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| View Poll Results: What do you think about the principle of 'ReVersing' | |||
| Great! Keep it up! The poetry of the kind has an independent value, it deserves a book all to itself! |
   
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| Good! It is re-creative in a sense it lives opon other’s work, but good application of one’s creative abilities nevertheless. Just don’t expect much from it |
  
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| Indifferent. Really, it’s desultory. Have fun if you like, I don’t care, but stop forcing your megalomaniac ramblings on me! |
  
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| Horrible! How dared you to deal with Tolkien in such an insulting way! Don’t even think about ReVersing another piece of rhyme! |
  
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02-16-2005, 03:00 PM
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Scent of Simbelmynë
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town
Posts: 1,780
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A short attempt
Heren, you've taken all the good songs already.
 But I'll go for the Athelas verse, mercifully short it is. Original When the black breath blows and death's shadow grows and all lights pass, come athelas! come athelas! Life to the dying In the king's hand lying! ReVersed Where a white pause draws Or life's light shows flaws Or no dark stays Go loathsome haze! Go loathsome haze! Death to the living Out of peasant's foot giving  Well, who knows how close "loathsome haze" is to an opposite of "beneficial leaf", but at least it rhymes!Sophia
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