Drabble-poems by Flora-lass  

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Fanwork Notes

Poems of 100 words or under, often (but not always) about death. They're nearly all in the first person; please be warned that there's a lot of grief here.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

All written for SWG instadrabbling sessions/prompts. Updated in October 2026 with Ambarussa, and Firiel.

Major Characters: Morwen, Túrin, Beleg, Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli, Fëanor, Voronwë, Maeglin, Aredhel, Amrod, Amras, Fíriel (Gondor)

Major Relationships: Beleg/Túrin, Gimli/Legolas, Morwen & Túrin, Aredhel & Maeglin, Amras & Amrod, Arvedui/Fíriel

Genre: Poetry

Challenges:

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Character Death

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Chapters: 9 Word Count: 851
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An abundance of Fs, in memory of Fëanor. The prompt was a picture of pink flowers (called fireweed) in a burnt landscape.

Gimli rides behind Legolas, and dreams. For the prompt:

Your shoulder blade, your spine, were shorelines in the moonlight

New worlds for the weary, new lands for the living

Túrin mourns Beleg. For the prompts: 

silence, thunder, guilt, secrets

A new grief opened inside me like an umbrella

All my books are lying useless now, all my maps will only show me how to lose my way

Morwen watches Túrin sleep, after Lalaith's death. The prompts were:

loved, still, gleaming, gold

We walk the hillside like lost souls in the night

Grief will teach you new names

Voronwë on the shore. For the prompts:

night, risk, old, fate  and

I stand amid the roar of a surf-tormented shore

Maeglin's hopeless love. For the prompts:

pleasure, noble, fire, eyes

There's a hole in my pocket where my dreams fell through

Wintering with snow / That did not melt / It fell long ago / At night, by stealth

Aredhel is dying, and thinking about Maeglin.

For the prompts: 

guilt, law, soon, worry  and I closed my eyes and tarried until the morning light.

For Ambarussa, autumn hurts.

The prompt was an image of a bright autumnal scene, with the description: 'Red, orange and yellow leaves on the forest floor; some are blurred from motion. The background, a path through the forest, is blurred, with the sun setting in the distance.'

Firiel remembers Arvedui. Written using prompts from May 2026, but completed several months later.

winter, bitter, linger, fall

How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter?

And there's a cold, lonely light that shines from you.


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You’re so very, very good at making poems and stories that are liberally mixed with grief and hope, and since that mix is one of my favorite things ever I am always so excited to read your work! You’ve packed a truly impressive amount of references and dynamics into so few words here — the tentative nature of the start of their marriage giving way to genuine and deep affection and love (I’m very glad to have separately read your poem about their first dance together as that added lovely additional depth to the allusion to it here!!!), the foreboding elements of frost  and other hints at the specifics of Arvedui’s fate (“frost at bay” oh noooo!), and Firiel becoming the crucial origin of the whole line that was sheltered in Imladris until eventually Aragorn arrived to help right the world and avenge his ancestors. It’s all so, so good! And I love the choice for it to be Arvedui’s laughter that is living on in his heirs — we don’t think of them as a particularly joyful group, but the capacity to find and appreciate moments of joy is critical to sustaining hope so it seems like a very fitting element of him to highlight. (Plus it’s very comforting to think of Arvedui as having had lots of opportunity in his life to laugh such that the sound of that echoing laughter is a distinctive element of him to Firiel.) This super short form has got to be SO hard to work with but you do it so well!