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[ttlyisabard]

What kind of singer am I if I can't even write my own lyrics?

[There's movement, rustling papers and the sounds of books being dropped onto a table. Kate has been reading through the library now that it's safe again, searching for inspiration. She had started to transcribe ballads from her world, but stopped when they brought back memories she

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[withanokka]

I can write poetry! I'm really good at haikus. I don't know of anything in the library, though, sorry, I haven't gotten to reading in there yet.

[Misplaced confidence, thy name is Sokka.]

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[ttlyisabard]

What's a haiku? It sounds dwarven ...

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[withanokka]

No, it's this type of poem that's got three lines with five, seven, then five syllables.

[ttlyisabard]

OH ... its a structure ... could you tell me a few?

[powerofgod]

Langston Hughes.

[ttlyisabard]

[The coms are silent for a few minutes, then the audio turns back on to the sound of pages turning.]

What's your favorite poem of his? I found a book ...

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[powerofgod]

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' is one I'm fond of.

What sort of poetry are you looking to be inspired by?

[haveuseenmyass]

The humming kind of singer. I've listened to them before and they're not half bad?

[ttlyisabard]

But I can sing other people's lyrics ...

[haveuseenmyass]

I'd loan you a few songs that I know, but I'm no singer. For the sake of everyone involved, you humming might be the better alternative.

[ttlyisabard]

[She gasped, and then her voice stopped in her throat.]

Ah ... are you implying that my voice is unpleasant?

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[meinxxherz]

Maya Angelou

frank bidart

Emily dickinson

oscar wilde

jane austen

Micheal burch

william Shakespeare

[ttlyisabard]

Uh ... wow ... I'll look through those. I saw Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare earlier ... they didn't seem like singing poems ... good stories though. Both very funny ...

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[meinxxherz]

robert frost too

im sorry i don

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[meinxxherz]

O--Okay, sorry.

This is just--this is easier.

Uhm, I--I-I'm sorry if some don't work, but, uh--b-but you could always find a--a-a--anthologies through one author. Also, uhm, if--i-if you check the back of--o-of some books? They suggest similar authors or--o-or publications by the same printing house.

[ixgideonxi]

"Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."

...That's by Robert Frost, by the way. A little poem called "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Oh! And uh, Emerson is good too.

[ttlyisabard]

That's ... a little depressing ... It has good flow though ...

What's Eden? Wasn't that in the Old Testament?

[ixgideonxi]

Eden? Yeah. The Garden of Eden was paradise on Earth, basically, built by God for man. The first humans lived in it until they sinned and were cast out into the world.

[ttlyisabard]

Sounds similar to a story on my world ... I guess these things keep repeating themselves.