Dragon Worship

[Chiron Jackal]

Re-posting because Klarky, Lord Of Poetry is back.

Shining like gold or silver or a smile at twilight,
The sun reflects from your flight.
Nothing is ever so dazzling,
No light ever so warm.

Your scales spell out a litany of youth
And of mistakes
Of a life so genuine.

You're like lightening that slows
To take the time to dance.

In each clawed hand you hold a gift,
Though you seem not to know it.

The land you look upon springs flowers of orange and blue
That are always in bloom.

Sometimes it scares me to look in your eyes.

I run up the tallest mountain.
I jump onto the clouds.
I pull myself up by the moon.
I leap up to you from the flares along the sun itself.
I reach for you, stretching,
Knowing I will never reach you.

You smile as you take up my whole sky.

I fall so far and the earth bellow will swallow me.

I cannot help but smile as I fall,
Nor can I stop the laughter that comes
From the pain of landing.

For it always serves to remind me that you are worth it.

I blame you for the stars:
Little treasures of summer time
That follow us through the night.

I see you fly past again,
Taking with you the sun and the moon.

I look at you,
A proof of God
And of Love
And that Hope is not a Sin.

There you stay,
Too close to heaven to ever be reached,

And I can only think that it is time to climb my mountain
And try again.

[Klark]

Let me start off by saying I love this poem. And no, that has nothing to do with calling me Lord of Poetry (for anyone else who might get that idea). Thrasher simply remembers when I moderated this forum and how active I was in those days.

Back to the poem, though I noticed "below" was spelled "bellow" it didn't detract my attention enough to ruin the ride the poem took me on.

Sure, the flow was erratic, but that's how it was meant to be. The erratic nature of the verses only help emphasize the erratic feelings that I imagine would accompany a ride on a dragon's back. While just a bit more imagery of your vision of a dragon would have helped me quickly conjure it in my mind, having the freedom to imagine my own dragon within your guidelines was nice.

Needless to say, I wanted to ride a dragon while reading this poem.

On the KRS, I give this two thumbs up. Thanks for reposting it! I don't remember getting the chance to read it the first time.

[Chiron Jackal]

Sure, the flow was erratic, but that's how it was meant to be. The erratic nature of the verses only help emphasize the erratic feelings that I imagine would accompany a ride on a dragon's back.
Looking back, it also kind of sounds like when you spill your guts to someone and start rambling on without much rhyme, reason, or proper sentence structure - just way too much honesty.

While just a bit more imagery of your vision of a dragon would have helped me quickly conjure it in my mind, having the freedom to imagine my own dragon within your guidelines was nice.
I sat there all night trying to come up with more imagery and nothing would surface. I felt the same kind of frustration when asked to describe God in definite terms. Anything that I could have said just fell so short it almost hurt to say.

:love: I'm so glad you're back. This is the first poem I've written in many years (and being 23, "many years" constitutes the majority of my life) so your encouragement really means a lot.

[UNODRAGONE]

wow TC!!! I honestly think that should be submitted into a fantasy or Sci-Fi magazine. I LOVE your descriptive word choices especially:

You're like lightening that slows
To take the time to dance.


I run up the tallest mountain.
I jump onto the clouds.
I pull myself up by the moon.
I leap up to you from the flares along the sun itself.
I reach for you, stretching,
Knowing I will never reach you.


I fall so far and the earth bellow will swallow me.

I cannot help but smile as I fall,
Nor can I stop the laughter that comes
From the pain of landing.


I blame you for the stars:
Little treasures of summer time
That follow us through the night.


total epic win :) :notworthy: :rockon: :beerchug:

[GoddessWolf]

TC, I love it! It makes ME want to go draw dragons in a notebook and I can't draw to save my life!

My favorite part is:

I run up the tallest mountain.
I jump onto the clouds.
I pull myself up by the moon.
I leap up to you from the flares along the sun itself.
I reach for you, stretching,
Knowing I will never reach you.

[Chiron Jackal]

TC, I love it! It makes ME want to go draw dragons in a notebook and I can't draw to save my life!

My favorite part is:

I run up the tallest mountain.
I jump onto the clouds.
I pull myself up by the moon.
I leap up to you from the flares along the sun itself.
I reach for you, stretching,
Knowing I will never reach you.

I painted that part. I'll scan it and create an art album once I can figure out this stupid overly-fancy scanner. Until then, crappy photo time!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/ThrasherCub/tigers.png