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[Zaxarus]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

And what I love about this prompt is that it gives everyone a reason to try poetry, because since it's Zevran, it doesn't have to be good poetry.

This exactly was my thought. Eminently because i have the same problem as Klidi.
@Klidi: i think poetry recycling would be ok, not everyone is a Shakespeare. I'm certainly not.
*pondering* Should i give extra points for the poetry being bad?

[Klidi]

ok, you convinced me, I'll give it a try. Writing bad is something I'm good at, as I found out when I tried to write it troll style.

[Tryynity]

Bitenomnom wrote...

Yep, I got it (installing right now, in fact). Thank you!! I didn't mean to sound impatient.
And my thanks to Bioware as well. X3

@Tryynity: D'aww, sounds to me like Zevran is more of a poet than he thinks he is/claims to be! That was almost too adorable for my delicate sensibilities.

I was just working on mine...too much fun. XD I am the tiniest bit tempted to write the whole thing in (loose) verse. Goodness gracious. That would be fantastic. But maybe an awful idea. Ha.

I dont know what you mean by loose verse?

Do whatever strikes you fancy? No one is nasty here I have found, which is a pleasant change for forums.

Thank you by the way

Modifié par Tryynity, 11 octobre 2011 - 07:31 .

[Bitenomnom]

Tryynity wrote...

I dont know what you mean by loose verse?

Do whatever strikes you fancy? No one is nasty here I have found, which is a pleasant change for forums.

Thank you by the way

Loose verse was my made-up placeholder for -- you know -- oh! Free verse, there we go, that's what it is. Don't mind me being all clueless over here. Haha.

Oh, I didn't mean that I thought people would be mean about it (and it is so nice to realize, upon writing that, that that's a given around here!). I was just musing to myself about the possibility (and that it could be one of those things that just seems like a good idea right now but that I will regret by the end XD on the other hand, I bet it'd be bucketloads of fun...might take the excuse to try it). 

You're very welcome! And I'm sorry I still haven't gotten to reading and commenting on your last entry, by the way. It's sitting up in my tabs, and I fully intend to get to it as soon as I can.

[Tryynity]

Still lost

- A teacher probably spoke about what it was.... once.... long ago but Im sure I was looking out the window at the time LOL

Never mind - do it and then youll have taught me something new.

[Zaxarus]

Tryynity wrote...
No one is nasty here I have found, which is a pleasant change for forums.

Would you be so kind and retract that? I insist on being nasty. I have a reputation to loose. So the correct sentence has to be:
No one is nasty here besides Zaxarus.



*snicker*

But you're right, this forum is really nice.
Zaxarus

[Sannox]

Aroihkin wrote...
 (Screenshot from Sannox, who needs to come back.)

Aww, thank you .  I still lurk in the shadows now and then - can't resist!   I don't have the talent to join in with the prompts but I still like to look.   I spent more time than was healthy on the Zevran thread in the old days, but it was such fun.  It's lovely to see that old friends are still around - I miss you!

Modifié par Sannox, 11 octobre 2011 - 09:05 .

[Tryynity]

Zaxarus wrote...

Tryynity wrote...
No one is nasty here I have found, which is a pleasant change for forums.

Would you be so kind and retract that? I insist on being nasty. I have a reputation to loose. So the correct sentence has to be:
No one is nasty here besides Zaxarus.



*snicker*

But you're right, this forum is really nice.
Zaxarus

Oh well then I will have to take you to task then... bring it on !

I warn you I can give as good as I get and Ive wrangled the some of the meanest out there - hahahaha - trolls and the like BEWARE !!


LOL jkn.... kinda

[Corker]

Tryynity wrote...

Still lost

Many poetic styles, like sonnets and limericks, have two major features: rhyme and meter.  You know what rhyme is.  Meter is the way the first line of a limerick goes bum-BA-da-da BA-da-da BUM.  (there ONCE was a LAdy from THRACE, whose CORset grew TOO tight to LACE)  It's a pattern of stresses on the words.  This is sort of the default definition of "poetry."

Alliterative verse doesn't have to use rhyme, and while it has a meter, it isn't a set and repeatable pattern.  Its major feature is that two or more of the stressed syllables on a line start with the same letter.  "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Blank verse, IIRC, has regular meter but no rhyme.  I think it may even mean only iambic pentameter, like (insert famous Shakespeare quote here).

Free verse doesn't have a set style.  That doesn't mean it doesn't use standard poetic techniques, but it doesn't *have* to.  It may depend upon other things like placement of words on the printed page to achieve an effect as well.

If you've seen
a poem
and it didn't rhyme and it didn't flow and you sat there thinking "what the hell"
you may have seen
a poem
in free verse

(Contrary to my little example, there's more to free verse than taking a sentence and chopping it up in awkward places, although I admit I'm not exactly familiar enough with the genre to really say what goes into it.)

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Haiku are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

(Haiku = Japanese poem. First line 5 syllables, second line 7, third 5.)

Elven assassin
Sneaks through the silent shadows
Hunts a Warden's heart.

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 11 octobre 2011 - 01:09 .

[Sushifer]

Lord help me, but I'm trying to write limericks. Only time will tell if I try my hand at anything more challenging for my entry. Though I suspect it'll all just end up as deliberately bad poetry. I can't resist a chance to be daft, after all. This prompt is going to be fun

@Bite Oh, that prize-pic is too adorable! Great work.

And as a bit of a poetry rube myself, that explanation was quite handy, thanks, Corker!

Modifié par Sushifer, 11 octobre 2011 - 01:37 .

[Klidi]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

Haiku are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

(Haiku = Japanese poem. First line 5 syllables, second line 7, third 5.)

Elven assassin
Sneaks through the silent shadows
Hunts a Warden's heart.

I love haiku, but I don't think they're easy. I think they're the most difficult to write - at least for me, I start writing haiku and end up with the story with more than 6k words. In rare cases I write poetry I write free verse.

But I have a friend who's great at haiku. She even wrote 'bad smut haiku' for my Zevran and Airam. Here it is (the wrong number of syllables is my fault, but this is the best translation I can come up with):

Violets in melting snow
announcing the end of winter
- smell of leather fills the air.

(And if you can't spot the 'bad smut' part - I couldn't either, and I was told it's in the third line. )

[Aroihkin]

Zaxarus wrote...

Tryynity wrote...
No one is nasty here I have found, which is a pleasant change for forums.

Would you be so kind and retract that? I insist on being nasty. I have a reputation to loose. So the correct sentence has to be:
No one is nasty here besides Zaxarus.



*snicker*

But you're right, this forum is really nice.
Zaxarus

We had a few scuffles in ye olde Zevthread the 1st, mostly when I'd offend someone.  I'm really good at that when I do more than lurk and write porn, lulz.

But overall definitely. Zev's fans are the best; his corner of the fandom is the best group of folks I've ever stumbled across. <3

Sannox wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...&nbsp;(Screenshot from Sannox, who needs to come back.)

Aww, thank you .&nbsp; I still lurk in the shadows now and then - can't resist!&nbsp;&nbsp; I&nbsp;don't have the talent to join in with the prompts but I&nbsp;still like to look. &nbsp; I spent more time than was healthy on the Zevran thread in the old days, but it was such fun.&nbsp; It's lovely to see that old friends are still around - I&nbsp;miss you!

I don't participate in the prompts either due to lameness! We should both lurk more loudly.

And there's no such thing as "more time than was healthy", I miss the days when I'd have to leave the tab open when I passed out and catch up on ten pages when I woke up. XD

[Zaxarus]

10 pages are too much but i REALLY like active forums.

[Corker]

Zaxarus wrote...



Your so beautiful for me

Describe a scene wherein Zevran recites a poem or song about your character. May be to seduce him/her, to thank for a wonderful night or for her/his friendship (Zevran not being a LI), something humorous about a flaw/spleen of your character or a requiem after a martyr ending.
Should include a (short, around 8-12 lines as an indication) poem/songtext.

So, there I am, a page or so into a fill for this (30 min on the clock) when we get into this haiku discussion.  And I ask myself, Self, can we boil this fill down to a haiku?

Antivan Haiku
Red-haired archer sighs
"Poetry reveals the heart."
- I remain silent

There we go. 

(Time: 35 minutes, counting discarded work...)

[ejoslin]

*glomp* Sannox! I have nothing interesting to add, but I miss you and your screenies of your naked Zev run.

[Bitenomnom]

@Sushifer: Thank you! -- Did you say limericks?

There once was an Antivan Crow
Who fell to one Warden's swift blow
His oath he swore, then
And followed the Warden
Wherever the Warden did go

(~ 3 minutes)

I love limericks. XD (A few years ago I wrote five limericks strung together telling the story of a guy who was killed by his aunt? It was really silly.)

@Corker: Ooh! I like it. Haikus are tough...especially because I think there are actually about a kajillion rules that nobody knows. I read an article about it...years ago. (Like some line has to have something having to do with seasons? Like from a certain "list" of adjectives or what-have-you? And other stuff like that...I dunno. For the "original" haikus, anyway. I would be too scared to even try to write one of those real ones, though.)

Modifié par Bitenomnom, 11 octobre 2011 - 09:54 .

[Corker]

Yeah, Wikipedia has two good articles on haiku and haiku in English. I did the two ideas separated by a bit of punctuation, but skipped the seasonal aspect.

I had a guy I know once claim they were also supposed to be composed spontaneously, I think as part of Zen discipline? But I've never seen that repeated elsewhere.

------------------
From my collection of DA poems and songs...

There was an Antivan assassin
Who thought he'd go Grey Warden-stabbin
"Hey, he's kind of hot"
The Grey Warden thought
And now in her tent they are thrashin'

And one of my favorites, even though the first line doesn't quite scan...  Found scribbled outside of the "qunari compound" in Kirkwall...

Ebasit shanedan
Meravaas panahedan
Maraas asala
Kata issala
Tal maraas teth vashedan

[Loose translation:

From hello
Until goodbye
Without a soul
The end is dust
Lo, you are truly nothing but ****.]

Modifié par Corker, 11 octobre 2011 - 11:05 .

[Bitenomnom]

Ahh, I see. Yeah, I don't know that much about them, just remember reading that article once and thinking, "All the haikus I've ever written are fake." XD

Bahaha...I like your limerick much more.

[Klidi]

If you wish to find out something about haiku, I reacommend www.ahapoetry.com/  Very nice explanation of 'rules' that are not valid any more, the techniques, etc. with a lot of very nice examples.

[Zaxarus]

Thank you for the link. Me knowing not a damp about haiku, it will be interesting. But if i write something this week, it will be with more traditional rhymes. If. Being a non-entry this week the enthusiasm is a bit limited, especially with Nemain's diary awaiting further expansion.

btw i finally used a spellchecker etc on my last 6 blogs. The most miserable failures should be corrected. Sorry for being so late with that. Any complaints about mysterious phrases or wordusage pls PM.

Modifié par Zaxarus, 12 octobre 2011 - 09:45 .

[Aroihkin]

I love these. XD

Unrelated, but there was a thread in Haiku form the other day on the WoW forums. Mine went something like:

I just want to say,
These haiku made me laugh.
...Damn, that was just six.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Knowledge of haiku
Alas seems sorely lacking.
I now feel a fool.

And I love limericks!

There once was an elf from Antiva,
With ridic'lously awesome stamina,
A lover and rogue
Always dressed with the vogue,
And bedroom tricks you'll not believah!

(Damn, I should have picked something easier to rhyme with than 'Antiva' XD)

[Sialater]

Well, I was in a grumpy mood till I read all the awesomely funny poems y'all wrote. LOL

I'm working on my sequel to The Rescue and Carver's being an obstinate git. Or, as Aveline says, "a bit of ******." So, he's irritating me no end. I'll be introducing him to my Zevran later on. Should be... educational. For Carver, at least.

[Tryynity]

I had fun with this yesterday... enjoy !

Started as a simple character development excercise....


INTERVIEW WITH AN ASSASSIN