as we’ve never
Been so before. See me, Sisko. See me and fight me and meet me
As your true rival and brother in the last battle for glory.
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Written in unrhymed dactylic hexameter, the metrical style of the ancient Greek and Latin epics. Dukat thinks a lot of himself!