Oh happy day, and a wonderful challenge...

[fajrdrako]

Everyone knows how I like poetry-based slashfic.

I am thrilled to see that isagel and lyra_sena have posted a challenge to write e.e.cummings-based Smallville fic.

I am so excited - what a great challenge!

Can I write more than one story?

I've instantly gone searching for cummings poetry on the Net. I found anyone lived in a pretty how town and Buffalo Bill's and the following:

the cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls (which might be one of my favourite titles ever)
Chansons Innocentes: I - this one is new to me
i sing of Olaf glad and big
maggie and milly and molly and may
my father moved through dooms of love
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r, which would be difficult to do, but not impossible, never impossible
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
Spring is like a perhaps hand
why must itself up every of a park

Then there are a whole bunch of his poems here and here including some of my favourites like next to of course god america and i like my body when it is with your body.

This feels so wonderful self-indulgent, just looking at cummings poems and rereading them. Such wonderful lines, like:

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

or:

I will bring you every year

something which is worth the whole,
an inch of nothing for your soul.

and:

they believe in Christ and Longfellow,both dead

What a brilliant man he was, and I really don't know much about him.

Smallville and cummings - two of my favourite things together. Thank you, lyra_sena and isagael!

Comments

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

yes! write as many as you like! yay!

thanks for providing all those links to the poems. you're awesome. *hugs*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My pleasure - honestly. Thanks for giving me a reason to read cummings again!

[rivier.livejournal.com]

My favourite ee cummings since, o, forever?

wild(at our first)beasts uttered human words
--our second coming made stones sing like birds--
but o the starhushed silence which our third's


And I honestly don't know why I love it so.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Probably because it sounds beautiful, among other things. 'o the starhushed silence'. That's... remarkable. Not just beautiful, but full of meaning too, and not just unilateral, obvious meaning but evocation and implication. I liked the way he puts things together that are contrasting, like words/silence and stone/birds, beasts/human.