Epic Worlds: When Fantasy Meets Poetry

 

Epic Worlds in Verse: When Fantasy Meets Poetry

This morning, I'm arranging my table at Realm Makers Writers Conference and Expo—a gathering of Christian fantasy and sci-fi writers. Stacks of sword-clashing and spaceship novels surround me, yet the little poem stack in the corner is part of my writing, too.

Fantasy, scifi, and poetry invite us to speak in symbols. They ask our hearts to see farther than our eyes. My new collection, To Speak, lives right in that overlap with poems from the real world, but also phoenix-bright free verse. While it's more usual for epic fantasy to live in great tomes of text, it is possible to celebrate epic worlds in verse, when fantasy meets poetry. 

Here’s one of those pieces:

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Embers by Tyrean Martinson

The wind is gone,

the trees are still,

clouds cover sun,

my heart feels chill.

 

But the embers glow,

and from this I know,

the spark still lives,

and each breath gives

 

Faith to life,

Truth to love,

Peace abiding,

Hope for flight:

 

A phoenix rising.

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If you’re walking the expo floor, stop by my booth and read more. If you’re miles away, know that To Speak is taking shape on Kickstarter right now—ready to ignite new sparks of courage and wonder. 

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