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Message ID: 11285
Date: Mon Dec 6 17:09:55 GMT 1999
Author: Renee Cole
Subject: Re: Sometimes it's Hard to be a Bard


>Well, here's something I threw together last night:
>
>Sometimes it's Hard to be a Bard
>
>Sometimes it's hard to be a bard, although I have to say,
>I love it though it hurts to know it's changing every day
>In ways I think the gods must blink in puzzlement to see -
>The many ways these changing days have been the death of me.
>
>I've had a song, though not for long, a joy for me to play
>It let me fly across the sky, but then, the other day
>My levitate began to wait before it would relight
>And so I fell and died, oh well... a casualty of Flight.
>
>I have a greed for superspeed, I simply hate to wait
>To break a root, there's no dispute, Accelerando's great
>And then one day, to my dismay, ghoul-rooted and in need,
>My precious tune did nothing boon... a casualty of Speed.
>
>I've one refrain, a sonic chain - it slows the target down
>Reducing flight, and in a fight, it's justly won renown.
>A fleeing whelp returned with help; one change my fate explains -
>Since he had SoW, I could not slow... a casualty of Chains.
>
>I'm very sad to say I had the horrid luck to see
>Upon the plain, through fog and rain, The Thing That Must Not Be.
>To show their ire, the gods rained fire, and both of us were charred...
>Apparently the gods could see the Thing but not the bard.
>
>Sometimes it's hard to be a bard, although I have to say,
>I love it though it hurts to know it's changing every day
>In ways I think the gods must blink in puzzlement to see -
>The many ways these changing days have been the death of me.
>
>Aloro Silvertongue (E'ci)
>I'm sure there are some other stanzas I should include, but can't think of
>what other unintended/undocumented nerfs have hit us lately. Any
>suggestions?


*clap clap* bravo! well done!

-Treehugger and Songmaker