Wednesday's Verse - Rising Knights
This week’s verse moves from a science fiction verse about mining asteroids to a slightly futuristic fantasy poem about trolls and rising heroes. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rising Knights Singing, the troll birds come from beneath the bridges of the world, swarming and screaming, hunting across the sleeping suburbs, worse than the zombie herds, that trample from the undead lands, moaning. We shut the bridge-doors down, but, ev’ry single night, they open once again, gateways of death, horror, and bloody doom, until from within us, bloodlines stirred, long dormant, but, now awake. Children, chosen by chance of birth and parentage, at first bewildered and confused, then not, rising to the challenge of a changed world,...
