Poetry Slam 1: Haiku for You

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Thank you to everyone for their kind words and feedback on my short passionate R-rated love vignette. Thanks to the awesome feedback (and seriously amazing shout-out from clionona: I'm so not worthy, babe!), I am much less terrified of wading into the charged R!waters.

But first up, so you all don't lose all respect for me, ha ha, some quasi-serious verse.  fieryrogue was, for a variety of reasons, recently demanding Cookleta haiku, which I haven't written since first year high school.  My poetry muse (Calliope?) struggled with the kind of weird, too-brief poetic form (three lines: 5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again), until I realised the haiku was supposed to be meant for the awesome band of Cookleta fanfic writers and cheerleaders - addressed to their amazing, talented fic and words.

And, accordingly,my muse addresses fieryrogue, slashophile's gorgeous No Fate But Your Own Fate, lire_casander's epic Reaching for the Stars, clionona's Thirst, storylandqueen 's Barriers!fic,  rajkumari905's hilarious, hot In(Sobriety), motherendurance's mammoth Oceanic Descent,  epicflailer's As Old As Rhyme, hopefulgenius' the minor fall, irishdf  and magickaldreamer.

ETA: Added a haiku for maimiejay's awesome Suburbia!

You girls are just the best. Anyone else similarly drawn to the haiku slam, I would be so delighted if you were to post your offerings! Or, of course, if anyone wants a haiku - for themselves or their own fic, or someone else's, I would be happy to oblige.

Title: Haiku for You:
Pairing: The Davids
Rating: From G to PG-13 (kind of difficult to make R haiku, yk)

Haiku For You



(For Bobbie)

Impermanence

Cook thinks he's found love
with a kiss on the neck
he loses himself 

*
(For Britts)

no fate but

you know this is fate
when love catches you off-guard
like an avalanche

* 
(For Maria)

reach for this

"It may kill you, Cook."

"I need to do this, for him.
Sing my song with me?"

*
(For B, and VampCook!)

undead things

The boy smiles, so brave,
And his dead heart beats again.

"Cook, I'm not afraid."

* 
(For CL)

barriers

You're leaving? Oh, then
hold me tonight, one last time:
and never again.

*
(For Pri)

Sober

David makes a plan:
pretends to be drunk so that
Cook will make him his.

* 
(For Renata)

Descent

Tethys swims the deep
And gifts one soul with her song -
- Cook is mesmerized.

*
(For Nat)

As Old as Time

Librarian, lost;
Trapped by a reluctant Beast -
Beauty's saved by Love.

* 
(For Meggie) 

lift, and fall

you slam the door, and
sit with your head in your hands.
(baby, please come back.)

*
(For Dee)

The Universe Points Here

Giving in to love:
This is where it all begins.
You, and no one else.

*

(For Robyn)

Music

David loves to sing:
Makes music, when making love.
Cook loves to listen.

*
Edited to add: (For Penrith)

No Escape From This

Action: put your hand
against this, my deepest self.
Feel my reaction.

*
(For Amy)

Beneath The Flowers

Wisteria Lane:
Where lives a beautiful boy.
Cook loses his heart.

*fin*

*

Edited Further to Add: This is for conditionelle's amazingly written Kradamfic, In the Mirror of Invention. Woman, in my dreams, I write like you.


(For Conditionelle)

le passe simple

Leaving her behind:
From major, a simple shift
to minor falling.

x
*fin*

 

Comments

Re: ILOVE YOUR HAIKU!!!

[motherendurance.livejournal.com]

I think between this haiku, my story, and the stack of books on the matriarchal Goddess-based traditions, old and new, from around the world, I am becoming a real live Goddess worshiper.

Perhaps I am slightly too invested in my story?

As Hilma Wolitzer says, "Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language."

And this, I love this... it feels so true to me,

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, in an undated letter to his daughter.

Oh and you, you evil girl, you have gotten me hooked (lined and sunk) by Guy Gavriel Kay.

I am reading (devouring) "The Lions Of Al-Rassan", and Holy Muses, is it ever fabulous.

I LOVE Jehane. I want to BE Jehane. Or, failing that, Miranda...

((((Jehane)))
~Renata

PS. Tethys is my favourite as well:-) But don't tell the other Divine Aspects of the Goddess, or they might get pissed off at me...

Re: ILOVE YOUR HAIKU!!!

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Darling, you totally need to love you some GGK. The man is one of Canada's best historical fantasy writers! I love and want to be Jehane too, and thanks to the magical interface of the internets, I appropriate her guise (and borrow some of her steadiness, and courage).

And, one can never be too invested in one's story, lol. I am so waiting for 16, my dear!