Crow's Audition Verses

[Erilobar 139]

Crow’s Audition Verses

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The tiny leaflet that the words are delivered on depicts a play being performed.

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The words that follow are my own original pieces. Few have ever been published publicly, since most come from unfinished or abandoned works; should you need them, feel free to use them when auditioning for the Crow’s Theatre Troupe.

-Vorion Sturmholm

 

1: Soliloquy of a soldier who has lost their spouse

What days are these where scorn and war roam free,

Where brother turns on each other with wetted blade,

Alliance once stout and proud now crumbles and falls

Children wake and fear for parents’ lives?

Ai! I have looked upon the eyes of conquest,

Seeing but blood and grief for those who toil

For a world their own eyes would never see.

Iblees, I look upon you now, and curse:

Your hatred pure shall never touch these hearts.

 

2: Words spoken by a lover scorned

Have any worth, this shattered heart of mine?

I gave freely, yet punishment received.

Was I but lonely imperfection’s form,

Or was my flaw to lend love to defect?

I know not, still, if I should venture on

To seek your heart, to gaze upon the sun

That outshines all, grant peace everlasting

With tender lips like rose, O sweetest jewel.

 

3: The Holes of Wintertime (song/poem, choose 2+ verses)

Deep in the holes of wintertime I woke 

Next to your side, by a warm fire of oak. 

You whispered so quietly in the cold, 

From your lips wisps of mist did twist and fold.

 

You spoke to me about the spring softly, 

Said it was made by the lord above, for me. 

That he made it so we could gently lie 

Betwixt these hills until one day we die.

 

Hidden way from the warmth of a summer’s 

Sun, away from march of the dummers’ 

Drums, lying under golden oaken leaves, 

I told you I love you beneath those trees.

 

And yet at last, when the autumn leaves fell 

You said you were no more under my spell 

I thought I’d stay together with you, so fair, 

But you left me there.

OOC INFO:

Spoiler

When auditioning, please make sure to emote more than just the lines, and include information such as tone of voice and the emotion the persona is trying to convey.