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Original: Poem: Au bois dormant

  • Apr. 7th, 2016 at 7:47 PM
Title: Au bois dormant
Fandom: Original
Length: 55 words
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author notes: final line borrowed from Ali Smith's novel Girl Meets Boy
Summary: Some wishes are not meant to be granted.



a hedge of briar
blooms around your castle
heady-sweet with flowers
never seen in this world

and I stand at a loss
knowing I have no sword
to cut my way through
and my kiss could not wake you

turn back, the hedge says,
beautiful, pitiless,
know what you are:
a lass and a lack


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smallhobbit: (butterfly)
[personal profile] smallhobbit wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2016 08:42 pm (UTC)
This is beautiful.
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (louise brooks identity)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2016 10:34 pm (UTC)
Thank you very much!
venturous: (spirit)
[personal profile] venturous wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2016 04:30 pm (UTC)
mmmmm, but I want you to find a way through, regardless.
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2016 08:28 pm (UTC)
thank you! if I do, I'll write about it...
meridian_rose: pen on letter background  with text  saying 'writer' (Default)
[personal profile] meridian_rose wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2016 06:06 pm (UTC)
Nice :)
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2016 01:13 am (UTC)
thank you!
jordannamorgan: Loretta Young. (Loretta Young)
[personal profile] jordannamorgan wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2016 09:07 am (UTC)
Oh, hey! It's awesome to stumble across someone using one of my classic film icons. :D
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2016 10:39 am (UTC)
Thank you for making it! I use it on AO3 as well.
dariaw: Sunflower in foreground, with a sun-drenched field of sunflowers and the horizon in fuzzy focus in the background (Default)
[personal profile] dariaw wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2016 01:15 am (UTC)
lovely!
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2016 09:25 am (UTC)
Thank you!
[personal profile] selenicdistance wrote:
Apr. 19th, 2016 09:43 pm (UTC)
I DIG IT

I nearly passed this over as I was acquainting myself with the more recent fic on this comm-that-I-just-jumped-into, because I lack experience with reading or writing poetry, and worried that I might not get anything out of it, or have anything useful to say! But I am really glad that I clicked that little cut toggle button and checked this business out, because I did, in fact, get something out of it (namely: FEELINGS).

(I don't really have much useful to say, though, other than that this is some beautiful stuff that resonated with me.)

Thank you for writing this and for posting this!
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Apr. 20th, 2016 07:33 pm (UTC)
thank you - I am very glad you gave it a try and that you liked it!

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