Chapter I: Dust-Blown

i've categorised them as poems but i don't think they are really poems. i started them with poetry in mind. so the categorisation. by the way, when does poetry turn into prose and vice versa??

weary-eyed, the sojourner edged for the shade and its rest

a singular tree, spreading comfort beneath a leafy canopy

by this road in the middle of nowhere, going West

over dust-blown barren plains, forlornly

he walked alone where none would dare,

even with fearless armies, take this thoroughfare

merciless,

the sun seeks his consciousness.

respite,

he's found for now, the heat won't bite.

here, winter's breath is unheard

here, the sands don't have a heart

mirages, the only certainty in this desolation

baking beneath a fiery yellow sun

dust devils rejoice with their dervish whirls

starved of water, the desert drinks

lost wanderers and their souls

down to the Valley of Bones this road leads

to the place where mirages meet

leading tired eyes and weary legs

giving them eternal rest

a traveller's most welcome here

and by that road, he slept

dreaming, of the valley down below

while the sands whispered their insistent calls

from that desert grave, forever greedy

dust-blown and wind-swept

the desert's waiting, but for now

the afterlife and death's dark halls

just dreams of a sojourner, weary

Author's Note

will these chapters be better off as prose? how do i make them better?

Reviews

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. oh, it's good to read these words again ... the characterization of the place as well as the protagonist is done really well ... your writing is very vivid and effective ... i can almost visualize this place ...

. i'm not sure when poetry becomes prose and prose becomes poetry ... i have stopped seeing anything poetic in what i write so i call it prose ... to be on the safer side ... in this post, however, i see poetry so i'd stick with calling it poetry ... you can add chapters as you wish ... they could be similar to what i see here and that's poetry ... or, you could write them the way prose is typically described ... meaning in a series of complete sentences ... it's all upto you ... you are the master of all that you have written, write (as of now) and will write (in the future) ...