Original - Poem - Purple Hills

[sativa]

I've been working for the past month on a fairytale one-shot for fictionhaven. I just got done with the roughdraft and was trying to think of some names for my characters since I've been using filler names. After finishing writing the whole thing, I kind of have this picture of my two characters and was inspired to write some poems as charcter sketches to help me out.

Character 1 - Originally named Mizuro now named Eri, Female, 15 years old by our standards, ageless in the context of the one-shot. She's a bookeeper by trade who records the knowledge of everyday people in a room only she can access.

Pressed against the glass, yearning
Seeking an end to solitude, afraid.
Always caught in the middle, duty vs desire,
she weeps with the rising sun
and gazes with longing at the dying day.

Miserable, all alone in her solitude
she seeks comfort in her curse
and despairs at the unchanging pace of her world.

Character 2 - Originally named Sano and now named Damon - Male, 16 years old. He is an assassin who is cursed with the ability to find the bookeeper.

Eyes locked on the horizon,
feet truding forward against his will,
He is the wanderer, an executioneer
Still waiting for his first kill.

Cursed to roam the land,
he yearns for a home.
Determination tempers his spine,
his pace picks up.
Only when his blade drips with blood
will he be able to rest his weary feet.

For more random info, Eri is short for Misery and Damon is nomad spelled backwards. I'm rather proud of myself for thinking of that...

Note: I'm a little rusy on my poem writing skills. Just forewarning.

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Comments

[fluorescens.livejournal.com]

*jaws drop*

[sativa]

So is that in awe at my mad naming skills or the poems? *cheeky grin*

[fluorescens.livejournal.com]

BOTH! *thumps yr head*

I've never ever seen one of yr poems before! I like Damon (oh Matt Damon, hehe) but not really Eri though. It has a Jap-feel to it. And misery is kinda sad for yr female protagonist....