form: poetry

“Intervention” Spaiku, Part 1: Intervention (1/16)

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This entry is part 18 of 33 in the series Spaiku

Here’s my dish for this Spring’s Spuffy potluck: a heapin’ helpin’ of haiku. (Oh, don’t worry about overeating — you’ll be hungry again in an hour!) I’ll be posting throughout the evening until you’re ready to strangle me midnight so as to space out the spammage a little. Many thanks to enigmaticblues for having us all over again and for being such a gracious hostess. You have a lovely home, dear. Also, gratitude of great magnitude to Mister Beta for his invaluable input and for giving me time to write when there seemed to be none. Thanks as well to rebcake for continued encouragement and the always awesome always_jbj for the beautiful banner.

A Spaiku Intervention
by mere_ubu
Genre: Haiku
Syllable count: 1275
Rating: PG-13 for robotic naughtitude
Disclaimer: Spike and Buffy belong to M.E. and never to me. (Um, except in dreams. Then, they’re, like, totally mine. I won’t lie.)
A/N: Here are some Spuffycentric Spaiku caps from BtVS, S5, “Intervention.” Sixteen parts.
Feedback is more refreshing than a margarita on Cinco de Mayo. ::hiccup::
Dedicated with love to mi amigas herself_nyc and philips, just because.

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Bloody Awful Poetry Day 6: Fic: Almost A Sonnet

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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Bloody Awful Poetry Day

To round off my day of contributions, a fic based round writing a poem. It’s not Shakespeare, but I hope it’s a step up from Dawn’s limerick…

Title: Almost A Sonnet
Medum: Fic
Character: Giles (with implied Spuffy)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 750

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Bloody Awful Poetry Day 1: Welcome and Clem’s Clerihews

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This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Bloody Awful Poetry Day

Welcome to Bloody Awful Poetry Day!
Poetry is about reflection, about different ways of seeing and expressing. So, as my contribution to the season, I bring you some Buffyverse characters writing their views of Spuffy. Quite badly, on the whole. (I daren’t attempt haiku, of which there are many distinguished examples, especially some gorgeous Spaiku. But some rarer forms of poetry allow even the worst poets – that would be me – to experiment and have some fun…)

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A (sort of) poem: “Every Night I Save You”

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Thank you to enigmatic_blue for hosting the party!

Author’s notes:
Eep! I’m an hour late — sorry!

This is my first attempt at writing a rhyming poem, specifically a “sestina,” and it kicked my ass. A lot. For those who want to know:
The sestina is a pentameter poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines plus a three-line coda (know as the envoy or envoi). The sestina “rhymes” on six end-words, which must be repeated in each stanza in a controlled order, whereby the last end-word in each stanza becomes the first end-word of the next stanza: abcdef, faebdc, cfdabe, ecbfad, deacfb, bdfeca. The envoi must employ two of the end-words in each of its three lines.
– Helen Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry (p. 603)

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A Limerick!

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Today is my posting day, and I must thank  enigmaticblues for all her hard work in organising this.

I have 2 items to post this time, later I will be posting a one-shot fic, but at this time I am bringing you a poem.

This season of seasonal_spuffy  has a poetry theme. So, my first offering for today is a limerick that I wrote this morning… It is un-beta’d, and my first ever attempt, but I’m going to post it anyway!!

There’s a really great group called Seasonal Spuffy
That’s all about the Slayer called Buffy.
When she ends up with Spike,
Who’s the Vampire we like,
We really do feel warm and fluffy.

 

Originally psoted at http://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/320149.html