Vampyre's Pyre

By Daniel C. Joneikies

Vampyres Pyre was a work long in the making. For as long as I could remember I had a fascination with these fictional beings. They always brought thoughts of cobblestone streets at night, lit by gaslight. The sound of hoof beats growing louder.

In my mind I saw them also rampant and wild in forests, reclusive, seductive. I had never really considered them something to be feared. Well, not until There is more to their lore than meets the eye.

They are continually elusive, one might say. But thats when the question becomes clear. ...Are they possibly near?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493188413

Daniel C. Joneikies

Born in West Germany, Daniel grew up in both Ottawa and Toronto, Canada. He worked in the business sector most of his adult life; from Accounting, Law, and finally as a Junior Auto and Home Insurance Underwriter, and Manager. As a consequence of a random assault, Daniel spent the better part of 10 years recovering from and overcoming a life-changing disability. Since, he has dedicated his efforts to writing, a passion from the age of twelve, and helping animals in need. Daniel resides in Western Canada with his Beloved Cat ‘Marble’.

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Vampyre’s Pyre

Daniel C. Joneikies

Copyright © 2014 by Daniel C. Joneikies.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014905485

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4931-8842-0

                Softcover       978-1-4931-8843-7

                eBook            978-1-4931-8841-3

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Rev. date: 03/21/2014

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CONTENTS

1.   Vaeralchx

2.   A Korean Camelot Story

3.   A Lament

4.   A Liquid Storm

5.   All Points Europa

6.   An Illogical Drive In Logic

7.   Ash And Anger

8.   Back Scratchers

9.   Be Were

10.   Bio

11.   Birthing Religion

12.   Blistered Ash

13.   Bone Caster (Rolâ Osoase)

14.   Clock Chimes From The Door

15.   Crocodile

16.   Crucius Imperiatus

17.   Desert Red

18.   Diakonia

19.   Duplikaant

20.   Empyrean Flaw

21.   Majeanta

22.   Ethereal Antilles

23.   Exhume

24.   Fessura Di Mente

25.   From Earth

26.   Frost Bitten

27.   Fuerya

28.   Gizelle De La Luna

29.   Gratified

30.   Helga, Wilhelmine And A Seer Society

31.   . . . In Emerald Greens

32.   Infinity

33.   Lament Forth

34.   Lonely Shadow

35.   Lonely Wood

36.   Maestro

37.   Monarch To Bloom

38.   Monotone And Drone

39.   My Blood Fire

40.   The Muse

41.   Noir

42.   Of Things We See (Vagrant Vampire)

43.   Pater Sanctum

44.   Phantomaena Gaia

45.   Pikes And Stones

46.   Puto (The Coward)

47.   Pyre

48.   Quite Contrary

49.   R.s.v.p.

50.   Raven Feather And Plush

51.   Redeemer

52.   Root

53.   Savage Saint

54.   Sick, True, Sweet

55.   Sip From The Death

56.   Slated By Grey

57.   Something New

58.   Strawberry Rush

59.   Tabula Rasa

60.   The Opera Objectives

61.   Iifecta

62.   These, Be These Your Holy Wars

63.   This Is The End

64.   This Progressive Psychopathy

65.   Truancy

66.   Twixt Death And Me

67.   Tænderne I Træerne (The Teeth In The Trees)

68.   Urgency Emergence

69.   Via The Shine Of Unkind

70.   Visions Of Soon

71.   When Whatever Was The Thing For Two Teenage Kids On A Winter Night

72.   Vaeralchx (Vampyre’s Pyre—A Prayer)

Dedications:

Helga W. Joneikies 12.16.1938 - 05.23.2013

Kurt E. Joneikies 05.07. 1923 - 11.25.2012

Lissa H. Wong

Joy Temple (Number 71 written for Joy)

H. Liam Jerusalem

Alyssa Ryvers

Alistair A. Vogan (Much appreciation)

Daniel

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VAERALCHX

Ideamaentae idirom cospense ri vae traentae,

cosmonnemtae waar tienndeae,

zigarusttus sckhoe,

zigarusttus sckhoe immoertalttus vaej rigchgoees,

tagchlustueem neaeffun boaeq hooelj,

noenae daeguchess oensaall poernpuueaous.

Ooefirinndai cembexae tolkk-a-vaaemt

quaffscx sooulchxtiine moeerabuu tasj puuy,

faffrae sckhoe yaiam,

faffrae sckhoe kuoleiatuum sikkhae dok,

afirrteem hokk bahhmmutaekkum,

oennf suaenttrrui oensaal deppoljagnne.

Brooaetuk, brooaetuk vuuchtaav toeundfchx,

tiiemstae muoerbiied tachaeluux,

laess piinnatx tuudhuupp,

laess piinnatx foffquemaef oeeglimmoae deaeem,

chxaaeitommiito dooerteeng staggff oeel,

hueevvitae tomiiquuoem kaangchx gghoii liaevvtuus.

A KOREAN CAMELOT STORY

Orders in on the worst day in May,

when the skies were darkly shaded grey

and the winds began to topple over all that was man made,

the rain had come so heavy for hours,

roads and trenches were subject to flood,

if nothing else, at least the blood had been washed away.

A new day came but there was just more coming,

at least the killing had stopped for another day,

but new orders already been signed and issued to make their way,

while foreign soldiers, they marched on,

trudging forward, upon their comrades graves,

unknown to them, as they lay beneath the mud and the clay.

Many nights had come and gone,

and Saints be praised, a new leader come to light the way,

very different to what had been accustomed,

this man believed in free will and free hand,

his brandy was shared with all who were feeling cold and scared,

and an oath of kept confidences he swore to never betray.

Brought with him a lovely Lady, she was named Su Yung,

beautiful and everlasting it’s been rumoured to mean,

and according to the commander, her kiss wore everlasting through the grey,

drunken fool and slack ass tool, had been what some men sung,

fortunate indeed were they these words not reached his ears,

as a long solitary and potential court marshal might they have braved.

To have grown all one’s life, taught independence is strong,

but to military, free will had no business being there,

many, but many who without hesitation did enlist,

were not prepared for horrors like this,

men broken down and sobbing for their mothers and homes,

when in unknown language Su Yung had sung her song.

Though bombs and mines had ignited at many feet,

the soldiers were all consumed by her voice so sweet,

no medics around for countless miles,

many fevered and sweat soaked men openly welcomed her smile,

there was not one among them who did not beg her for her legendary kiss,

which the commander boasted of so with look of bliss.

March forward soldiers, time to move had come, march into the new days begin,

feelings of nausea they had to forego, all the wrongs committed in