A to Z Blogging Challenge: I is for Idyll

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

I is for Idyll

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Tempest Nightingale LeTrope

An Idyll or Idyl is poetry that either depicts a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bygone age.

Mine is a story of a fantastic setting. It does not rhyme, but I haven't found any indication that an Idyll must rhyme.

Fovrac

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Tempest Nightingale LeTrope

(For H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe)

Just outside Celephais, at the base of Mount Aran

The Estate of Fovrac stands

A palace kingly, in a field of yellow tulips

When kissed with morning dew, they glisten as if sprinkled with diamonds

Orange trees grow in the orchards of Fovrac

Velvet draperies of golden hue hang in the palace windows

The flowers of the yellow flax sway gently in the breeze

Peacocks fly occasionally from their perches in the trees down to the ground

A golden spire tops the tallest tower of the Palace of Fovrac

At night a telescope can be seen from the opening in the observatory

Pointing towards Polaris

While night-birds brought from Zakarion fly above the fields

The palace made from the marble of Zobna

Glistens white as the Moon herself

Against the jet black night

A zone of celestial beauty in a terrestrial locale

Many journey from all over space and time

To behold a place of such eternal splendor

Yet has any soul ever observed the lord and master of it all

To emerge from his kingly lair at any time?

A queer thing it is that he would not enjoy the pastoral gardens

That he would not stroll through the yellow fields of flax

Why does the King not take pleasure in his beautiful domain?

Why does he keep himself prisoner within his marble palace?

~Tempest~

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