Ketektomy

[emailanimal he/him]

Let's translate the poetry of Earth, from the lowest schoolyard rhymes to the finest Shakespearean verse into Vorin languages.

Rules:

1. An actual piece of poetry (or so called poetry)
2. Translated as a ketek
3. Earth-specific references replaced with Rosharian realities.

Here is a start:

Fire Illuminates the breeches of a liar whose breeches are lit of fire.

 

This, of course, is the fifth tenet (or taunt) of Truthwatchers: Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Edited December 12, 2016 by emailanimal

[Sunbird she/her]

This sounds fun. Let's give it a go...

Library access grants fun wishes to one who wishes fun and is granted access to the library.

Original:

Spoiler

"Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card." - Marc Brown

 

[emailanimal he/him]

Errs one of two who name selves Talanel, as Talanel as a name of two is one error.

 

Spoiler

One of my favorite lines from early Mark Knopfler:

"Two men say they are Jesus, one of them must be wrong" (Industrial Disease, from Lover over Gold)

 

[Sunbird she/her]

Heh. Let's try one from a Brandon quote.

Ever confident, mostly the immature one, I am one with immaturity, the most confident ever.

Original:

Spoiler

"I've always been very confident in my immaturity." - The Final Empire

If anyone can come up with a better ketek of this quote, please share. I'm not very satisfied with mine.

[emailanimal he/him]

13 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

Ever confident, mostly the immature one, I am one with immaturity, the most confident ever.

 

 Confident with my immaturity always, always immature my confidence?

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Confidence in immaturity of self of immatity in confidence?

[Unodus he/him]

Sooner the lonelier pack Axhound finds Rockbud, finds Axhound pack lonelier the sooner.

[a play on "the early bird gets the worm". Although I guess it's closer to an allegory of "if you take all for yourself, you leave nothing for the others"- but that's only because I had to adapt it for ketek form x.x] <- does that count as "poetry"?

 

"Am I not what I am?"

[a very simple play on Iagos famous "I am not what I am" from Shakespeare's "Othello"]

Edited December 12, 2016 by Unodus

[emailanimal he/him]

2 hours ago, Unodus said:

Sooner the lonelier pack Axhound finds Rockbud, finds Axhound pack lonelier the sooner.

Funny, I was going to do this exact one with a songling and a cremling at some point. Beat me to it (-: