(05-09-2016, 01:57 AM)Gentian Wrote: I have a lot of threads here. Gray suggested a while ago that I create a general thread for my pics, to make them easier to find. Sounds like a good idea. With all the verbal abortions I squeeze out, a general for them is probably in order too. So, with that in mind, I'm going to put links to my extant poetry/song/whatever threads here, and add something new too. In the future, this will be where my new stuff will end up being posted.
Thanks, Gray.
Hey There Twilight : http://waifucentral.com/thread-546.html
I Poemed For Twiwi: http://waifucentral.com/thread-552.html
Boomdeyada: http://waifucentral.com/thread-554.html
An Equestrian Sonnet: http://waifucentral.com/thread-585.html
Equestrian Rhapsody: http://waifucentral.com/thread-596.html
Now for the new thingie.
The Villanous Noble introduced me to a new kind of poem called a tanka. A little research shows it's format is surprisingly varied, but in the west, is most commonly given a 5/7/5/7/7 meter, and may or may not contain a volte.
Here's a humble attempt: A Demigoddess Goes Slumming
In darkness she grins
calling her power, sparkling
eyes in horn's soft light,
but brighter still her heart flares:
Violet burns for Gentian.
Oh I didn't know you had so many poems. I had to save Boomdeyada, because it made me tear up. Years ago, when watching the Discovery Channel, would also bring me great joy. And all your other poems are, sweet. I love your poems. I'm sure Twilight loves them too
(06-11-2016, 12:31 AM)Gentian Wrote: This is something I wrote at McDonald's during break today. Between the Loco Moco Burger, chicken nuggets with curry sauce, fries, and summer-orange shake, I started thinking of MLP. From there, it's usually a short hop over to Twilight, but this time, she came in a round-about way.
You see, through the window, I was watching an excavator digging trenches for a new building. The stones and dirt it pulled up reminded me of Maud, and her poetry. I said to myself: "I've never written a free-form poem a la Maud before." Can't let that slide, now can I? So I put away my newest cutie mark-patch, project, ignored the gaggle of high school girls in very short skirts who seemed to think a restaurant was the perfect place for practicing folk dance, and put pen to paper. Twilight, as my muse, popped in to inspire me, and this is what I came up with.
Please enjoy!
Hmmm, this is not good. The spaces are an integral part of the poem, but WC keeps auto-formating them out. Well, it's also up on my DA journal, in the format I intended. The link is the "website" button below my sig, if you want to see it.
Purple
Purple
Red and blue
Red
Fortunate red
Passionate red
Fortunate in friendships
Fortunate in victories
Passionate for life
Passionate for knowledge
Blue
Blue blood
Bluestocking
Beautiful in bravery
Brave in brilliance
Brilliant in beauty
Red and blue
Purple
The richest color
668-789 trillion cycles a second.
380-450 nanometers between crests.
8 1/2 thousand lives
snuffed out
for a single pure gram.
Purple
Fortune and passion
Beauty, bravery, brilliance
Nobility
My purple Lady
My purple pony
My purple Princess
Twilight Sparkle
Body of purple
Embodiment of purple
Purple
Also really nice. Will need to visit your, website to view propper formatting. Will likely save too
Update, can't find the, website button or whatever