ketek Keteks for all!

[Winds Alight she/her]

Happy World Poetry Day!

Windrunners, ever struggling, will arise, will struggle, ever running winds.

[Karger he/him]

Stick am I/ Phase is holy/ to say phase holy / Holy is phase/ I am Stick

[Mistbinder he/him]

Come tomorrow, light brings dawn upon us, upon dawn-brought light, tomorrow comes

[Ethan_sedai he/him]

This one was made slightly easier by ideas that already repeat:

Reason Circularly / like spheres / playing Terachin/ playing spheres / like circular reasoning.

how did I do? I only spent like five minutes or less on it. (Basically my attention span)

It practically wrote itself.

Edited April 25, 2019 by Ethan_Sedai

[Awaken Returner she/her]

Burning bright, / alight cross / golden hope / golden cross, / a light bright burning.

Mistborn Final Empire Spoilers:

Spoiler

Hope / "Am I." / dying."- / Un-dying, / "I am Hope"

Here's hoping to the restoration of a cultural treasure.

[Ethan_sedai he/him]

Another one from Lightsong:

terachin/ because circular reasoning/ like spheres/ like circular reasoning/ because terachin

[Winds Alight she/her]

I played around quite a bit this week:

Hearts of ours are?
Within beating
Drums
Beating within
Are our hearts.
... Listener themed, it seems.

Inside myself
Found my will
To live!
Will I find
Myself inside?

Doomed
I am living
Pain
Alive
Am I doomed?

And a fun one:
My hunger
For food persists
Life persisting
To feed
Hungry me

[Winds Alight she/her]

Okay, this one wins, period:

Quote

The storm ever blows east-to-west
And lightning and thunder shape, form storm in the listeners' hearts
Sing, invoke the power you hold! Behold your power of invocation, singing hearts!
The listeners in stormforn shape thunder and lightning
And west-to-east blows the Everstorm.

https://lightweaver-in-shadesmar.tumblr.com/post/184577582042/brandon-tweeted-out-this-ketek-someone-made-and

 

I am. In shock.

[SleepyWordsmith he/him]

Eshonai

A love for searching

Left a sister alone, finding darkness

Leading, darkness found

A lone sister is left

Searching for love

[SleepyWordsmith he/him]

Teft

Family betrayer, no will to live

Protect the hated, himself most of all

Broken, almost himself

The hated protecting, living

Will not betray this family

[askthepaperclip he/him]

I wrote this for my wife, who has metastatic breast cancer, and often struggles under the pressure/expectation to put on a brave face:

Persisting, struggling from noble courage, / the woman perseveres. / Thrive, / persevering woman! / The courage, noble from struggling, persists.

I stayed super slavish to the rules, including placement of things like articles (the, of, a, etc), since all the ones from the books were that way, but I notice a lot of fan Keteks are looser...I feel like I could do a lot more if it didn't have to be EXACTLY symmetrical except for verb tense. Do we have any WoB on how strict they need to be?

[The Wanderer]

This ketek was inspired by a solar eclipse

Radiant moonlight, eternal the , silence, the eternal moonlight, Radiant.

Edited October 11, 2019 by The Wanderer

[Honorless he/him]

How are these two:

I reused the themes of silence and dying from the book Keteks because they just worked so well

Spoiler

echoes silenced, the room empties, ending it so, and, so it ends, empty room, the silence echoes

Spoiler

light dies, by twisting shadows, revealing only bones as pale as moon, moon as pale as bones only revealing, shadows twisting, by dying light

I also wrote another one, though it's a bit less original:

Spoiler

Brilliance Rising

My Dreams

Of You Smiling

Smiling, you

Of Dreams Mine

Rose Brilliance 

I wrote them for an impromptu Creative Writing class poetry composition session, for the prompts 'echo', 'twist' and 'brilliant'

Edited October 11, 2019 by Honorless

[The Wanderer]

Truths obscured, shadows whisper, Radiant whispers, shadows obscure, Truth.

[thegatorgirl00 she/her]

I got bored today and wrote a ketek about Odium

Spoiler

Passion

Most seductive drug

Kill the hated

Hatred, the killing drug

Seducing most passionate

 

[Karger he/him]

I could be completely wrong but don't some of these technically break ketek rules?

[Honorless he/him]

16 hours ago, Karger said:

I could be completely wrong but don't some of these technically break ketek rules?

Sort of

A Ketek is a poem in a palindrome structure, with allowances for changes in verb form. Basically, tense changes that use a different base form for conjugation or verb form to noun form conversions (or vice-versa) aren't allowed.

There's also a rule that every section has to make sense individually as well as in concert

And finally, that there should be no more than five sections

Palindrome structure is already hard enough anyway. The rules that were broken aren't really necessary since we're not Vorin and Vorinism isn't a real-world religion. Breaking rule 3 or even second part of rule 1 doesn't really diminish the beauty or complexity of the poems.

Edited October 21, 2019 by Honorless

[SirWolfe]

A poem with structure

Following rules and oaths

Honoring Honor

Oaths and rules are followed

A structure with poetry

[thegatorgirl00 she/her]

I know this breaks a couple rules, but it was the best I could do in trying to retell this story as a ketek. 

City free of light

Monsters separated, humans afraid 

Curious and climbing and curiously unafraid 

Humanity separated, monsters 

Light of a freed city

[Selesria she/her]

Glad I found this. I've been intrigued by keteks ever since reading the first one and noticing the pattern in the books' headlines. Still amazed how people come up with great poetry like this!

Wrote one on my own a year or so ago, it's only slightly influenced by the Knights Radiants

Greatness - Radiating Inside - Alight forever - Alight inside - Radiating Greatness

[Justice]

Throwing my hat in the ring:

 

Failing in journey, learn, stumble; learning to journey in failure

[PiedPiper she/her]

I composed this Ketek. Let me know what you think; I'm open to critiques, suggestions, feedback, etc.

Art of beauty and grace, the end-all, be-all.
Conveys meaning without language.
Different forms serve functions; different functions serve forms differently.
Language without meaning conveyed:
All be, all end the grace and beauty of art.

Edited May 31, 2020 by PiedPeterPiper

[Justice]

If you’ve never heard the song I Palindrome I by They Might Be Giants this will be new to you:

"Son I am able, " she said "though you scare me."
"Watch, " said I
"Beloved, " I said "watch me scare you though." said she,
"Able am I, Son."

[PiedPiper she/her]

Stories believed to imaginative extents
Can all words bring to life such wonder?
We know, we live; in life we know we wonder.
Such life to bring!
Words all can extend imagination to believe stories.
 

Any feedback, anyone?

[askthepaperclip he/him]

2 hours ago, PiedPeterPiper said:

Stories believed to imaginative extents
Can all words bring to life such wonder?
We know, we live; in life we know we wonder.
Such life to bring!
Words all can extend imagination to believe stories.
 

Any feedback, anyone?

Beautiful phrasing, and evocative imagery! Does the breakdown of the five segments need to be equal forward and backward though? I always assumed so, which makes things much harder. If this is legit though, bravo!