Riotous Rhymes
By Leon De Kock
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This being a short yet intense collection of:
Riotous Rhymes,
Epic tales and crimes,
Dirty deeds and death,
Dark humor on a breath.
Come be the perpetrator,
Come you, antagonist,
Join me, the instigator,
Our weapon: Words that twist.
Leon De Kock
Leon de Kock was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday the 13th, October 1972, the sixth child of Pierre and Sally de Kock.Although life seemed boring on the surface, Leon lived an adventurous young life through reading. Everything went, he started off innocently with Enid Blighton of Famous Five fame, rolled through the other greats of the day, devoured Agatha Christie and then got sucked into the darker, more intense novels of Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz and the likes. Currently his reading includes a lot more of the fantasy novels of authors such as Rowling, Pratchett and others.His story telling began at a young age, by high school he was telling full-length stories through epic poems, some of which would be incorporated into a book and published many, many years later.After completing school in 1990 Leon enrolled for an apprenticeship with the South African department of Post and Telecommunications. After qualifying as a technician he stayed in that job until 1997, when he moved to work in the field of information technology. During those years he played bass guitar in a variety of heavy metal bands, where he was also responsible for most of the lyrics, and managed to get two of his poems published in a magazine.The editor of the magazine said of his first poem it was 'Dead in the Marketplace'. It didn't stop said editor from publishing the poem though.By 2001 Leon was working as an IT technician on a major coal mine in the Mpumulanga province of South Africa. It was around this time that he started work on the epic apocalyptic novel, Hordes.By 2002 the bright lights of his hometown of Pretoria were calling, and he moved back, with no job and no clear course of the future. He found himself working as an estate agent, then moved into architecture, working as a draughtsman.He kept up work on Hordes, and also wrote a second novel, the fantasy horror Dream World. A six month hiatus from working life, caused by a broken tibia and fibula from taking a tumble off his dualsport motorbike while riding off-road in December of 2009 helped him to complete a lot of his unfinished writing.Both Hordes and Dream World were Indie published on Amazon Kindle in May 2012. This was followed in June of the same year by the fantasy Story of Enchantment, a novel written through 250 poems, most of them epics, forming one continuous story.Dream School, the sequel to Dream World, followed in 2014.In 2015 came the horror Serenity, to be followed in 2016 by another apocalyptic, Sniffer.The companion book to Dream World and Dream School, titled Guide to Dreaming, was published in January 2018. Also in January 2018 came the collection of short stories, Night is for Nightmares.The first book of the fantasy Vespula series, Rituals, was released in September 2019, and was followed in by the second novel in the series, Insanity.In February of 2023 his collection of poems, mostly epic tales, was published under the title Riotous Rhymes.Leon currently lives in the city of Kempton Park, in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, where he continues life as a novelist and architectural draughtsman.Never far from nature, he has close ties to the Gauteng and Northern Regions Bat Interest Group as their membership secretory. He holds a membership with the Exploration Society of South Africa and the Speleological Exploration Society.In 2013 he was involved in a National Geographic expedition to retrieve hominid fossils from the Rising Star cave formation, working as a safety caver in support of the scientists.In 2014 he was involved in the Gobolo expedition to Swaziland to help explore and map the Gobolo Cave formation, one of earth's rare granite cave formations.Although his healthy sense of self-preservation has kept him from taking the plunge over the 50 meter precipice into the cave known as Armageddon, he was part of the team that first discovered and explored what would turn out to be one of the largest, deepest and probably oldest underground chasms in South Africa.You can find more information about the author's work at http://www.leondekock.com/
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Riotous Rhymes - Leon De Kock
Riotous Rhymes
Leon de Kock
Copyright 2022 Leon de Kock
Smashwords Edition
The Coming Journey
Desert Wind Song
Death Gave Life
Ghost
The Bugs
Praise be to Garlic
The Great Kitchen Catastrophe
Rage
Full-moon’s curse
Friday the 13th
Blunt Instrument
The Shallow Grave Serenade
Journey’s End
The Coming Journey
You’ll Dream,
And as you Dream,
You’ll fall,
And while you fall,
You’ll look,
And what you’ll see,
Will be –
More Dreams.
Desert Wind Song
White Desert sand in this land of Death lie,
Beauty in silence come wondering by,
As winds on this plane of Divinity sweep,
Through mystical ages the sand dunes do creep.
Here Life and Death mate,
And bring forth their young,
Sun-bleached the bones’ fate,
On Desert-floor flung!
Blue skies and white tides,
The Great Horse of time rides,
Blackness in cold night,
Burn silver with stars bright,
Through gossamer clouds