Storyteller's Ballad

A story poem, a souvenir of a Storyteller.

The violent swords crossed their blades

Cutting through the heart so

Painful, so fierce I cried"

Cried blood of broken hearts.

Watching him die again unlike

Reading it all before grieves

The pain forevermore.

He waged a wager’s war through

Pride and madness of gold"

That Midas touch blesséd!

When that jealous battle came,

I told a tale of a wager’s war"

A killing machine, a war of wits

All upon his throne.

The Villain cut through his heart

Along the cliffs where heroes fell.

Then I came along to rescue my dying love

Where villains come to take a stab

In the dark.

Through his beating heart, I saw

My love come close to his foggy death,

His last breath.

Before he fell a hero’s fall,

Dread froze over, I shouted his name"

Seeing screams without a sound,

Eyes without a face,

Love without a heart.

I dashed to his side,

Racing time, racing death, reaching my warrior

One last time"

I wrapped him in my embrace

Around his heart and

Pulled him back to life!

Death nor life or its beautiful lies

Can ever tear us away.

After war comes the settling storm

And here is where I shall stay

To tell the tales of Far Away…

Bringing back my consign

Of Fairytales where nothing is real.

So do not get in my way;

All my friends jump up and run

To find the sun to warm

Their bleeding hearts and dirty bones rusting.

My fused emotions corked

Into a bottled ship

With all its tattered sails wet

Themselves in tears of the sea

As they sail somewhere Else

Into a possible, hopeful tomorrow.

Off to save my love again

For a forthcoming tale to tell

Where death gives life and life is where it ends.

Author's Note

Please feel free to give constructive criticism (what was good or could be better in the poem). Thanks!

Reviews

[Inject Positivity]

I have never tried my hand on story poems so it's a new experience for me... I think you have a unique way to write(most of us have) which is very different from others, your word choices along with your presentation glorifies this piece... As it is a free verse/story poem, it gives more opportunity for the poet to tell her thoughts of heart more expressing way... You have put lot of details into it which helps the story in the poem to flow and reach to the reader more clearly... Very well dear frnd...

Sincerely
Dhiman

[GalaxyGhost]

Thanks! I try to make my writing style as flexible as I'm still trying to figure out a style of my writing.