No, you’re right, it isn’t Friday. I’m gonna rec some stuff anyway.
(Besides, the not-at-all-mediocre-or-self-indulgent humor of “Fic Rec Fridays with RonsGirlFriday” is lost while I’m using my temporary Fairyland alias anyway.)

How about some...

   Poetry Recs 

lingering darkness by @viking grumpy fox

Sometimes I read free verse/ open form poetry and I like it; sometimes it kinda sounds like word salad; and sometimes it’s just stunning.
Kris’s poetry is stunning. It’s dark and visceral, rhythmic and evocative, blunt and thought-provoking.
“two bad girls” currently lives rent-free in my head.
(Also, she has written 45 so far… and is still going?? maybe?? How???)

dance a roundelay by @Unotterable

Noelle has an amazing way with words, and her poetry is no exception. This is a collection of various forms of poetry, all connected thematically and presented in a creative, engaging format: as poems written by Augusta Longbottom (née Crequer) in her personal journal at Hogwarts! They tell the story of her romance with Arcturus Longbottom, as well as a Quidditch-related feud between Slytherin and Gryffindor (with some disastrous results for Minerva McGonagall!)

My Noble Lineage and The Thestrals Go to London by @Oregonian

Vicki has quite a skill with the technical aspects of poetry in various forms and I’d recommend checking out any of her stuff, but in particular I wanted to highlight these two:
“My Noble Lineage” is a sestina, which uses the same 6 words at the ends of various lines but in a different, prescribed order in each verse — I can’t even imagine the amount of thought and planning that must go into being able to pull that off.
“The Thestrals Go to London” is a cheeky, witty thing in iambic pentameter about a couple of Muggle lads who get sloshed after their friend’s wake and then stumble across some thestrals and are… understandably… a bit disturbed.

Deathly Poetry by @mydearfoxy

Blackout poetry! It’s truly an art, and Renee has such a way with it.
The poems she creates from various pages of Deathly Hallows are incredible. It’s so fun to see how she extracts and arranges bits of the source text to explore and create new meanings. The poems feel organic, as if she’d just written them that way and not been bound by the words on a given page.
Between this and the few blackout poetry challenges that ran on the forums last year, I’m feeling inspired to try my hand at a collection of my own!  

If you check out any of these, please let me know your thoughts! Or tell me about some of your favorite poems on the archives!