Author: Dreamflower
Title: Ode to the Shire: Arising from quiet fields...
Rating: G
Theme: Poetry--Ode to Arda
Elements: kind/find
Author's Notes: I decided to intersperse the quotations that inspired this poem at the end of each verse ( Read more... )

Author: LadyBrooke
Title: Of Him They Do Not Sing
Rating: Gen
Theme: Ode To Arda
Elements: word pair: spring/king
Author's Notes: I tried writing this, specifically a pindaric ode because I am bad at meter (really, at any type of structured poetry). Also, there's a surrounding story that explains where this ode comes from, because it felt lacking ( Read more... )

Author: Himring
Title: In Praise of the Feast at Ivrin
Rating: G
Theme: Ode to Arda
Elements: mist/kissed
Author's Notes: This is a poem in praise of a canonical event of the First Age. I've dropped the requirement of regular metre entirely, I'm afraid, but I have tried to retain the three-part structure that classical odes often have. Also, as ( Read more... )

Author: Larner
Title: On the Need for the King
Rating: PG
Theme: Poetry: Ode
Elements: rhyming words verdant/urgent
Author's Notes: This will be included within a longer work that answers the last two challenges, to be posted I hope this week. For Inzilbeth_Liz for her birthday.
Summary: An ode regarding the arrival of the King Returned ( Read more... )

Author: burning_night
Title: The White City
Rating: G
Theme: Ode To Arda
Elements: Rejoice/Voice
Author's Notes: I've never attempted an ode, so this was both fun and nerve-wracking. Hopefully 'voiced' counts as using my word ;)Summary: An ode to the Tower of the Sun, the City of the King.
Word Count: 69

( The White City )

Author: Antane
Title: Naked in the Dark
Rating: PG
Author Notes: Frodo at the Fire as he claims the Ring and is claimed by it and also claimed by another. Inspired by jan-u-wine’s poem of the same name. My element was ‘mountain’ which is very interesting as I had already written much of this before I received that. Though the first part deals with the ( Read more... )

The April Challenge entries, with the theme of "Poetry" have now been posted. Each participant was given a single word to be used in the poem. We’ve had thirteen entries by nine authors.

The April 2011 Poetry Challenge

Rosie's Song, by Armariel Rosie Cotton rejoices at Sam's return.
Ode to a Hopeless Love -- by Larner After the Fellowship left ( Read more... )

 Author: Adonnen Estenniel (alphien )
Title: "Where the Moon Walks"
Rating: PG
Theme: poem
Elements: verb - walk
Summary: Thorin & Co. on Erebor. 
Wordcount: 61

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Author: Celeritas
Title: A Wedding Song
Rating: G
Theme: Poetry
Elements: drink
Author's Notes: Written while I was hashing out how hobbit weddings would look in my take on the Shire.
Summary: A hobbit wedding song
Word Count: 139

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Author: Celeritas
Title: Another Wedding Song
Rating: PG
Theme: Poetry
Elements: sky
Author's Notes: Written while I was hashing out how hobbit weddings would look in my take on the Shire.
Summary: A hobbit wedding song
Word Count: 44

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