(lines 1 - 25) Canto I: The Trail (For various reasons, I had to leave) My hometown, no longer a retreat Memories made there scarred its streets So I left to leave them behind Uncertain of the world I would find My Journey began on Old East Road The destined path for all lost souls Before long, my soul's protest would begin The souls of my shoes were already thinned The memories and pain I thought I had left Visited me at night as I solitarily slept In the mornings, I opened my eyes All of their faces faded into the grey skies Before the conjunction of the Old Trail I ran into an elder whom told me the tale He warned me even though he knew I would not heed Before he left, he gave me a staff he said I would need The staff was of the hardest of woods It was, he said, of his most prized goods Through battles it had survived, so he had stated And through journeys like mine, it was forever fated drudgeing on, I followed the waning dusk sun Further from my family, closer to being just one Just as black took to the clear night sky I found the Trail that neither fame nor fortune could defy
Reason for writing:
I submit to you the first 25 lines of Journey, my masterpiece. Currently, it is over seven hundred lines. The reason I wrote this particular poem was to settle an old score between my heart and my soul. I am submitting excerpts from it to various publishing houses and websites. When it is completed, I hope to have illustrations made up by talented artists. Then, I hope that I can put it all in one envelope and send it to whatever publisher would be insane enough to even look at it in its entirety. If anyone is interested in checking it out, or looking at my other works (both published and non-published), contact me or my associates at Dead Rose Productions.
Brandon M. Strong Dead Rose Productions
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