Fannish Poetry

[browngirl]

It's [nearly the end of] National Poetry Month, so, inspired by this post by bironic, I thought I'd write a short post about fannish poetry.

Poetry as fan work is a very old tradition: consider 'Homer's Batrachomyomachia', an epic poem about a battle between mice and frogs that parodies the Iliad and was almost certainly not composed by Homer. (Also here in Ancient Greek.)

As for me, I love poetry, but my most poetic fandom has plenty by the author so I didn't think of adding more. I'm glad others thought more imaginatively, such as tigerbright, who wrote a soliloquy for Boromir that breaks my heart in the best ways. petra writes quite a bit of lovely accomplished fannish poetry in many fantoms, including but not limited to limericks and posts in blank verse.

So that's my post, and now, hopefully, for comments!

Comments

[dreamflower]

There were five fannish poems in this month's LOTR Community Challenge: http://lotr-community.livejournal.com/.

I had two entries--one a form I haven't tried before, a humorous form called a "clerihew" and I did a sonnet about Gandalf. The other three were very nice as well!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Augh LJ never sent me this! I will have to go read those! Thank you for telling me. :)

[dreamflower]

*grin* Have fun!