Epics

The Bounty by Jonas Hyde Oh life, my life, this is my sorrow, oh death, my death, can you offer me no pity? If only I were more guile or more witty, I would surely wake in the ‘morrow. At the start I fell to Tempter’s ploy, and in the while since have truly...
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Pendragon by Jonas Hyde Over the next few weeks I will be posting the newest released work.  Titled Pendragon, it covers the mythos of King Arthur.   There are 12 sections to the poem, each of varying length.  This is the first of twelve.  As always, questions and comments are welcome… -I- In the...
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Lady of my Dreams by Jonas Hyde Lady of my Dreams, of frail frame and soul that glistens and gleams, how I so long for thee, in a way that is not as it seems, for I need thee to live and breath. Raven’s hair, and skin so fair, how I so long for...
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The Bard’s Sword by Jonas Hyde The Bard’s Sword is a follow-up piece to the Seraph’s Song -I- Its been days and more, since I penned the Seraph’s Song, and journey far I have in days since, in search of truth forgotten, carrying my bard’s sword. For all my life long, I have known...
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Seraph’s Song: The Epic Fable of Sister Sera by Jonas Hyde I – Fall from Grace In the beginning, a line spoken so oft ‘fore, yet the truth lie hidden, on what happened the eighth day, and since that time of yore, as chanted near pillows of people’s, is this Seraph’s Song e’ermore. How...
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The Days and Nights of Sir Alistair Helling: The House of Ill Repute By Jonas Hyde The Days and Nights of Sir Alistair Helling: The House of Ill Repute By Jonas Hyde Intriguing, it is to this certain self, how I e’er find myself in situations, particularly ones such as this chronicle ‘fore you....
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Lament for Lady Beth by Jonas Hyde Once there was a man who walked this cobbled street, with quill and ink in hand, who accomplished such a magnificent feat, on a scale so wide and grand, for he was a poet true, known far across this land, as a smith of words, oft who,...
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Insula de Verum by Jonas Hyde Act One 10, June 1790 Strait of Juan de Fuca Through the gossamer obscurity of the evening’s shadow, dwelling firm upon the tide spawned from the strength of Neptune’s shoulders, rippled with his labored breath, nigh a moment of Life’s pulse past the crepuscule, I challenged the pluvious...
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