Entries tagged with challenge: 2019

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Pocahontas Fic: Much to Gain (Nakoma/Pocahontas, Kocoum/Namontack)

Title: Much to Gain
Author:

rebecca_selene
Word Count: 1,068
Fandoms: Pocahontas
Characters/Pairings: Nakoma/Pocahontas, Kocoum/Namontack
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters and situations do not belong to me.
Summary: A potentially disastrous crossing of paths turns into an opportunity.
Notes: On AO3 and on DW. written for my

poetry_fiction 2019 prompt from Evensong by Tishani Doshi:
But it is nothing—
this song of our communion
Less than what the animals share
as they walk to the riverbank in slow repair

stopping to lick each other's wounds

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July Challenge - Day 31

From Understanding My Fate in a Mexican Museum

I may never hold creation in my skin
but I will always dream it.

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July Challenge - Day 30

From Strong Men, Riding Horses

Treacherous as they are,
we must encounter these phantoms, desert-eyed.

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July Challenge - Day 29

from My Grandmother Never Ate a Potato in Her Life

We are in the house alone together
and it is everything I've ever feared.

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July Challenge - Day 28

From Everyone Loves a Dead Girl

Truly, they believe themselves when they say,
the world is a forest, darling, remember the bread crumbs,

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July Challenge - Day 27

From How to be Happy in 101 Days

Set out into
the world and prepare to be horrified.

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July Challenge - Day 26

From Girls are coming out of the Woods

Girls are coming
out of the woods, clearing the ground
to scatter their stories.

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July Challenge - Day 25

from The Leather of Love

I pour light through my hands to make
brass, a bell, something to lure you from
your hiding place

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July Challenge - Day 24

From Tranås

I want to hitch a ride to another life.

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July Challenge - Day 23

from O Great Beauties!

a quiet wood
outside the town, with a banquet
in a field of belladona?

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July Challenge - Day 22

From Rain at Three

This is how desire works:
splintering first, then joining.

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July Challenge - Day 21

From Poem for a Dead Dog

This isn't about resisting,
but about longing

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July Challenge - Day 20

From Encounters With a Swedish Burglar

I waited for the soft click of the door,
a lover's footsteps.

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July Challenge - Day 19

From Saturday on the Scores

In the graveyard, one of you talks
of fire, how the soul must be endless.

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July Challenge - Day 18

from Contract

I will fade backwards into the future
and tell you what I see.

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July Challenge - Day 17

from Moonson Poem

So much of monsoon is to do
with being overcome —not from longing
as you might think,

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July Challenge - Day 16

from To My First White Hairs

Being a woman has its challenges
as you know, and if you're
power hungry, all the more so.

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July Challenge - Day 15

From Evensong

you'll have chanted our promise
of togetherness
repeated it like hollows worn in stone

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July Challenge - Day 14

From Homeland

If the dead could speak,
would they ask for us:

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July Challenge - Day 13

From After the Dance

Those who knew you,
who are still filled with astonishment,
stand at the gate and say, She was everywhere.