Here are two sonnets exploring themes of mythical fiction—the first focusing on the legendary Minotaur in his labyrinth, and the second on the tragic figure of Cassandra from the Trojan War.
The Beast in the Hall
A sonnet on the Minotaur, trapped within the shifting stone of the Labyrinth.
The walls are cold, a shifting, stone embrace,
Where silence echoes through the twisting dark.
No sun can find this hollow, hidden place,
Where shadow leaves its heavy, jagged mark.
A crown of horns, a heart of human grief,
He treads the dust of those who came before.
For every life, a moment far too brief,
Lost in the winding maze without a door.
He hears the thread, a whisper on the air,
A hero’s step, a blade of gleaming light.
The end of hunger, and the end of snare,
To break the cycle of this endless night.
Though blood must spill before the dawn can rise,
The beast finds mercy in his closing eyes.
The Burden of the Unheard
A sonnet on Cassandra, the prophetess of Troy cursed to see the future but never be believed.
She sees the wooden horse at city gates,
A hollow gift that hides a burning doom.
Across the stars, she reads the cruel fates,
The smoke of Troy, the silent, ash-filled tomb.
Apollo’s kiss, a gift that turned to fire,
To speak the truth and find only a wall.
Her voice is lost within the city's choir,
Who dance and sing before the towers fall.
"Beware the dark!" she cries to deafened ears,
They mock the madness in her frantic gaze.
She stands alone amidst her private fears,
While history prepares its final blaze.
The greatest curse is not to see the end,
But watch it come, and fail to save a friend.
Sonnet Structure Used
Both poems follow the Shakespearean sonnet form:
14 lines of iambic pentameter.
Three quatrains (four lines each) and a final rhyming couplet.
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
A "Volta" (turn of thought), typically occurring at the final couplet or the start of the third quatrain.
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