Every night and day
To stop entropy, the death
We practice the Art
The Lone Power's curse
We use the Art to slow death
To reach the Timeheart
"Fairest and Fallen, greetings and defiance!" I would rather be hated for who i am than be loved for who i pretend to be!
"People...stop being mean to each other.
Especially for the sake of laughs. IT SPEEDS UP ENTROPY." -Diane Duane in chat.
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ShadowWizard: YAY!! Very good!! (only, your second one has seven syllables in the last line. Maybe use it as the middle line of a third haiku? )
Originally posted by Sean L.:
dee-DUM is fairly easy -
Well, yes, it's supoosed to be the most natural rhythm for English. And all my friends who write poetry regularly say they do it easily, too.
But I never really got into writing poetry, and whenever I start trying to write verse, everything comes out in troches or dactyls--anything BUT iambs and anything but five even feet. (sigh). I comfort myself with the knowledge that Shakespeare was rarely completely regular in the pattern, either:
To be or not to be, that is the question
(feminine ending: extra syllable). And sometimes switched to troches for supernatural effects. Maybe I'm just witch-minded.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
And then, there's that story someone tells about an actor playing Shakespeare for the first time (Baptista, the father, in Taming of the Shrew) and trying to get down the whole dee-DUM pattern of how to say things, and his entrance line was (and nobody to this day can remember exactly how he accomplished this feat) he managed to say:
"Gentlemen importune me no furthur..."
It ain't always supposed to be iambs.
For some reason, I can only seem to write in iambic rhyming when I do poetry, though not always pentameter. I'll give the Oath a try sometime.
Cool! Someone who knows what they're doing!
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Protect and preserve
Through strife death and calm times
No matter your life.
Originally posted by kli6:
It doesn't have to be poetic. It doesn't have to be profound. It doesn't even necessarily have to make sense as a sentence. You just have to (like any wizard) love words. It's kind of like fitting puzzle pieces together, and you look at words a little differently when you have to pay attention to how many syllables there are.
that's a really good way to say it, I think, and i've written a fair few of poems.
Merged two posts - Peter
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
...and eyes, sweet as honey, soft as moss, that hold in their black vessels the bitterness of old wounds and the tired peace of growing wisdom.
Omg people think up such neat stuff here!!! (omg I sound like a newbie!! ggggrrr) Ok here's one shot, but sorry, it's sadly not about the oath.
this is told in the alien's point of view. XD
please don't die,
just try to read this horrible something.
now......... this is my um... something
Lovely brown squares,
all in a row,
eat them one by one,
before she does!
Oh no!
she's touching the shiny stuffs!
she sais she gonna crumple it!
How could she do it?
to the poor piece of chocolate,
that I love so much!
I know it's awful, but I can't write poems!!! Sorry I wasted your time but:
ok sorry I have to put this quote, " I'm going to break off all those nice little squares, and I'm going to eat... it... ALL..." (carmela!)
the_peridexis wrote:
i'm a big poetry writer, but i've always perfered a freer style of writing than haikus. dunno why, but that's just me.
No worries. That's why we've also got poetry threads over in Chatter II (though you may have to go back a page or two, they haven't been active recently). For me, the haikus were just fun and simple and an easy way for the non-poetry-writers to get involved (plus DD hmmmed when it was mentioned to her. Then she wrote a haiku). As I said above, counting syllables is relatively easy.
samehl wrote:
I know it's awful, but I can't write poems!!!
You and me, both. Doesn't stop me from enjoying doing it, though!
Wizgal: Yay!!
life 'gainst entropy
is at the heart of the Oath
do you swear to it?
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hello. I saw there was an oath haiku, and i thought it would be interesting to have a topic for all oath poems rather then just haikus, especially since i noticed a lot of people had a bit of hard time with it. Unfortunatly i have to go right now so i'll have to put up one of my own.
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Ok, I got it. I'm not really sure how well it works, but it seems to fit. Here it is:
Do you pledge to stop the plight,
To fight for light, to do what's right,
Think carefully before you choose,
For this is truly no one's ruse...
(Yes, this is all of it. the "..." is just there to signify that this is just the beginning of an adventure yet to come...)
Consolidated into Oath Haiku thread (since the original stated purpose of the thread was any verse form--if you read earlier posts, there are also limericks and double dactyls in this thread); renamed thread; and consolidated double-post. --kli.
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
For those of you who don't recognize WHO'S back, I'll give you a hint, and I don't mean the typo's in my posts - YR.
Okay, I'm going to kill some more time by making another Oath Poem. Or two. Or three.
Life's name, Life's sake,
Protector of life I shall be.
Helping, healing, fighting for life,
Slowing down Death, and thwarting
The Lone One, all in the service of Light.
Likey? It was COMPLETLY on the spur of the moment. Especicaly(sp?) the end. And the second and third lines could be used in a haiku, so feel free to use them. Oke, now, toodles!
"Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties." - Anonymous
Nita, Kit, pay attention to that one!
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