"The Fall of Aringore" by Sarah (´Saja´) Kellington

Ach - why are they always pickin on us poor mages? - (just cause their princes is held captive with a living slave collar of a snake biting its tail arrond her neck ... and a jewl on her forhead that lets us evesdrop on her thoughts ... though of late i suspect she's learned a trick or two that she can think disinformation at us ... ~
Well the bards will sing their glorious deeds and i'm sure the're having a high time in their valhalla ... arm wrestling with chalis over the blood wine no doubt ... or something of the sort ... ~Mages are sooo misunderstood. I mean, just try setting up in a proper dark tower with ligthin' and all, and the whole village starts refusing to let you check out library books and such. Tsk.

oooooooh.....
I like! sounds like something out of Tolkien- 'tis a wordsmith, you are.
:weeping bow:: I am humbled.
Servant to the muse,
~Annalee

Ballady goodness! I think you showed me this in real life before (psshaw, real life). Finish it, and maybe, like Beowulf, your poem will be found a couple thousand years later and hailed as the only surviving work from 21st century English ^_^;;

Hmm now thinking of stereotypes. The good guys in the end kill the bad wizard. Ergo if wizard is alive after the "in the end": wizard not evil.
So I agree with John, this wizard must have been most misunderstood.
I dont think your poetry is bad by the way. And trust me, I was head mod of the library I have read my share of poetry
I always (and thus also in this poem) enjoy it when there hasn't been made too much an attempt at sticking to rhymes. A good poem flows even without rhymes I think and I do feel that The Fall of Aringore has a nice rythm