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sleeping-dragons
Sleeping Dragons
Yes, this is a nest
of dragons
you see
sleeping in the sun
above my heart
They are sleeping.
That white wisp
is fog only,
not smoke.
And that smell
is not
burning flesh;
the heat
- only the sun.
You see, I want
no knight.
My dragons dream now
of the long night
and other
maidens.
Soon they will wander
away.
I will not be lost.
I will not be forlorn.
The dragons mean
nothing
to me.
(You see, I remember,
though hazily
and with what must be
a foolish fondness,
their claws, their fire.)
No, their silence
doesn’t
imprison me;
their rumblings didn’t
delight me and their flames didn’t
make me sing
and dance
as I burned.
I tell you,
I do not court
dragons, pin them
close
to my heart.
I do not sing siren songs
to knights
drawing them to my
hungry dragons.
I do not.
by Joan Vinall-Cox, '98
Image source - http://qwillery.blogspot.ca/2011/03/dragons-shifters-what-do-you-think.html
- joanvinallcox
joanvinallcox on August 06, 2012 02:42
@PierreSweedieCat: Thanks for your feedback. It's a poem I wrote a few years ago, and, sadly, I can't carry a tune, so my singing energy goes into my speaking voice. And thanks for the suggestions - I wrote about how I created the SoundCloud post here - http://joanvinallcox.ca/playing-with-poetry-and-soundcloud/
- PierreSweedieCat
PierreSweedieCat on August 05, 2012 05:01
Awesome! I like it. You have an excellent reading voice! Did you write it by yourself, or do you have a co-author ... or a poem source? Do you sing, too? Well, enough of your time used up! Thank you! .
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