My Dragon.
A Monstrous Dragon, breathing fire.
Did arise from the gurgling mire.
Dark gangrenous green, from head to tails.
Claws blackened, sharp as nails.
Purple secretions, from his scaly chest.
A spear harpooned, a grizzly mess.
Nostrils ablaze, bloodied red.
Eyes seeping yellow maggot heads.
My Dragon’s crying, and nearly dead.
My Dragon, The Revival
My harpooned Dragon’s fallen and out of breathe.
Gazing around, pleading, near death.
The slayers spear, protrudes from his scaly vest.
And I quietly hear his soulful pounding chest.
Quickly, I plunge my sword, cutting shard.
Removing the spears horrid barb.
My Dragon exhales a fearsome howl.
Eyes Bulging, tears flowing down his jowl.
In agony, thrashing his spiky green tail.
Then slowly abating, like a windless sail.
Is he dying, lying there loudly groaning.
Nostrils snorting, neither afire nor smoking.
Suddenly, his left wing begins flapping.
And my Dragon’s head rises, stretching, arching.
Green horns twitching, like a mythical serpentine.
Yellow eyes glowing, like magical sunshine.
My Dragon’s revived.
And ready to skydive.
My Dragon, Can He Fly.
My wounded Dragon, stands so proud.
Neck arching up, looking to the clouds.
Seeing graceful birds flying apart.
He feels a huge scar close to his heart.
My dragon bows, and shakes his beastly head.
But his enormous tail feels like lead.
Flapping one wing, then the over.
Dejected he looks, not even a hover.
Nostrils snorting, no sign of fire.
To fly again, his deepest desire.
From within I hear, gut-rumblings soar.
My Dragon angrily spews an almighty roar.
And his gigantic jaws open wide.
A bloodied tongue swishes his fangs side to side.
He swallows and belches another gruesome howl.
A flame burst forth from his boughs.
My dragon frantically begins to respire.
Again and again his exhales are fire.
And gyrating his heavy green tail.
He spreads his wings like full sails.
Frightened at first, fluttering end to end.
My jumbo sized reptile gradually ascends.
Twenty, then fifty, a hundred leagues above.
Suddenly flying, like a flock of beautiful doves.
Magically rolling and frolicking he flies.
Happily he shrieks and swoosh, rapidly down he dives.
Majestically gliding, he arrives.
My Dragon, again King of the skies.
Ivor Steven.
Excellent trilogy; they compliment each other! Isn’t it funny how we writers get attached to a particular subject? It doesn’t leave us alone until we write it out of our system.
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It wasn’t my fault, you readers made me do it, I was going to stop at my little 50 word poem for SMM, but no, all the softies wanted my Dragon to live, so I had to revive him, and then some of my fervent readers wanted more !! Me being a nice guy had to oblige, hehe
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On that back of this comment… *whispers into the night* “Sagaaaaa!” 😛
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This piece is delightful fantasy. It made me sigh… I was sort of holding my breath anticipating the end!
Loved it and your audience must be happy.
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They better be! I didn’t mind the Dragon dying… But that’s life! 😉
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Haha, you’re my bestest audience
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I’m such fan! That’s true!!!
I’m stalking up on tissues just for you!
😉
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I believe I meant *stocking!! LOL
But I’d stalk you any day Ivor!
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Haha Ivor and the bean stalk….
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Yay! Brilliant how quickly you wrote these and how wonderful they are together. I have my fingers crossed for more like this!
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Oh dear don’t keep your fingers crossed together too long they might end up being stuck together. But maybe I might do another Trilogy laterer !!
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Reblogged this on Ivor.Plumber/Poet.
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This was awesome! Thank you for sharing this with me, Ivor dearest 😙😙😙
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Thanks Amberley, it pleases me greatly that you liked “My Dragon”, I’m thinking of writing more, maybe a little Lady Dragon friend for my dragon.
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That would be nice… even dragons need love…
Do you think she would be little? Nature tends to like bigger females…
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Maybe a buxom cuddly female Dragonette
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Buxom is good 😉
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