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Statue's Tear

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The howling wind of the north,

Blisters the hallways with cold.

And through dank passages come forth,

A statue with face condoled.

 

Frozen in time for an eternity,

Left to live alone.

A king he was, ruling so blindly,

Sat on his marble throne.

 

His emotions unstable,

A curse befell upon his crown.

In his final moments, he was able

To shed a single tear renown.

 

Now that tear lay dormant,

Forever imbued in stone.

And many memories absent,

Better off unknown.

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I like this. It would fit a legend for a RP world, the sort of thing the adventurers hear the wandering minstrel sing as the "hook".

 

Some of the verb tensed seem a little awkward to me though - for instance, I thought "condoled" was a shared feeling of misery or grief. "I condoled with him". Used in the singular, wouldn't it be condoling (which doesn't fit the rhyme).

 

I think you have something good here. You say you worked on it - and in my opinion, it shows.

 

-Peredhil

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I think the lad is allowed a little poetic licence Peredhil ;)

 

I enjoyed this - I agree with Pere about the RPG type feel, very nice and an eeire and desolate feel from it with a sense of pride ages dead.

 

:wolf:

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