TheDwarfyOne

He's one of my favourites too! I'm not religious myself, but his evocation of nature, mixed with a feeling of majesty/the divine is potent. I could never match his linguistic brilliance, though. His poetry has a structure and style all its own.

Nope. About three years ago I read Lord of the Rings for the first time (blasphemously late, I know) and absolutely loved the poetry in it. Particularly the one on Beren and Luthien. So I thought to myself "hey, I'd like to give that a go." So I tried, and did badly, then read a lot of other poetry and slowly improved. This is perhaps a tangent, but here's one I did inspired by Beren and Luthien:

Perhaps "Conception" and "Actuality" would be more appropriate? I agree that 'Lie' and 'Truth' seem to be misleading names in this setting.

Thank you! Personally, I find it much easier to write poems around epic characters such as found in Tolkien. No need to show those pesky insecurities. But Kaladin's insecurities, alas, are what also make him such a compelling character.

To be completely fair, I'm not sure if I appreciate the idea of hemalurgic spikes and cookies mixing. However, I have yet to try it. It may be a good idea.

Hi. New to the Forums, and love the Cosmere. In particular, the Stormlight Archive, which I'm sure comes as no surprise. As an aside, I wasn't going to post here, but then I read some of the other posts new-comers had made. And I realised something profound. They got cookies. Now, we can do this the hard way, or the easy way. Either course will result in me getting a cookie.

I have repurposed this thread. Prior to now, it was dedicated to a single poem I wrote in regards to Kaladin. Here is the original post: However, I have since decided to make this a general Cosmere Poetry thread. I decided this when I realised that it would be silly to make multiple threads for individual poems: Instead, one place ought to do all. Whilst this thread serves the purpose of letting me post any Cosmere poetry I may write in the future, I would also more than welcome reading poems based on the Cosmere written by other 17th Shard users; as I understand it, you are a creative bunch. Happy writings!