A to Z Blogging Challenge:
I is for Idyll
by
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
by
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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