Top Five Poems!

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

sobsister wrote Rhymes with Luck about Wrecked.
elision of the word/the one you wish you heard

sylviavolk2000 wrote The Gift. Stocking stuffer, hot off the press! Run! Run!
Oh, yeah. Even Buffy had heard of Gurnenthar the Good Demon, the Green One -
who would ascend from demon into human form.

tkp wrote Prerequisites: "To kill this girl, you have to love her."
You must understand her wrists, her pulse-point wrists, murderous wrists./Broken, they'd scent the air like cinnamon sticks.

trixiefatcat wrote Last Summer's Corn. Riley as I love him.
Your breath frosts on the metal/Of the dull blue gun barrel./It’s nothing like what you left/Locked up in the armory/Back in southern California./Or at least that’s as much/As you can tell the home folks.

macha3 and Fallowdoe wrote quicken: wedding song. This link doesn't go to one neat little final draft of a poem. Instead, I've linked to the whole conversation between Fallowdoe, who's writing the third volume of her luminous Spiegel im Spiegel trilogy (post-apocalyptic post-Gift AU featuring Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Tara; read it ASAP if you haven't already!) and macha, whom she's commissioned for some songs. It's interesting to read them hashing it out through a couple of drafts, and then the whole chapter at the end. That particular chapter serves as a brilliant teaser for the rest of the work. The page says 2005, but I'm pretty sure it was released to public view in '06.
spread in the hayloft and wasting the seed/only sensation replaces the sun/tasting of honey and smelling of bleed/skirting the heart of things coming undone

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Cool! More poetry. Thanks for posting.

[yourlibrarian]

Oh nice. Glad you put this list together.

[behrbemine.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I do not often read poetry, out of a frustration of not being able to write or properly understand it. But these pieces of art here... they were more than just poems. They meant more to me. The understanding I gathered was understanding enough. And I thank you for making such a list to point me to the kind of reading that most of the time, I tend to avoid. It was an enlightening and memorable experience.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Fannish poetry makes me HAPPY. I'm so glad you got something good out of these examples. I saw that you left feedback for the poets, too, which is the vital part. Thanks. :)

[behrbemine.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I make a point to always comment on anything I read. :)

Thanks again.

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks! I was wondering where this fb was flowin' in from! I'm marking this because I know I didn't read at least two...and I've been meaning to try stuff by macha forever. Thanks so much, both for the rec of me and well, for me, the recs of others ;o)

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

If you want to investigate macha, forget this and head straight for "descant descending," which I linked on my fic kinks post. Just read chapter 1 and see what you think. In some ways, your style reminds me of hers.