Darkness Ascendant Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Keteks are one of the many things Brandon Sanderson created via his books and are pretty amazing in my opinion so much that they should become an official poem type. Here you can post your own Keteks in the comments and enjoy! /Storm blows/ man as carelessly as man/ blows Storms/ (correct me if the form is wrong...) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 It's supposed to have 5 segments that still make coherent thoughts, I believe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardjet Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) Wow. I was JUST thinking about starting a thread for this this morning.This is from the Coppermind page on keteks.I'll post my own if I can manage some inspiration while at my desk. A ketek is a form of holy Vorin poetry which reads the same forward and backward (allowing for changes in verb form), and is also divisible into five sections, each of which also expresses a complete thought. Edit: A little rushed, but here goes: Clouds approach/the sky darkens/howling winds/darken the sky/and approaching clouds. Edited August 20, 2015 by Ardjet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamEternal Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Wow. I was JUST thinking about starting a thread for this this morning. This is from the Coppermind page on keteks. I'll post my own if I can manage some inspiration while at my desk. Edit: A little rushed, but here goes: Clouds approach/the sky darkens/howling winds/darken the sky/and approaching clouds. While it might be possible to ignore the "the", the third segment is assimetrical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 stick/eats pizza/that/pizza eats/stick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant Posted August 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 5 segments. I'll just put more / in them lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant Posted August 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 /storm blows/man/as carelessly/as man/blows storm/ MiINDBLOWING 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 /storm blows/man/as carelessly/as man/blows storm/ MiINDBLOWING Pony battles/Steelheart/valiantly/Steelheart/battles ponies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 (edited) Chasmfiend/ of shattered plains/ destroys shardbearer/ destroying plains/ shattering chasmfiends.EDIT: Removed two times a "the" EDIT 2: Realised, that with removed "thes" Ketek has exactly 10 words. Edited August 25, 2015 by Alfa 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant Posted August 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 Chasmfiend/ of shattered plains/ destroys the shardbearer/ destroying the plains/ shattering chasmfiends. Take away "the" in "the plains" and it will be perfect!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seana Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Food cooking/ on rock/ and/ Rock on /cooking food. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ookla the Absent Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 There's a really old tread on this already, if you want to see some others that have been done. For a while, I actually had one I wrote as my account's "status". http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/567-keteks/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjCarris Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 After my most recent reread of The Way of Kings, I started to look up fan-made keteks and found this thread, as well as the older one, and put together a ketek of my own to post here. It may not be perfect, I put it together in only a few minutes, but I hope you all like it.Beautiful worlds/ and creations of men,/ life,/ men of creation/ and world's beauty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjCarris Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Chasmfiend/ of shattered plains/ destroys shardbearer/ destroying plains/ shattering chasmfiends. EDIT: Removed two times a "the" EDIT 2: Realised, that with removed "thes" Ketek has exactly 10 words. All you need is an "of" between "shattering chasmfiends" in the last section to make it reversible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant Posted September 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 After my most recent reread of The Way of Kings, I started to look up fan-made keteks and found this thread, as well as the older one, and put together a ketek of my own to post here. It may not be perfect, I put it together in only a few minutes, but I hope you all like it. Beautiful worlds/ and creations of men,/ life,/ men of creation/ and world's beauty. Free upvote yay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corax Posted September 5, 2015 Report Share Posted September 5, 2015 Ooh, lessee: Reading / the peerless Cosmere books / awesome books / Cosmere / peerless the reading! Um... or... Pattern / of stories the spren and we desire / and lies / and desire we and spren / the stories of Pattern. (Translation: I totally want to know Patterns adventures in Sebarial's Warcamp!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaellok Posted September 5, 2015 Report Share Posted September 5, 2015 (edited) Hole ripped in time / Wind howls / Heroes stand bravely against / Howling wind / time in ripped hole Black Wind howls / The Prophet speaks / / speaks the Prophet / howls black wind The Black Wind howls / And the Prophet speaks / One among you will die / speaks the prophet / and howls the windy black Dark prophet speaks / of sacrifice / and heroes / sacrifice of / speaks Prophet Dark Black Wind / the Dark Omen / dying hero's omen / dark the wind / black. I had a very definite idea of what I was trying to do/say, about a very particular moment in a game. I struggled quite a bit, and then started playing around with different lines. And then thought, hey! Wouldn't it be fun to show some of my failures?! So I included those, too. I mean, only some; I probably deleted 50-60 lines, as well as spent a couple days thinking about this damned thing. But now it's done, so yay! And I will personally bake and eat a cookie on your behalf for everyone that knows what this is referencing. Edited September 5, 2015 by kaellok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1empyrean Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 (edited) Steps he inside / hearth brightens / kind in heart warms heart in kind/ brightens hearth / inside he steps. Sword, eyes, man / defined honor for all / kings of kings all / for honor defined man / eyes sword. Sky shatters / has man fallen / soul, one of murder / of one soul fallen / man has shattered sky. Rolling dice /the red hand, his / bloody dice / bloody, his hand red / the dice roll. Keteks aren't hard. Edited September 6, 2015 by 1empyrean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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