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fallen, key, bright, stone

 

Fallen heroes beneath the Stone

Facing Death with courage; alone

To Honor they have found the Key

Bright is their story in my memory

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While One Alone battles the dragons

Some sit drowning action in flagons

As they tell lies to gain false fame

A real hero faces the dragon's flame

 

 

/me cuts the epic short. :D :D

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fallen, key, bright, stone

 

While the bard, it seems,

will sing a song, of fallen heroes

turned to stone, he will sing too

of those with futures bright.

 

The key to the bard's song is not

in the details that he overstates,

but the truth behind the adventure

of many great heroes, make no mistakes.

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Often when drunk I've fallen before I reached my door

And with the key clutched in my hand I pass out on the floor

Then in the morning waken, not feeling very bright

And find the lintel stone has been my pillow for the night.

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Fallen stone, a broken arch

Reminders of time's march.

Once our future looked so bright

Now remains but approaching night

To our fortune we once held the key

But wasted this our opportunity

 

A mighty power did we wield

None dared oppose us in the field

The power of gods was in our hand

We let it run away, like sand

In greed's tight grip we were held fast

An empire which could not last

 

With the gifts we had been given

For the good of all we should have striven

Yet it was but our own glory that we sought

For grandiose ambitions that we fought

We lost sight of what could have been

Forgot the visions we had seen

 

Out of the North they came

Merciless, with steel and flame

Our hybris was brought down

Shattered empire and crown

Into the mists of time we fade

Forgotten now all we once made

Ruins are all you may find

All that time's march left behind.

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sure you can.

Just do it.

As The Fairy GothMother has spoken...

 

"So let me throw down the gauntlet, and challenge you to participate in the poetry game. The rules are simple - a few words are given, and the task is to incorporate them into a poem. Whether it rhymes or not is up to you, whether you choose to use the given words in an epic of Homerian proportions or a Haiku is up to you."

 

Pick your own words and go for it

 

 

Edit:

 

Here is the only thing I could manage with my own picked words.

 

...

EndGame

Checkmate in three.

 

Outflanking a Battery of helpless pawns

white knight moves to an unguarded Square

 

threatening both queen and king with a Fork

then from the board goes the king's lady fair

 

too late to turn over a new Leaf in this game

the reckless player once again loses his head

 

and attempts too much with too little power

Queen takes pawn and "Shah mat!" The King is Dead.

 

Play again?

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Can I do one NOT using those words?

Just start a new thread for poetry not related to this game - there's a whole new forum to fill :)

 

And now:

 

fork battery leaf square

 

 

These words, they don't inspire me,

What's poetic about a battery????

Though I confess - I'd thought of a verse on animal husbandry.

 

But your appetite I didn't want to spoil

Make from the chicken on your fork in horror you recoil

This I pondered, while raking fallen leaf into the soil.

 

So I think I shall pass on this round

And go back to my square of ground

Perhaps later inspiration I'll have found.

 

:P

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