Fannish 50 #31: Moon

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I don't suppose it's unusual to be 'fannish' about the moon. After all, it's where the word 'lunatic' comes from.

Last night in North America, it was a blue supermoon, meaning the brightest full moon and the second full moon of a calendar month. Ours was kind of smudgy with clouds, but I made a point of looking at it (and being very disappointed when at first the cloud cover was too thick to see it). One of my week 1 fandom empire powerball prompts is Moon so I wrote a poem (a rondeau). Also, in the chat room of my BTS In the Seom phone game, I am meeting a lot of Indonesian ARMY (BTS fans are called ARMY) and we chatted about the supermoon (I don't even know if it was supermoon in Indonesia) and she spontaneously composed a poem in Bahasa Indonesian. I quickly copied it down and give the google translate underneath. I was really touched. She said the poem was for me.

There are plenty of great songs about moons in all genres. I've ficced with moon themes a lot (especially werewolf AUs but 3 years ago story_works did a moon theme flash challenge).



that moon by okapi

like every poet in ewe’s clothing before me
soft sheepish eyes draw up to twilight’s skies and see;
like tender, wooly souls, those, before and after,
who dare to be inspired by craft, this crude crafter
attempts, like all the rest, to word-weave faithfully

that moon. since first silver leaf of primeval sea
stirred elemental yen to pen first lunacy,
so I sink to commonplace, the hackneyed drafter,
like every poet

pale tuft set against dark nap, what words could ever be
enough? I try, I sigh, I strain poetically,
not ‘bright’ not ‘round’ not ‘full.’ skeins of scornful laughter
unravel. these words, they’re not enough. sought-after
stitch drops but I knit on, knit worn inanity,
like every poet

moon poem by pio

bulan melihat mu adalah anugrah menyapaikan rasa tenang di malam hari

bulat mu indah di kejauhan sinar terang mu indah di kegelapan

[the moon seeing you is a gift conveying a sense of calm at night /
your round is beautiful in the distance, your bright light is beautiful in the darkness]



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Fannish 50 #2: Many Fandoms - Fannish Items I Own
Fannish 50 #3: Agatha Christie
Fannish 50 #4: Museums
Fannish 50 #5: Hard Boiled Detectives
Fannish 50 #6: Steampunk
Fannish 50 #7: Facial sheet masks.
Fannish 50 #8: J-hope of BTS
Fannish 50 #9: Collage materials
Fannish 50 #10: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50 #11: Inspector Rebus
Fannish 50 #12: Postcards
Fannish 50 #13: Jigsaw Puzzles
Fannish 50 #14: Holmesian Poetry
Fannish 50 #15: Miniature rooms
Fannish 50 #16: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50 #17: The ocean
Fannish 50 #18: Audiobooks
Fannish 50 #19: The Tuesday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
Fannish 50 #20: Chocolate
Fannish 50 #21: BVM
Fannish 50 #22: Bees & honey
Fannish 50 #23: Agust D/SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50 #24: BTS
Fannish 50 #25: Snoopy
Fannish 50:#26: Detective Kosuke Kindaichi by Seishi Yokomizo
Fannish 50 #27: Jimin of BTS
Fannish 50 #28: The language of flowers
Fannish 50 #29: Tea
Fannish 50 #30: Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers
Fannish 50 #31: Moon