Category: Writers Block
Hear now the tale of the dragon sworn.
The race that was and would be.
The race that almost wasn’t,
The winged ones,
Gliding over mountain and above cloud,
The fire born,
The magic sworn.
Their time is come,
Their end near,
Where is there god?
Where is their magic?
Wings spread wide to fight back the inevitable,
But failure falling,
Doom darkening.
Forever lost,
Broken and forgotten,
The fires cooling,
Beneath the sky,
The young dying,
Through sorrow’s rage,
A solution unfounded,
Honor’s pride unbending,
The one solution they can not contemplate,
Will take shape through love’s sacrifice.
Through doom,
Through ice and fire’s glowing,
One forsakes her duty,
Falling and dying,
Transformed to an earth dweller,
A mortal through magic’s grace,
She knows the plight,
Not out of duty to the magic born,
But out of desire for what is forbidden,
And her true heart’s love,
She will honor the pledge made.
She is the first,
Heart’s song,
Heart’s Fire glowing,
Beloved and forsaken,
The earth walker,
The bringer of salvation and despair.
Remember those who died in sorrow and shame.
Remember those who long for another choice.
Remember the one that became two that became many.
It is there choice,
Through magic’s grace,
Through blood and fire,
They are the ones left,
They are the secret keepers,
The changelings born of both and belonging to neither.
When sorrow took her away,
And shame condemned the twice born,
They must make the choice or be forsaken,
They were left,
A salvation to the heights,
New blood bringing new life,
A race condemned finds forbidden hope.
A despair to the earth born,
Cursed by mortals for what they are,
Yet, they are the protectors of the earth-dwellers,
Born from love and forbidden magic,
They choose the path of their destiny,
From love’s desire and sorrow’s dying,
They are the dragon sworn.
Is this from a book?
This is a very good poem. There's a nice bit of imagery in this piece. This takes a tight hold of the reader's emotions, especially as you get closer to the end of the poem.
This does indeed look as though it were written for a fantasy novel. The title of this poem sounds like a really good book title.
Thanks for the replies. And, to all, yes. It is from a book, mine and yes, the working title at this point is Dragon Sworn. I haven't decided if I'm going to leave this at the begining or move it somewhere else, but I like it at the beginning for now.
Chastity
I would like to read your book.
Dragon Sworn is still in the early stages, but Child of Prophecy should be up on amazon.com on their kindle store hopefully by labor day, Sept. 7.
Dragon Sworn is sort of a prequel to the other one, but it doesn't affect Child of Prophecy directly, but does have an impact upon book 2. If you like; I can email you the first chapter of the completed work and you can let me know what you think.
Chastity
Wow1 So you're a published author? Congratulations!Do you ever put any of your books in progress up on fictionpress?
my god there are so many amazing writers up here it amazes me.
Anyway, I do very much like this piece, it keeps the reader's attention, slowly drawing them deeper and deeper into the poem. If it is indeed going to be part of a bigger collection I can only imagine the amount of vivid imagery and creativity that will be put into it, and I can't wait to read more.
Thanks
Jessica