Sunshine Challenge: Violet

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

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 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 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.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Blackberries is very evocative - and definitely retirement era Holmes/Watson.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much! They are a favourite fruit of mine and in season, so relatively cheap and good.

[lunabee34]

Oh that is the poem of summer! Love the bees.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!

[enemytosleep]

The lazy summer vibes of this poems are infectious.

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

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

I googled the fennec fox! What a great looking creature! And African! Very cool. I shall let it percolate.

Thanks so much for all your support. I read some of your entries, too. I was struck by your mention of combat sport/martial arts and being sort of in-between passions, and that resonated with me very much. People talk a lot about going after your goals/desires but there isn't much talk about when one goes away and another hasn't arrived yet. I definitely feel as if I've been in limbo (in many ways) for a very long time.

Anyway, thanks again for modding! I enjoyed the challenge. And I shall let you know when the fennec fox sonnet is up.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I like this animal a lot. Here is the sonnet: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/120547.html

[enemytosleep]

Sorry I was offline for a bit, but I'm excited to pop back on and see this here!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yea!

My icon likes your photo

[jesse_the_k]

hard sun twists into blisters

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

Re: My icon likes your photo

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha! That's brilliant! I shall buy a front row ticket to your show! And that's a fabulous icon. And your icon has good taste. Hurrah for summertime fruit! And I grew up in South Carolina where summer heat (and humidity) is infernal!

🤍

[oldtoadwoman]

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

Re: 🤍

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ok! Poet always likes a bit of license. Will ponder it a bit and pick one.

Re: 🤍

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I went with turquoise. Hope you like it: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/121406.html

[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.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw. Thanks for the lovely comment. I am glad you liked the poem. I like your icon a lot.

[greerwatson]

Those fruit pix look absolutely delicious.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!!

[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

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!! I am glad you liked the poem!!

[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?

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, I like them, too.

Ok! I will think about those as prompts (all three).

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Here it is:
https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/121911.html

I interpreted platinum as a kind of sun-kissed silver. I hope that works.

[silveradept]

That worked wonderfully. Thank you for writing it!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

You are very welcome! I enjoyed the prompt!

[bemused_writer]

Blackberries and grapes are excellent berries and I just loved the poem. I had a clear image!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked the poem.