Comments | gehayi: Sunnydale-Side Up (BtVS Prose Poem--rated PG)

gehayi

Sunnydale-Side Up (BtVS Prose Poem--rated PG)

Oct 25, 2003 00:14

I'm posting this poem here because Alliterator asked to see it. It's the only thing I managed to come up with for the Halloween BtVS/AtS Lyric Wheel. Basically, it's just Buffy, musing about Halloween, Sunnydale and her life.

( Buffy on Halloween )

halloween, poetry, author: gehayi, stories, buffy

Comments 11

Beautiful! honorh October 24 2003, 22:18:45 UTC

Gorgeous free-form poem. Rhyme is overrated anyway, and wouldn't suit Buffy. This is her in every reminiscence, every turn of phrase. Buffy just drifting off to sleep, perhaps.

Re: Beautiful! gehayi October 25 2003, 07:18:48 UTC

Thanks! I was scared about the voice--I've never written anything in Buffy's voice before and I wasn't sure I'd gotten it right.

alliterator October 24 2003, 22:52:30 UTC

This is fantastic! Not sure why you didn't want to post this for your Lyric Wheel entry (unless you didn't use a part of your lyrics).
Everything about this was perfect, from Buffy not knowing what squamous and batachrian mean, to coals to someplace that has a lot of coals. A perfect Buffy voice.

gehayi October 25 2003, 07:20:01 UTC

Well, as I said above, I wasn't sure I had gotten Buffy's voice right. And I wasn't sure it was poetic enough, if you follow. I'm glad you liked it. Thank you.

sparkfrost October 24 2003, 23:26:59 UTC

i loved it! very characteristic Buffy voice, very moving as well. I love the references. Good work!

gehayi October 25 2003, 07:24:43 UTC

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

anonymous October 24 2003, 23:57:18 UTC

I like this a lot. It sounded very much like Buffy's voice, and I can imagine her sitting on her porch on Halloween night during season 7 thinking this. Nicely written.
Jane

gehayi October 25 2003, 07:25:27 UTC

Thank you, Jane! I'm so glad that you could picture Buffy thinking this.

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gehayi October 25 2003, 07:24:18 UTC

Thank you! A poignant portrait of Buffy what I was trying to achieve, so I'm glad that I succeeded.

It's funny, but now I sympathize with Season Seven Buffy a lot more. Until I started thinking about how relentlessly supernatural Sunnydale was, I didn't realize how exhausting and disorienting her life must have been.