Oath Haiku (and other poetic forms)

[Kathy Li]

I've been threatening folks in Chime with this thread, and today I'm feeling silly enough to post it. A while back, there was a discussion about the Oath and how it changes, and I guess I thought it would be fun to see it in a few other forms, and I know we've got a ton of poets on this board.

So, let's see who can rewrite the Oath as a haiku (or other verse form of your choice).

For Life's sake a vow
To always heal; never harm
I shall use the Art

[papercrane]

Two different, independent versions. Because I rock just that much.
Also because it is damned hard to condense the Oath, so I took two different angles.

Until all things end
I will be steward of Life
Caring, protecting.

For guardianship
Of all that lives I swear this:
Defense, and no more.

Anyone brave enough to tackle a pontoum, villanelle, or sestina has my hearty congratulations and a mug of digital coffee. I might myself, once I have more time...

[Kathy Li]

Oooo! Much more articulate than mine. I like!! And yeah, hard to cram the whole Oath into a single haiku.

Myself, I'm waiting to see if anybody takes on the challenge of a limerick, double-dactyl, or clerihew...

[Gryphon]

Lemme try a limerick... XD

Once there was a wizard from Manhattan
who happened to pass by a broken fan
Said, "How do you do,
and can I help you?"
And was shipped off to a mental institution by a passing man.

aka the forums with the rest of us loons.

[Kathy Li]

Hee hee hee!!! [applause]

I can only think that the first line of a double dactyl needs to start with "temporal clauditing" ...

[Gryphon]

Thanks. I love all the others, but no one else is posting.

Poot: *footsteppishes*

*attempts to drag people from chat into it* Rawww, excuses, all excuses...

[Kathy Li]

I think because it takes time to come up with something. I mean if someone wanted to do a Shakespearean sonnet, that could take a while.

And geez, a sestina would take forever. Ouch! I mean, if I were going to do a sestina, just picking out my six words would take HOURS...

That's why I said haikus.

to guard and protect
how life grows naturally
the Wizard's Oath stands

[Birdhead]

in the name of Life
and Living things I say I
will serve and protect.

Umph. This is harder than it looks. I am sort of tempted to put it into daft rhyming couplets, since we mention other forms, but I'm pretty sure that would be frivolous and, like, bad.

Still tempted, though...

[papercrane]

Pfft. Go ahead.
More haiku, 'cause I'm just that lazy.

Servant, protector
All Life my ward and I Life's
Fear not eternity.

That last line of papercrane's haiku had six syllables...anywho..I'll have a go.

I've taken the oath
in life's name and for life's sake
I'll practice the art.

eh...it'll do...

[Kathy Li]

Ok. To fulfill the trad. haiku restriction of mentioning a season:

summer and winter
on guard against entropy
'til Timeheart's meeting

And just 'cause I'm feeling daft and rhymy, too...

There once was a wizard named S'ree
Who spent all her life in the sea.
Said one human senior
The moment you've seen 'er,
You'll say: "A whale of a wizard is she!"

[papercrane]

Aiyee, Lovebird's right...
Just change 'eternity' for 'forever.' I don't like it as much, but hey...what can ya do?

Love the limerick, kli. Ought to win something. First of the category, for one.

[Kathy Li]

No, no, Gryph's was the FIRST limerick posted.

Clerihew:

Diane Duane
Drives us insane
Since her publisher can't resist
Making release dates drift

[papercrane]

Oh god, I have been so mind-numblingly stressed the past few days...weeks...yeah. I apologize to everyone involved, and will just be shutting up now.

I should be more intelligent and come up with some witty poem(s) to make this post more than one line instead of whining about what I should do. The poem(s) would have been brilliant, I assure you. Let us mourn their loss.

[Kathy Li]

Oh, dear. Heartfelt sympathies, and much mournful wistfulness of the Lost Poems of Papercrane. Hopefully it's less crazy for you now!