Yo, newbies!

[Niniel]

You don´t want to be civies for all your life. You want to earn points and become soldiers. I have some points for you. I think I might have 30? Hm... probably. Maybe... 

 

Anyway.

 

If you have joined in the last two months then you can write me a shadow poem and hope that I enjoy them enough to give you 10 points. Post it here. You can make a simple poem that rhymes, a haiku or something more complicated. Know that I´m of the Shadow faction and expect something shadowy and evil. WoT related is always good. 

 

Go!

 

 

 

And the rest of you.... well, spam my thread. :D

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

write me a light poem and I have some points to give out, too :D

[Niniel]

Look at that! You will never get the chance to get this many points again! 

[Panchi]

Example,

 

Shadow poem

shadow shadow where are you

Why you move when I throw

A squirrel casted a Shadow too

While there was a loo.

 

Light poem

Light Light so very bright

Is it left or is it right

Does it fly like a kite

Or does it bite?

 

 

See poems don't have to make sense at all put sound good.

[Cirteap]

Well the TinaHel went down to Georgia

She was lookin' for a soul to steal

She was in a bind 'cause he was way behind

And she was willin' to make a deal

 

When she came across this young man

Sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot

And the Tinahel jumped up on a hickory stump

And said, "Boy, let me tell you what"

 

"You probably didn't know it

But I'm a fiddle player too

And if you care to take a dare

I'll just make a bet with you"

 

"Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy

But give the TinaHel her due

I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul

I think I'm better than you"

 

The boy said, "My name's Cirteap

And it might be a sin

But I'm gonna take your bet, you're gonna regret

I'm the best there's ever been"

[Turin Turambar]

Shadow and light

 

Why do they fight?

 

Neither side will win

 

And yet we see this sight

 

Again and again and again.

 

Logain and Taim

 

The names aren't the same

 

As from the war of power

 

When nearly everyone had three

 

like they just grew on trees

 

Like oh so pretty flowers.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

nice, turin

 

10 points

[Ithillian Turambar]

As from the war of power

 

When nearly everyone had three

 

like they just grew on trees

 

Like oh so pretty flowers.

So, Rand wasn't the first then?

 

[Valvidian]

Neither a color,

The dark shadow, the pure light,

Fight with the other.

 

Just something I came up with, spur of the moment. I might try to have something more solid tomorrow.

[Niniel]

Points for you, Valvidian! Don´t let that stop you from posting more poems. :)

[Wren of the Brown]

Shadow and Light spoke words upon awakening,

"Let there be no strife between us, only reckoning.

Take the day astride and part it asunder.

Let lightning cap the cloud, may dark storms thunder.

Crown the morning with glory and guide the dusk to slumber,

Bring hope to night and cast the day's final number."

 

The accord had been reached, the truce settled,

Light burnt with valor, Shadow the lurking nettle,

The golden Sun struck the Moon's lidless eye,

A hundred waters drowned the endless sky,

The Creator looked on at the pair's joyful ruckus,

Smiling, He decreed, "Let turmoil be forever thus."

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

that's actual poeminess

 

I gives you 15 points.

[Wren of the Brown]

:)

 

Beware the bard's challenge.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you changed it...

 

it's even better.

 

but we like a lot of posts in the BT so never hesitate to edit by way of a new post :)

[Wren of the Brown]

Yup. I usually go through seven or eight or a hundred revisions until I'm happy. I underline things which don't sound right and keep fiddling with it. It's a labor.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

If you made threads of that process you would have a zillion points and we would learn something of writing perhaps.

 

perhaps not but it would be an interesting read.

[Wren of the Brown]

Um. A project for later, then. I could document a new poem and the revisions.

[Wren of the Brown]

Lit scholars live for this stuff, practically quivering when they can study a rough draft.

[Wren of the Brown]

Speaking of which...

 

Melville's Marginalia! http://melvillesmarginalia.org/front.php

 

Digital scans of Melvie's personal library and his scribbled notes in the margins, catalogued and documented. Hence, why I write in books. If Melville can write in books then, dammit, so can I!

[Panchi]

Shadow and Light spoke words upon awakening,

"Let there be no strife between us, only reckoning.

Take the day astride and part it asunder.

Let lightning cap the cloud, may dark storms thunder.

Crown the morning with glory and guide the dusk to slumber,

Bring hope to night and cast the day's final number."

 

The accord had been reached, the truce settled,

Light burnt with valor, Shadow the lurking nettle,

The golden Sun struck the Moon's lidless eye,

A hundred waters drowned the endless sky,

The Creator looked on at the pair's joyful ruckus,

Smiling, He decreed, "Let turmoil be forever thus."

 

10 points!

 

Actual poem... in BT 

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

Speaking of which...

Melville's Marginalia! http://melvillesmarginalia.org/front.php

Digital scans of Melvie's personal library and his scribbled notes in the margins, catalogued and documented. Hence, why I write in books. If Melville can write in books then, dammit, so can I!

that is very cool!

 

I bet he'd have loved highlighters.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

t hose kindle highlights used to bug me but I find im kind of interested in what people find worthy of an underscore.

[Leyrann]

If you made threads of that process you would have a zillion points and we would learn something of writing perhaps.

 

perhaps not but it would be an interesting read.

 

Now if only I was native English... I actually write poems too every now and then, but writing in another language than my own, even English, is very hard, at least when writing proza. And I think poetry would be even harder.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I always found it easier to write poetry in not english because I could think more about the sound of the words than the meaning and I'm a little uncomfortable with poemy feelings.

 

plus most everything rhymes in Hebrew.

[Wren of the Brown]

Poemy feelings? Do tell!