This is a poem I wrote awhile back, its published in some poetry contest book, but I just like it cause it's based on my favorite book, Tithe. It was only ten lines long but I just wrote the rest. I would like some feed back if anyone reads it.
Rath Roiben Raye!
With your hair of silver and eyes of grey,
daunt me not, but woo me sweetly;
for though you be foe, I love you discreetly.
Of different clans we are destined to be
but into your eyes I wish to see.
An arrow of thorns that is lodged in your heart
is all that prevents us from being apart.
The flesh of the fruit, so juicy and red
would be as my heart as you over me bled.
The queen of the fae, or those of Unseely
would bind me and tithe me and never would free me.
Your name I might use, force you to kill
do this for me, in spite of your will.
In death may we meet, in life we may not
new beginnings ensue as you leave me to rot.
Our love you deny, for sake of my own
a riddle to me you did intone,
a faerie who lies cannot be found.
But I can and I will, to our love am I bound
'A faerie who lies' scoff the gentry of fae
then how do I lie? and I do, as I lay.
2 comments:
This seems beautiful and sad to me at the same time. I'm not sure I understand it, but it doesn't seem happy ever after.
well, in the book, the girl is supposed to be sacrificed in a tithe, and she knows his true name and fae can be controlled by their names. So she used his name to free herself and he defeats the evil queen, so he is now the King, and she proclaims her love to him. When a faerie does that the king is supposed to give her a quest to go on. Faeries can't lie, not even about silly stuff, so he tells her to find a faerie who can tell a lie, and at the end of the book she says "I can lie, I am a faerie who can lie". It's a riddle because later when he asks how she did it, she lays down on the ground and says "See, this is me, this is me lying".
It's my favorite trilogy, written by Holly Black.
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