The SkyPath Crusade is a science fiction/fantasy epic poem that I wrote back in 2007. It is 39 chapters long, or 3,424 lines. It contains 20,123 words and over 1,700 rhyming pairs. The first chapter is posted below. In order to read the entire poem with illustrations, see my other blog at http://skypathcrusade.wordpress.com
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The SkyPath Crusade
A Science Fiction Epic Poem
Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Schilling
All Rights Reserved
Prologue
Those were the days when boys were men One thousand years ago When the grass was green and the cows were clean And the mountains filled with snow When able knights rode back and forth Across Earth’s dusty face And the very best who passed a test Went straight to outer space * Their ships were built from bygone days With masts and sails so white They knew no fear, they left our sphere For passage through the night On ether streams they sallied forth Across the heavens’ breadth On cratered moons and Martian dunes To die a distant death * They fought with kings and cyber lords When ancient worlds ran dry With watchful sights on meteorites They sparred across the sky They learned to hide in comet dust While fleeing from the fray The only law within the jaw Of half the Milky Way * But his’try now has passed them by For very few returned And tales told grew very old While manuscripts were burned But if our modern probes can spy Their castles still on Mars We’ll then be sure we never were The first ones to the starsThe Space Crusaders
The following is the Space Crusaders webnovel. This story is based roughly on my Epic Poem the SkyPath Crusade. It tells how English knights traveled through space to save the Roman inhabitants of Mars 900 years ago. Links to all the chapters posted so far are available below. I admit I haven’t gotten very far yet. I have been putting most of my energy into my posts entitled “Autobiography: How I discovered that Romans used to live on Mars.”
brilliant.
it could be a play or an opera….
well done.
Wonderfully refreshing… unlike anything else in the realms of poetry that ever I’ve read.