We have left you,
The thousand chosen,
Kept you all safe here, at the fall.
There is a door,
And you must find it,
There is a door, within the wall.
Be the brave ones,
Then pass beyond it,
The Mothers shall rise, at the call.
*This poem is the opening page to my new middle grade dystopia, OCULUM (Dancing Cat Books, 2018). It is the first poem I've ever used as part of a plot, and in the case of this story it is both an invocation and a warning. I didn't read all those dwarf and elf poems and songs in The Hobbit over and over again as an 11-year-old for nothing (although unlike Tolkien, I stopped at 3 stanzas)!
The thousand chosen,
Kept you all safe here, at the fall.
There is a door,
And you must find it,
There is a door, within the wall.
Be the brave ones,
Then pass beyond it,
The Mothers shall rise, at the call.
*This poem is the opening page to my new middle grade dystopia, OCULUM (Dancing Cat Books, 2018). It is the first poem I've ever used as part of a plot, and in the case of this story it is both an invocation and a warning. I didn't read all those dwarf and elf poems and songs in The Hobbit over and over again as an 11-year-old for nothing (although unlike Tolkien, I stopped at 3 stanzas)!
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| OCULUM (Dancing Cat Books) Cover by Emma Dolan |
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