Daniel Chambers

Nice! @Spoolofwhool I don't think that keteks are necessarily bad if the grammatical structure of wordage is changed to make it work. If you have to finagle, you're most of the time doing something right, the way I see it. Also, this reminded me of something that I heard last week: several people were rehearsing something for a theater thing at school, and they said the phrase "just as he said" like "justice he said," which got me to thinking: would certain fusions or fissions of words, keeping the meter and sound mostly the same, be considered legitimate in a ketek? I personally think they could be, and if people would be a bit stingy about it, then it could exist as a lower level ketek, but I believe that ideas like this and other wordsmithing should be encouraged- the more fluid you can make a palindromic sentence or phrase, the better your skill and craft, I believe.Maybe just my take- any thoughts?

Back with another. Two variants of the same. A little backstory on this one: I needed a senior quote and couldn't think up a good one, so I decided to make it a ketek: Life: Schooling highly outranks pitiful time regarding rest and relaxation, for stopping for relaxation and resting regards time pitifully, outranking high school life. However, I didn't know until after I'd written this that the word limit was 15 words. Perfect for a short ketek: 7-1-7: Life: Schooling highly outranks time for freedom. Graduating: Freedom for time outranks high school life. Not my best, but I was proud of my being able to technically make two keteks in under 15 minutes, as well as being able to fit one of them into my senior quote! Keteks are best poetic art form.

I got more! Mine tend not to always be split into five parts, but I feel they're keteks still. Ears open upon fall sounds. Happy sounds fall upon open ears. I'm no sure if these next two are 'legal' either, because they use homonyms, but I think that allows for a larger opportunity for craft and craftiness, so I consider them legitimate. Night breathes, consuming quick yellow streaks in their air. Breaking dawn breaks air there in streaks, yellow, quickly consuming breathless night. Their song fills heaven, spiraling endlessly on. Haste to sing! Two is but one for these, and joy dawns again. Mirth again dawns joy and these for one, but is too singing to hasten on endlessly, spiraling heaven-filled songs there. These are too fun to write- great brain games, fun to read, and neat to ponder on how exactly to get them to work.

Thanks! I came up with them when I was supposed to be reading Shakespeare. Hamlet can wait- a new form of literary art has arrived in my horizons.

Hey, so I just stumbled upon this because I just finished the Way of Kings and started WoR recently. I fell in love with keteks and made about five of them so far. Not sure if all of them fit the five-section thing, as my intent was more in creating a ketek that perfectly was symmetrical, regardless of spacing, punctuation, and grammar. Here are my submissions, if you can call them that: Want to live? To cease not, do inversely: do not cease to live to want. Yellow in day, light paves sun, the silence, and breath whispers joy, whispers breath and silences the sun, paves daylight in yellow. Sight brings opportunity, which begs thought: how is it found? It is how thought begs, “Which opportunity brings sight?” Crying, in sunlight, drowns the clouds. They that tear form water, falling, and falling, water forms tears that they, the clouds, drown sunlight in crying. Redeem thyself, doing so in service to others. Guiding others to service, in so doing, thyself redeems. These are my five. The first is only into 3 parts, as I can make out, but the second, third, fourth, and fifth can be broken into five. As a side note, I get ridiculously enraptured with obscure forms of poetry when I first find out about them. When I went through my super haiku phase, I wrote a story entirely of haiku. I may attempt the same with keteks- if I do, I'll post them here. And yes, I know I'm resurrecting a dormant thread, but hey- poetry never dies. Let's hope I reinvigorated it back into working order. :D