I need help from all you poets out there

[Artimoff]

I play a bard in a first edition game and we roleplay the using of the spell components. Seeing how the bard casts druid spells ( yes, I know. It's effed up) I was told I didn't need to do this.

What I'm asking you is can some of you come up with limericks or Haikus for me to say at the gaming table for Druid spells.

I mostly use Faery Fire, Summon insects, warp wood, Neutralise poison, Cure light wounds, cure serious wounds, Dispel Magic, detect magic, and other druid spells less often.

I think this would really spice up the game for me and I stink at any form of poetry. I'd really apreciate the help.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Dispel Magic:

I wave my hands and
With some surprise you find that
Your magic is gone.

Cure Light Wounds:

You daft silly boy
Getting yourself hurt like that
So I cure light wounds

Summon Insects:

Summoning Insects
Is easy to do. All you need
Is the right honey.

 

[Bob5th]

Summon Insects:

Summoning Insects
Is easy to do. All you need
Is the right honey.

If this is supposed to be a Hakiu the middle line has eight not seven sylables.

 

[Ravellion]

If I summon some bees
You will quickly be saying please
soon you'll bleed
quickly you'll plead
Even more so when I add some fleas.

 

[Ravellion]

There is poison running through your veins
And before the horror in strength gains
I'll focus my magic
erase the tragic
And voila: I have removed the poisonous pains

 

[Kyramus]

I see you draw wood
it twists and deforms on you
and I laugh at you.


motes of light I call
wrap you in it's gleeful glow
now we all see you

 

[Maerdwyn]

Faerie fire:
Hated enemy,
Shielded by mist or darkness.
Now, hidden no more.

Insect swarm:
Heed my call once more:
As payment for your service,
I offer this feast.

Once well-shaped object:
If not unmade, at least spoiled,
by Nature's Fury

 

[Angcuru]

Sounds like a good idea, but three-line rhymes aren't poetry, unless you're going for a haiku.

 

[Arravis]

Some actual historical Haiku's that could easily be used for this purpose:

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The sharp-edged sword, unsheathed
cuts through the void...
within the raging fire
a cool wind blows.

-Shiaku Sho'on (15th c. I beleive)

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Inhale, exhale
forward, back
Living, dying:
arrows, let flown each to each
meet midway and slice
the void in aimless flight...
this I return to the source.

-Gesshu Soko (1696)

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Empty-handed I entered the world
barefoot I leave it.
my coming, my going...
two simple happenings
that got entangled.

-Kozan Ichikoy (1360)

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To hell with the Wind!
Confound the Rain!
I recognize no gods.
A blow like the stroke of lighting...
a world turns on its hinge.

-Nampo Jomyo (1308)

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Adrift between the earth and sky
I call to the east and change it to west.
I flourish my staff and return once again
to my source.

-Shun'ok Soen (1611)

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On a journey, ill;
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields.

-Basho (1694)

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My old boy:
a drop of dew grown
heavy at the leaf tip.

-Kiba (1868)

---

One leaf lets go, and
then another takes
the wind.

-Ransetsu (1707)

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Spitting up blood
clears up reality
and dream alike.

-Sunao (1926)

 

[Arravis]

Angcuru wrote:
**Sounds like a good idea, but three-line rhymes aren't poetry, unless you're going for a haiku.***

Well, if you're going for something that can be done as a single action, that's what you need. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner can't really be done in the middle of combat .