Last day! Magic U back-to-school giveaway day 7!

And it’s the final day of my back-to-school Magic University promo week! Today we have an extra credit assignment related to today’s lesson on Poetry.

Poetry
As I mentioned before, Poetry is one of the major magical disciplines. Kyle, our hero, is a poet, a relative of Longfellow, and he is astonished to learn upon arriving at Veritas that many of the English poets (and American ones, too) were magical. T.S. Eliot attended Veritas and often wrote a mundane version and a magical version of his poems. Shakespeare was magical, as were Blake, Spenser, and Shelley.

Before 1692, when the magical community in Europe and the Americas went into hiding in the face of church persecution, the magical poets were more open about their abilities. Afterward, poets continued to publish poems with magical themes, though, in the name of poetic license.

In the books I quote snippets of the magical poems, and of course Kyle writes his own.

Today’s Assignment
So for today’s extra credit assignment, write me a poem about magic! Or love. Or both… Everyone who posts a poem (and gives me their email) will receive either the ebook of The Siren & The Sword (book one) or Spellbinding (the Magic U erotic short story anthology),

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