Category Archives: Poetry

365 Challenge: History Lesson on the Night Train

This entry is part 26 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

History Lesson on the Night Train

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters/Pairing: Alya Shamayes, Pieter
Prompt: Also curious about the whole background of the specials.
Rating: T
Notes:

So I was reading too much in Poetry Magazine and this first line came into my mind—then kept going.


she was old, her lines were tired, but her eyes were bright— / to ask what it is, this marking down of history / like stainless steel tines pressed down into meat

   
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365 Challenge: Time, Love, and Scars

This entry is part 17 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

Two drabbles, a double-drabble, and a poem. Thanks for the prompts, y'all! Keep 'em coming.

Scarred

Canon: Alliance
Characters/Pairing: Hayley Lamar, Kade Broussard
Prompt: not in love
Rating: T
Notes:

So I hadn’t meant for this to be so depressing and horrible, but um… There it is in black and white—the reason Hayley is the way she is.


She's not in love. Really.

Hayley isn’t the kind of woman to be in denial, but she’s never liked a problem she doesn’t know how to untangle.
Warning: Mentions abuse.

   

Poetry is Fire

Canon: Alliance
Characters/Pairing: Gideon Thompson, Shelley Huntington
Prompt: books
Rating:
Notes:

A double-drabble.


Arsonists aren't supposed to be into literature.

Shelley wants a book; so does the local troublemaker.

   

Ever in Love

Canon: Mirror
Characters/Pairing: Jada, Ever
Prompt: what about love?
Rating:
Notes:

I wanted a plethora of quick drabbles. This is one of the few pieces that didn’t look liked I crammed a short into a flash. It’s also the first finished prose snippet of the world. Yay.


Why did she have to look like she belonged there?

Ever’s friend comes down to his shop, perches on his desk, examines the space station parts he sells. He just wishes she came for him.

   

at my back I always hear


Poem
16 lines
bound by spheres of glass // as the songbirds sing // they growing ever younger
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Poem: Normal written in coffee grounds

Normal written in coffee grounds

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters/Pairing:
Prompt:
Rating:
Notes:

So it took longer to format this than to write it! Ah, well. Inspired by a version of Rachelle and Justus that will never be, as they’ve been commandeered by the Kingdoms and Thorn world. A bit of romance, en brief.


The way you leaned over the bar / foaming milk, whipped and creamed / eyes intense, and called me barista

   
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365 Challenge: The Unmaking

This entry is part 10 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

The Unmaking

Canon: Mirror
Characters/Pairing: Sylfen
Prompt: I had a way then losing it all on my own / I had a heart then but the queen has been overthrown ~ "Lights" by Ellie Goulding I had a way then losing it all on my own / I had a heart then but the queen has been
Rating:
Notes:

Drat it, this world’s getting messy. When I first saw the Queen of Heaven, I never imagined she’d end up a poem or that the world would end up being the Mirror, made and remade. Well, I’m sketching my way through this continuity in poetry first, but I expect that prose will follow soon.


Whirled 'round, making and unmaking / Raze, raze heaven 'til it gleams

   
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365 Challenge: watch me dream

This entry is part 9 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

So it's official. My plugin's broken. Not every single new page should be showing up with a More Please! Unless someone's clicking before I can even hit view post!

 

watch me dream

Canon: Mirror
Characters/Pairing:
Prompt: I remember that time that you told me / You said, "Love is touching souls" / Surely you touched mine / 'Cause part of you pours out of me / In these lines from time to time ~ Joni Mitchell
Rating:
Notes:

and time shall be hereafter / writ in heart our souls' provisions / wound, unwound by dreamers sifting

   
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365 Challenge: "The Un-Study" and "How We Write Poetry"

This entry is part 7 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

Something odd happened. Both of these were published to instant More Please! clicks. I'm wondering if my Reaction Buttons plugin is broken. Ah, well. Hope you like these poems.

 

The Un-Study

Canon:
Characters/Pairing:
Prompt: The song Kryptonite, by 3 Doors Down The song Kryptonite, by 3 Doors Down
Rating:
Notes:

Not what I was expecting, but you never know how one thing gets to another.


Knowledge solid, fluid (is) / Unlearning ev'rything.

   

How We Write Poetry

Canon: Vardin
Characters/Pairing: Jhemet out of Calai
Prompt: I am a songbird / Singing out your window / Telling stories in the shade ~ "Songbird" by Katie Herzig I am a songbird / Singing out your window...
Rating:
Notes:

Answer, turn and answer / Then turn the stone again

   
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