The Kingdom is a series of twenty-nine poems. Find all the poems here.
The dwarves are still lost, all without a home,
Barely any food and shoeless they roam.
On one fateful day, there upon the vast and sunny plains,
The dwarves found something, something to end horrid dreary rains.
It was shiny silver ore, but a bit unique,
For it glistened in darkness so to speak.
“We’ll make a mirror,” the Dwarven King said,
And with that, the dwarves took the ore and fled.
It took many nights, in the dwarven shops,
They used many great tools and funny looking props.
And finally at the end of all their laboring sweat,
The dwarves had a mirror before the king set.
The mirror was wonderful and reflected each star,
A mirror worth millions if sold in a far off bazaar.
In this time the dwarves sadness was forgot,
On their lost home was not a single thought.
Their pride grew strong surrounding the mirror,
And in their pride a darkness grew nearer.
During a moonless night, the Dwarven King stood
Before the mirror with as much jewelry as he could.
He admired and admired, his stature stout and grand,
When a shadow appeared in the mirror and took his hand.
It pulled itself from the mirror, giving the dwarves a fright,
It was an evil and dark wraith that came into sight.
It flew high into the air and made a hideous screech,
The dwarves all cowered and hoped to get out of reach.
Three dwarves were killed, as it swooped quickly below,
It ate their souls, as does things that are life’s foe.
And now the kingdoms troubles grow as another villain lurks
Leaving the dwarves even worse as a result of their works.