The Limericked Adventures of Bob the Hellmouth Cop by TheNewBuzWuzz
A set of limericks that very loosely follows the course of the series from the POV of the Sunnydale police. Inspired by the March challenge at the Sunnydale Fanfic Club podcast: Jobs and Joyce's handcuffs. There might be ~100 police officers in Sunnydale, but for the purposes of this romp, they're all Bob until proven otherwise.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14027694
In this episode, TheNewBuzWuzz also talks a lot about the genre of Buffy poetry! Here are all of the included links discussed in the episode:
Here's the ficlet from an outsider's POV that inspired TheNewBuzWuzz, The English Patient: Seven Times Giles Visited the Hospital (and One Time He Didn't) by punch_kicker15
TheNewBuzWuzz's Buffyverse poetry master list (2018): https://archiveofourown.org/collections/BuffyVerse
RECS
10 fun works of Buffyverse narrative poetry... in increasing order of smuttiness!
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Episode Guide in Limerick Form by periru3, Tafadhali a.k.a. Waffle Meringue Productions
These people summed up every episode of Buffy as a limerick. That is a lot of limericks, & they're often quite funny! And in the tumblr version, there are pictures.
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Spikeid by Quinara
Epic in every sense of the word. :) It does all the things that a good multichapter adventure fic does, and it does them in verse. It's rich and wonderful. You should especially read it if you like Anne Steele, Illyria, or the Aeneid. It's somewhat Spuffy, but mostly gen.
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Anya and Tara's 'Mystic Mamas Detective Agency' by RevDorothyL
So fun and lighthearted. There are fabulous rhymes. The characters are in character. It's a crossover with Doctor Who and some other thing that I haven't seen, but I enjoyed both chapters.
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Twas the Night by Sunnydalesis
"'Twas the night 'fore St. Vigeous, and all through the school…" A remix of the Parent-Teacher night in School Hard. It's 110% accurate, and the rhymes are fabulous. It does a great job of bringing out all the Spuffy subtext.
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NeverBuffyMore by radio_silent
Once More, With Feeling, and also with Edgar Allan Poe's rhythm and with SO MANY RHYMES.
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Spaiku of Blue by mere_ubu
Something Blue retold in a string of haiku, sort of deadpan and absolutely delightful and hilarious. This author also did a couple of other episodes.
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Tuesday May 20, 2003 by Quinara
It's poetry that Buffy and Spike write the night before the final battle in Chosen. They steal the pen from each other and end up switching after every line; I love that the writing is a fight and then a collaboration. This work also includes the definitive headcanon about how Spike writes poetry...
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The Sunnydale Tales by St_Salieri
The hilarious Spuffy-centric version of "Older and Far Away" in the style of the Canterbury Tales.
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The Vamp In The Hat by Mad Poetess
Spike/Xander, explicit. Smut Dr. Seuss style. Thing One and Thing Two are sex toys. It's pure genius.
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Spankin' Spuffy Limericks by Rebcake
It's good smutfic, in verse... run, don't walk?
