The Poetry Comment-athon
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earlgreytea68The Poetry Comment-athon
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dollsome , with some modifications. In acknowledgment of the fact that April is both National Poetry Month AND, according to a very famous poem by my favorite poet, the cruellest month, I present the following:
Rules
01. Here's how it goes -- comment with a fandom, a pairing or character, and a line (or a few lines) from a poem that you associate with them. For example:
Doctor Who - The Tenth Doctor - I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, / And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid. ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot)
You can also include the poem's title and author if you'd like, so people who aren't familiar with it can get to know some new poets/poems.
02. In its original iteration, this was a ficathon. So, if you see anything in the comments that inspires you, feel free to write some fic in response (and to put either the fic itself or a link to it in the comments). However, there's no fic requirement, and no guarantee your poem will get a fic. I don't want there to be pressure, I just want us to have fun with poems! (And, by extension, our fandoms.)
03. Be nice, have fun, love poems! :)
I stole this from
dollsome , with some modifications. In acknowledgment of the fact that April is both National Poetry Month AND, according to a very famous poem by my favorite poet, the cruellest month, I present the following: Rules
01. Here's how it goes -- comment with a fandom, a pairing or character, and a line (or a few lines) from a poem that you associate with them. For example:
Doctor Who - The Tenth Doctor - I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, / And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid. ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot)
You can also include the poem's title and author if you'd like, so people who aren't familiar with it can get to know some new poets/poems.
02. In its original iteration, this was a ficathon. So, if you see anything in the comments that inspires you, feel free to write some fic in response (and to put either the fic itself or a link to it in the comments). However, there's no fic requirement, and no guarantee your poem will get a fic. I don't want there to be pressure, I just want us to have fun with poems! (And, by extension, our fandoms.)
03. Be nice, have fun, love poems! :)
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Date: 2011-04-02 06:07 am (UTC)In the context of the poem, this quotation is more about the anger that we don't express and how it eats at us...but whenever I read it, I think about how the things we don't say - angry or not - eat at us, too.
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Date: 2011-04-04 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-03 02:02 am (UTC)thanks!
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Date: 2011-04-04 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-03 04:24 am (UTC)I praise the tender flower
That on a mournful day
Bloomed in my garden bower
And made the winter gay.
Its loveliness contented
My heart tormented.
- Robert Bridges
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Date: 2011-04-04 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-03 04:25 am (UTC)This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world,
which is round but not flat and has more colors
than we can see.
It begins, it has an end,
this is what you will
come back to, this is your hand.
- Margaret Atwood
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Date: 2011-04-04 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-04 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-05 02:53 am (UTC)