Prince of Thorns: Book 1 of the Luciferian Chronicles

By Reda Issa

‘The Prince of Thorns’ is a collection of poems about the fictional land of Luciforious. Xenophon, the main character and rightful heir to the throne, tries to bring peace to the kingdom and end the tyrannical reign of his reckless uncle King Salazar, who usurped the throne from Xenophon’s father.
But to what lengths will the impostor King Salazar go in order to keep his nephew Xenophon away from the throne?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Feb 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665591133

Reda Issa

Reda Issa is born in Dublin, brought up in Ghana, comes from Lebanon and lives in London. 14 years ago on March 30th, 2007, Reda was in a car accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him in a deep coma for 2 months. At a time when his survival seemed really bleak, Reda woke up from the coma having to learn how to walk and talk all over again. But he came back with a gift. The gift of seeing reality through another perspective and the talent for writing, which he cultivated over the years. These two godsend gifts are what make his poetry unique.

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PRINCE

OF

THORNS

Book 1 of the Luciferian Chronicles

REDA ISSA

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Published by AuthorHouse  02/09/2022

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CONTENTS

The Surface

The Forbidden Kingdom

Map of Beirut

The Leper King

Concert of Phoenixes

Prince of Thorns

The Broken Record

Prologue

The Identity of the Last Phoenix

Explosion in Beirut

Cobwebs of the future

A Picture of Two

Power Sharing

A Placid King

The Leper King Two (the Crown)

The Death of Adonys

Our Phoenix Mayar

Taste of Revolution

The Flower is on the table

Writer on the Storm

The Upside-Down King

Still Water

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THE SURFACE

The surface comes to light

the surface is light surprised!

Where the sun shines

each surface carries

its own world down below

kind of like the tip of every iceberg that floats passed.

it hides the ill darkness

of that which is below

as kingdoms do with their lesser republics.

Luciferous is the forbidden kingdom

Beirut her capital republic

and her memory belongs to the light on the surface.

Xenophon the dreamer of the west romanticises

finding light in the east,

then says to his self with conviction

that

‘Enlightenment is lost to light

Enlightenment is of a different shade

the unrecognised shade

(And then the light of reality’s menacing sun fades…)

Enlightenment is the light that has a deal with down below

That which is dark

it is the light which races with circular spaces

that are blank

the spaces the cosmos like to forget to take

because the light is fake!

Light are just repeated copies of enlightenment

and the kingdom has been led astray

into making mistake after mistake

for light to make its mark in ether…

and the mob then calls it civilised!’

Surfaces are always a success

That type of success

Which gives wings to light

which is blessed in return.

A lonely space

it is indeed

to be at the top of civility

for,

yes! Civilisation embraces

The faces

Of each other,

embraces light,

however random

or alien from me and from you

it is the magic that manages to connect the two

but civilisations have cut off’s

to underworlds

because the promise between civility and the wild was never a guarantee

I, Xenophon, guesses…

When