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It's been a good Sunshine Challenge. I enjoyed the colour prompts very much. In keeping with the suggestion in the original post, I am offering an English sonnet to anyone who wants one. Give me a prompt [e.g., a color, maybe one not covered in the challenge, pink, grey, brown, etc. or a shade, e.g., dark turquoise; or a fruit; or an image; or a fandom, see mine on AO3] and I will do my best to get you 14 lines of iambic pentameter by August 30. Ta!


Blackberries

blackberries by okapi

on vines, plump blackberries hang heavy, low
along an ant-hilled road, fat honeybees
crisscross, drunk-dance in circles, steady, slow
through swollen, hot-hazy, late summer ease

worn bucket fills, plump fingers, lips are stained
hard sun twists into blisters, ancient thorns
hook, snag, cake-thick air innervated, drained
distorts all but sharps tips which fruit adorns

fine trickle of sweat, wide swipe of rolled sleeve
dark purple trove collected, fetched away
for rich dessert while more are left to cleave
on brambling vines, hanging heavy, stray

how faded far-off is the memory
of blackberries’ late summer husbandry

And grapes! They're called 'red' and 'black' but they look purple to me!

grapes

grapes and pearls (3800 words) by okapi
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Dirty Talk, Fluff and Smut, Post-Rome, Scene: Kingdom of Wessex 537 AD (Good Omens), Post-Almost Apocalypse (Good Omens), Snake Crowley (Good Omens), Sex with Snake Form Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale doesn't make An Effort, Crowley Has a Penis (Good Omens), grapes, Not beta read we fall like Crowley, Short Chapters, Oysters, POV Alternating
Summary:

Crowley and Aziraphale meet again in Rome, which leads to confessions, tokens, and fluffy sexytimes.

Date: 2020-07-27 04:44 pm (UTC)
smallhobbit: (Holmes Watson grass)
From: [personal profile] smallhobbit
Blackberries is very evocative - and definitely retirement era Holmes/Watson.

Date: 2020-07-27 04:59 pm (UTC)
lunabee34: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lunabee34
Oh that is the poem of summer! Love the bees.

Date: 2020-07-27 09:27 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
The lazy summer vibes of this poems are infectious.

If it inspires, I'd love a fennec fox sonnet (if not, no worries).

Date: 2020-09-08 02:22 am (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
Sorry I was offline for a bit, but I'm excited to pop back on and see this here!

My icon likes your photo

Date: 2020-07-27 09:46 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: white ceramic heart dish full of blueberries (blueberries love)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k

hard sun twists into blisters

will be my punk rock band name, if I ever manage one.

🤍

Date: 2020-07-28 02:26 am (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (rainbow heart)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman

I'm fond of those hard to definite in-between colors like heliotrope or chartreuse or teal. Pick your favorite!

Date: 2020-07-28 11:13 am (UTC)
paulamcg: Sun rising behind barren land's lonely baobab tree (sunshine)
From: [personal profile] paulamcg
What a delicious post! The vivid detail in the poem is amazing. The combinations of your words don't only sound of summer, but also taste in the mouth like summer.

Date: 2020-07-28 10:13 pm (UTC)
greerwatson: (Default)
From: [personal profile] greerwatson
Those fruit pix look absolutely delicious.

Date: 2020-07-28 11:00 pm (UTC)
abyss_valkyrie: made by <user name=narnialover7> (Default)
From: [personal profile] abyss_valkyrie
Love the poem!How summer-y,the imagery of the rolled up sleeves and sweat trickling,the lazy bees and all of it!<3

Date: 2020-07-31 11:04 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Blackberries and grapes are some of my favorite fruits.

A sonnet? The only things I can think of are Helios and Luna. Maybe platinum as a color, if that works instead?

Date: 2020-08-30 06:13 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
That worked wonderfully. Thank you for writing it!

Date: 2020-07-31 11:28 pm (UTC)
bemused_writer: Delighted woman (Amir)
From: [personal profile] bemused_writer
Blackberries and grapes are excellent berries and I just loved the poem. I had a clear image!

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