Gensokyo Festival 2018 Prompt Fills

by Aardvark123

A collection of one-shots and poems about a whole variety of characters in a boatload of different situations. These stories were originally written back in February, so most of them will have been improved a little since their inception.

7. Day 8: ZUN's Music CDs

~Odes from the Sapphic Sealing Club~

Dreaming dreams of bright sunlit forests so sweet
Nightmare youkai won't leave her cow'ring in bed
Hospice beds she will be confined to. I fear
Maribel fears none.

Mind of strings, long vectors an' quantum physics
In a bold, pure-hearted explorer who loves
Mysteries. She longs for the answers to all
None more than my heart.

Maribel loves flowers and puddle-splashing
Empty worlds can't empty her heart of love, truth
Sadness, curiosity, all true feelings.
I wish I felt so.

Renko scales trees, kicks all our foes with thick boots
Never quivers, never lets fear come over
Me or any. I want to fight with such strength
No-one could hurt us.

Two young women trapped in a world where all love
Seems to lie in history, dead like Shakespeare
Too unscientific to grace the new age.
Sod that. You go, girls!

~Author's Note~

Of all the stuff I wrote for this year's Gensokyo Festival, this Sapphic ode could well be the poem I am most proud of. It was written from the perspectives of Renko and Maribel, if that wasn't clear, with the last one being from an outside observer.