One of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, created a short poetry form called a ketek. It’s a short reflexive form of poetry in which every word is mirrored around a center word. The word forms can change, noun to adjective, future past, etc (ex: happy can turn into happiness, slept to sleeping or sleep). You can put in any punctuation but no added words that don’t mirror. Here’s an example from one of his books: “You, always about dreams. My soul weeps. Farewell weeping soul. My dreams about, always, you. “ So the challenge is write a ketek. It could be about whatever you want, just follow the rules.

REllyn

Cousin died giving birth 2 nights hence. Baby’s fine.

Again begin? Stop. Full cry, lustful vigor! ... Baby's breath: for pale death. ...

LIFE.

Deathly pale fore breathing baby's vigorous, lusty cry. Full stop. ... Begin again.

Challenge

Write a Ketek

One of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, created a short poetry form called a ketek. It’s a short reflexive form of poetry in which every word is mirrored around a center word. The word forms can change, noun to adjective, future past, etc (ex: happy can turn into happiness, slept to sleeping or sleep). You can put in any punctuation but no added words that don’t mirror. Here’s an example from one of his books: “You, always about dreams. My soul weeps. Farewell weeping soul. My dreams about, always, you. “ So the challenge is write a ketek. It could be about whatever you want, just follow the rules.

Evagria13

Simply stated, your memory, whispers hate and spits fire. Fire spits. Hate whispers. Memories of you, stated simply.

Challenge

Write a Ketek

One of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, created a short poetry form called a ketek. It’s a short reflexive form of poetry in which every word is mirrored around a center word. The word forms can change, noun to adjective, future past, etc (ex: happy can turn into happiness, slept to sleeping or sleep). You can put in any punctuation but no added words that don’t mirror. Here’s an example from one of his books: “You, always about dreams. My soul weeps. Farewell weeping soul. My dreams about, always, you. “ So the challenge is write a ketek. It could be about whatever you want, just follow the rules.

FreshwaterFish

Lost Soul

Sleeping, coma, in darkness and despair. Mine eyes has disappeared. Drowning Bitterly. Comatose sleep, despairing in the dark.

Challenge

Write a Ketek

One of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, created a short poetry form called a ketek. It’s a short reflexive form of poetry in which every word is mirrored around a center word. The word forms can change, noun to adjective, future past, etc (ex: happy can turn into happiness, slept to sleeping or sleep). You can put in any punctuation but no added words that don’t mirror. Here’s an example from one of his books: “You, always about dreams. My soul weeps. Farewell weeping soul. My dreams about, always, you. “ So the challenge is write a ketek. It could be about whatever you want, just follow the rules.

mother_rose

springtime memories

flowers blooming everywhere. children laugh and play. i love emerging animals. the animals emerge, loving. i play and laugh. children everywhere. blooming flowers.

Challenge

First lines

Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from

SamWebster

My favorite first lines

It's always a tie for me between:

"Our is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." - Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

and the equally impactful:

"It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute." - Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins.

Challenge

Write a Ketek

One of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, created a short poetry form called a ketek. It’s a short reflexive form of poetry in which every word is mirrored around a center word. The word forms can change, noun to adjective, future past, etc (ex: happy can turn into happiness, slept to sleeping or sleep). You can put in any punctuation but no added words that don’t mirror. Here’s an example from one of his books: “You, always about dreams. My soul weeps. Farewell weeping soul. My dreams about, always, you. “ So the challenge is write a ketek. It could be about whatever you want, just follow the rules.

Theemrose

Lonely dream

Dream, tonight’s heart, beating softly in darkness. Loneliness, darkness, in softly beating heart. Tonight’s dream.

Challenge

Write a Ketek

One of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, created a short poetry form called a ketek. It’s a short reflexive form of poetry in which every word is mirrored around a center word. The word forms can change, noun to adjective, future past, etc (ex: happy can turn into happiness, slept to sleeping or sleep). You can put in any punctuation but no added words that don’t mirror. Here’s an example from one of his books: “You, always about dreams. My soul weeps. Farewell weeping soul. My dreams about, always, you. “ So the challenge is write a ketek. It could be about whatever you want, just follow the rules.

MeeJong

(A Ketek)

Within darkness, the stars dance for the Lost for the dance stars the darkness within.

Challenge

First lines

Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from

GerardDiLeo

The Life and Times of Climax Johnson

Climax Johnson never resented being named Climax Johnson--Johnson, after who his father was, and Climax after what his father did.

Challenge

First lines

Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from

Joules

Poe

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Challenge

First lines

Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from

Luciwuzhere

First Line

The day you sit old and alone in a house surrounded by all your clutter and trinkets that were so valuable to you, then can you answer me this question: Was I wrong?

From one of my own works.