Elemental Lights

a story poem

 

The path was vaste and blackened

like silence

broken only by the distant sun in radiant shades of orange and red

leaking spillage from atop mountain tops and foliage

everything had it’s own hue if gray and shade of colorless pale

there in the loneliness of shrubbery bush and flower wilt

walked a solitary guild

the ominous glow of pure color pulsated into the night

waves of bright in the shallow light of the darkness

like shards of sharp downcast

little creatures scampered with razor sharp teeth limberly quivering

and tails tucked under their bottoms cowering

heathens!

how taut their claws hover over head

retracting briskly, sucking inwardly themselves

until they vanish in the light like dust taking flight

It is the wake of the endless day

following by and by the darkest hour

strangers stand in four to bring a balance in the color war

From nothingness they spore

and grew from within the earth’s roots

spreading forth far and wide seeds of lore

in the deepest grain of the soil they were tamed

lullabies sing in the wind

brushing the trees gently

telling the story of peace and harmony and all the world was meant to be

as they suckled on the supple n****e of nectar leaves

the moon caressed their dreams with images of ages old

when sweet springs flowed

and fires burned to nourish the birth of the spirits girth

when the day came that they stood as man they began to understand

the passage to their given right

summoning the wake of the Elemental Lights

each one possessed a mystic power over

one of the four primordial quintesses of the world

 

I am that dim star in the night

with quill and sky

as my parchment and ply

scribing the flow of events

as they unfold before my milky eye

and so it is

and so it begins..

Author's Note

just an idea i'm playing around with. thinking about creating a story much like a book only completely in poetic form... call this the extreme rough draft or tickle in the back of my mind...

Reviews

[Arthur Crow]

Keep playing around with it.. this is amazingly descriptive and I found the entire read captivating!