Thursday is Verse Day: free verse, Arthur/Eames, Rating: Teen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

minutia_r is hosting a Multifandom Poery fest. There are plenty of any/any prompts if you don't know the fandoms. I did this fill for the prompt 'zephyr' with an Inception Arthur/Eames one.

Title: The zephyr in the old hotel
Fandom: Inception
Rating: Teen
Poetic form: free verse
Length: 183
Prompt: zephyr
Inspired by: these images of old hotels.

a ribbon breeze curls through the old hotel
this place, a perpendicular study
in shades of olive, beige, and coffee stain
full vacancy fills retro corridors

a zephyr, darling, check your thesaurus
it’s only a dream, you are but a piece
a period piece, like chrome and leather
and polished wood, and patterns on carpet

you’re a piece, too, Eames, a real piece of work!
and comparing me to hideous shag
in dull designs isn’t the flattery
you think it is—if you’re thinking at all!

a hideous shag? not an accusation
I’d ever level at you, one who won’t
waste a slim ounce of creativity
on our clandestine dreamscape rendezvous

why be clever when you can just be good?
why be charming when you can be polite?
the unobtrusive sunlight filters in,
making polished Oxfords shine handsomely

this merry chase is becoming tiresome
when will this world-weary expatriate
be reunited with his favourite
stick-in-the mud? Arthur, where are you?

I’m early, as usual, and you’re late
as always, follow the breeze, it’ll lead you

it’s a zephyr, darling, oh, there you are

Comments

[dr_zook]

How absolutely gorgeous! ♥ I really like the dialogue thing going on, the shag wordplay (of course, haha), and especially it’s only a dream, you are but a piece / a period piece, like chrome and leather / and polished wood. Very good!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Do you know Arthur & Eames? I like them so much. I wish they'd had more of that film. I really like Inception. Yes, the American/British use of shag is fun and I thought I could see them meeting up for a tryst in their dreams at a hotel like the ones in the photos.

[dr_zook]

I'm a huge sucker for Arthur/Eames, in fact! I loved Inception as well: fabulous character designs, but I'll never claim to have understood what the fuck was going on, haha. And they definitely met for trysts in dreamscape, ha.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh, yay! That's another thing we have in common. I love that movie.