Prompts for My Final Challenge

[smallhobbit]

For my final challenge in the year of challenges, I shall be looking for help from my flist.

moth2fic  wrote in my original challenge post "You enjoy writing and trying new formats etc. Have you tried poetry? Not everyone is the next Wordsworth (thank goodness) but something like haiku could be interesting to investigate - either as totally original reactions to the nature you see in your photographs, or as short responses to things in the lives of e.g. Mouselet."

So, flist, now's the chance.  Please prompt me with poetic form (and if you chose something very complicated you may well be disappointed, or I shall revert to doggerel) plus a subject, be it fandom, pairing, prompt words, or any combination.

The first verse will go up at the beginning of April and I'll see how far through the month I get.

Comments

[dariaw]

A sonnet for any historical RPF

or

a limerick or love poem that Lucas writes to Adam

[smallhobbit]

A sonnet may be a real challenge, but I'm sure Lucas can write something for Adam.

[smallhobbit]

Tudor Kings & Queens: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14170932/chapters/32760855

[smallhobbit]

Lucas too has been busy, a limerick and then a love poem: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14170932/chapters/32977008

[alisanne]

I'm absolutely sure Severus would love a limerick from Harry. ;)

[smallhobbit]

In which case, Severus shall have one :D

[smallhobbit]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14170932/chapters/32785860

[grondfic]

A love-poem from Greg Hicks' Richard III to Lady Anne (or Buckingham if you'd prefer)

[smallhobbit]

Ooh, now that is a challenge! I'll enjoy that. Possibly more than Lady Anne does. Although I'm rather tempted by Buckingham too.

[grondfic]

I was rather tempted by Buckingham too!

[smallhobbit]

Buckingham won! https://archiveofourown.org/works/14170932/chapters/32812317

[grondfic]

I'm very glad he did!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[smallhobbit]

Since I saw two versions of Richard III within a month, it seemed only fair to let both have a go, so this time have Toby Manley as the king, wooing Lady Anne: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14170932/chapters/32929395

[grondfic]

Interestingly different! Looks like Manley's Richard might have been a bit more human than Hicks'(?)

[smallhobbit]

Manley's Richard exhibited a lot of glee at his schemes - he was clearly revelling in the trouble he was stirring. And he played it as if to take the audience into his confidence 'I know I'm bad, and you know I'm bad'.

[grondfic]

So, when he says in his love-poem that he's kinda empathising with her feelings (before asking her to 'move on' sharpish), we should imagine him winking at the audience?

[smallhobbit]

Exactly that. In the play Richard was smiling at his plans, and I was smiling too, because he was so gleefully awful. Toby Manley looked round the audience, saw me grinning like a fool and grinned back at me - a magic moment.

[grondfic]

It's a great great moment when that happens, isn't it?

Anyway, thanks for so comprehensively dealing with my prompt; two lovely Rhymes Royal with contrasting Richards.

[smallhobbit]

It was my pleasure.

[moth2fic]

A haiku from Thorin to Bilbo (has to be really short and capable of being attached to a raven...)

[smallhobbit]

Ooh, excellent!

[smallhobbit]

And here it is: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14170932/chapters/33053862

[moth2fic]

Lovely! I left a comment on the Archive, too. Thank you!