This piece is for =Cyantre's Video Game Poetry Contest [link]

I might have tried to be a little too clever here. This was written as an homage to one of my favorite games ever, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Each little section is written to one of the songs that Link learns from Sheik throughout the game. YES, they are exactly written to the rhythms and melodies (you could sing these words along to them if you really wanted to). I NEVER rhyme. But I rhymed here. That's because of the nature of the inspiration (music) and the fact that video games are meant to be accessible by almost everyone. I think rhyming makes it a little more universal, like, to traditional poetry. Dunno, maybe it's just me. XD At any rate, here you go.

Oh, and this bears mentioning too---one of my absolute favorite things about the Zelda games is the world in which they are set. I Hyrule. So these small pieces are more about the game world than the characters or what happens in the plot. That is, Bolero of Fire is about Death Mountain, as that's where Link learned that song; Minuet of the Forest is about the Deku Forest/Lost Woods, etc. etc.

The preview image is a very old fanart I made ages ago. The original is posted on my old, defunct art account, ~jamberry. I gave myself permission to use it here.

Anyway. Hope you like it. Hope it suits the very inspiring game well.