Faery

By Butterfly

In front of a candle she sits, stares...
Her golden faery eyes fixed on the candle flame
Images dance on her fair features
Shadows and light mix and float through the cool spring air
Oaken soldiers stand around looking suspiciously upon her prophecy
The shadows play with their features
The faery girl screams as the flame consumes her
Nobody moves to help
She screams in agonizing pain
She stands and rises up to float around the forest clearing
"You will all pay for this injustice!"
She wails again in pain
None bow their heads in shame
They just look on with black unfeeling faces
Dark clouds boil into the clear starry sky
The moon, full and round, blinks out as it's hidden by clouds
Brilliant violet lightning strikes the grassy clearing
So close to her it singes the hair on her milky white arm
All are frozen as the tranquil clearing is engulfed by flames
Suddenly...
Raindrops fall on her pale still face
Her golden hawk-like eyes open in sudden awareness
Using her thin silvery wings she shields herself from the onslaught of rain
She looks around to see her candle long extinguished
The oak trees still stand firm around her
No flame
All is how it started
She shakes the vision from her mind
The moon is bright and the rain begins to fall harder
She takes refuge in a hollowed out tree and contemplates what she has seen in her mind's eye...
The end of the world.

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Copyright 2004 Erica Evans
Published on Friday, September 3, 2004.     Filed under: "Fantasy" and "Poetry"
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  • TheBardOfBlasphemy On Monday, September 26, 2005, TheBardOfBlasphemy (358)By person wrote:

    spooky... scary... cool... nice images and storyline...

  • Kinkypoptart On Monday, April 18, 2005, Kinkypoptart (555)By person wrote:

    Such an imagination you have, my dear. such an imagination. You made me feel as if I was standing there in the middle of this poem. Awesome write ~*~Tart~*~

  • xDeAthxPerCepTioNxReaLiTyx On Sunday, October 24, 2004, xDeAthxPerCepTioNxReaLiTyx (36)By person wrote:

    Wow. That is awesome. Very good visionary of the scene. I could picture it perfectly.

  • Butterfly On Friday, September 3, 2004, Butterfly (99)By person wrote:

    Thank you guys

  • Dayer On Friday, September 3, 2004, Dayer (162)By person wrote:

    Wow, very impressive writing

  • mysticventures On Friday, September 3, 2004, mysticventures (538)By person wrote:

    Absolutely brilliant!!! Loved the visions, the feelings I got while reading, everything - just brilliant!


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