Trixie Saves the Day
by IceboxFroggie
There once was a mare named Twilight Sparkle
Her rival, Trixie, was better and smarter than her
She could always beat her in a game of Farkle
And Trixie wondered if Twilight was a good kisser
One day, Trixie went to Twilight’s library
It was Twilight’s home, where she lived and slept
And as Trixie entered the sanctuary
She saw Twilight sitting there as she wept
Trixie, being as valiant as she was
Rushed over to her to see the problem
Twilight sniffled, and started her tale, “Because
when you left, I felt bad because I left you jobless.”
And Trixie leaned in, took Twilight’s head
And whispered in her ear, “Let’s go to bed.”
Addendum
by GaPJaxie
Once there was a pony who all the crowds favored,
Honored with story and song,
A star whose followers never wavered,
A fandom a million hooves strong.
You see that great pony, won her fans love,
With but a single great act,
While you, Twilight Sparkle, needed your own show,
You’re overplayed—it’s sad, but a fact.
You’re a cheap Mary Sue, written to win,
Gave you wings just to get you out of a rut,
Made you royalty just so your act would seem special,
But hey, at least you’ve got a cute butt.
Also, fuck you.
From, Not Of
by Burraku_Pansa
Wealthy, worldly start
Drowning in advantages
How could she want more?
Powerful and smart
Greatness in the air I breathe
How could she want more?
Master of my art
Magic swirling in my grasp
How could she want more?
Ruler of her heart
Her Highness bows down to me
How could she want more?
Tearing me apart
This fire for her, for us two
How could I want more?
Woke two hours too late
Did she not think to stir me?
The day continues
Mane a frightful state
Another hour for combing
The day continues
Never get it straight
No matter—it’s close enough
The day continues
Appetite to sate
Dragon better have my lunch
The day continues
Am I gaining weight?
If I am, I make it hot
The day continues
Nearly to our date
Guess I’ll have a light dinner
The day continues
Wait and wait and wait
She forgot our special day?
The life continues
What gives you the right?
Do you realize who I am?
We’re done after this
Neverending fight
Just shut the fuck up, you whore!
We’re done after this
On into the night
And you call me arrogant?
We’re done after this
No I’m not alright!
I gave up a life for you!
We’re done after this
Kill yourself, Twilight
I just can’t take any more
I’m done after this
Self-Advice
by FloydienSlip
Who are you that catches my eye? I
Who are you that wanders in sesame? Me
But what is your name, O purple mare? Air
Cursèd vision that doth my eyes fool! Fool
How dare you mock the Great and Grand! And
Powerful, too, as she did foretell. Tell
She was who you were not, it appears. Ears
Lovely things, as soft as pillow down. Down
To me she did turn, though it hurts to say. Say
I told I her I loved her, no less and no more. More
And I said she’d be mine, forever and now. Now
I walk by my lonesome, heart cleaved in twain. Wane
I love her today, though for her I know not. Not
You think?! Tell me, quickly, for I cannot bear! E’er
At last! I knew it! But what shall I do? Do
Have sex? That’s fine by me. Thank you. Ew
My mistress’ eyes might be her strongest trait,
The way the soul behind them seems to glow.
One hungry glance is all she needs to throw
To wobble knees with otherworldly weight.
My mistress’ mane is so beautifully straight,
Like fragrant grass in row by precise row—
But such perfection nature’d never grow
As the hairs here headed on my heady mate.
Oh, but there’s so much more to my dear, darling Twilight:
Seeing through the gleaming eyes, looking past the silky hair,
This magician recognizes quite a magic-minded mare.
How else could come the energy to last all through the night,
Be she up late minding homework with her characteristic care
Or engaged with yours truly in some far more lusty affair?
My mistress’ eyes are purple, dull, and plain;
It’s such a common color, mine are the same!
And don’t even get me started on her mane;
I mean, pink stripes? You can’t get much more lame.
A pigeon’s wings, a foul mule’s face,
A rump filled out with fat perfectly wrong.
She’s lucky she looks so good in lace,
Or I’m sure we’d never get along.
Her maker must’ve thought, “Why stop at that?”
Because her personality is just as bad:
Today she almost smacked me—such a brat!
What did I even do to make her mad?
A less fortunate filly would pray for the luck
To have a marefriend who tells her how not to suck.
My mistress’ eyes are too much like the sun,
Angry, bright, and fiery—I should run.
Dramatic much, chasing me from our home?
To hear her yell, you’d think I broke a law;
Really, it was such a childish fit to pitch.
What’d she expect, reading that other poem?
This is my place to lay my feelings raw;
Not my fault if some days she’s a bitch.
…But what if she reads thi
That Twilight, she’s a girl with endless passion!
Her voice is music heard for miles around!
She’s sensitive, and oh so very youthful!
Loves poetry—loves all romantic fashion!
Her empathy never fails to astound!
If she calls me names, she’s only being truthful!
Opening night comes, like always,
with new faces, eyes, hearts,
floating in the bursting light.
Memory takes a knife to me.
There was a face I met once,
a set of eyes, a heart,
set far apart from all the rest on the winding trail.
Singular in nature, she was a combination so bewitching
there could be no truth in it.
Half button, half a snub nose,
muzzle poised to blast a quip—
witty tongue a lashing whip
to set my teeth a’gnashing.
Passion sugared stings to such a bracing sour,
but the wounds didn’t age well.
Comfort rubbed the lye in
then stripped the nerves
till I soured on sour, too.
And there’s a powerful gravity I’d known in those eyes
in the young light,
when she didn’t know my mind was as there as my body.
It pulled at me, that set of sunbeams on my back,
closer and deeper, crushing with a padded vice
until I was too small to recognize.
Blacked and blued and bleeding,
but comfortable.
Comfortable.
Comfortable, comfortable.
Comfortable in the pattern,
the movements,
the standing wave goodbye that must have reverberated back to her.
Must have.
Must have known it in her heart
without my saying so
because I didn’t say it, so…
She just must have known.
Or we both felt it—
the barren divide.
I wouldn’t put it past a heart like that.
A heart that knows—
-its master
-what its master wants
-what its master has
A heart that knows how to weigh the points
and see the want in what it has
and know the want it doesn’t
and doesn’t want the wanting thing to hold it back like always.
Yes, it must have known.
Must have seen.
Magic and wishes and glitter and fire and bruises
can’t turn soil into a harvest
when there’s not a seed to be sown.
And no seed would do
if there weren’t a face,
a set of eyes,
and a heart selling it.
And if that law was in her
like I know it was—
like I know it must have been
because I knew it on her face,
because I knew it in her eyes,
because I knew it in my heart—
then why do I have to recall her combination
every time?
Everywhere I go?
Whenever I look out into the motes of life before my stage?
Wherever I hear the quick, rapturous beating and the struck gasp?
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder
and they say the guilty see their victims around every corner,
but they say I’ll gather no moss as long as I keep rolling.
Can they all be right?
Closing time for the night.
I think I’ll leave this town a bit sooner than I’d planned.