The Dragon, as I Pondered

This picture is actually the picture of the tree I wrote about.

  

I walked by a dragon

in the woods today.

It was a most ordinary event.

 

He stood, poised,

curling toward the sky,

and seemed barely restrained,

even by his own will,

from launching in awesome violence

toward the cool blue freedom.

His mystic hide trailed

in an ordered roughness to the ground,

where he braced himself—

rooted, as a deceptive tower.

Covered in shimmering green armor

to the sunlit nares of his ancient crown.

 

I passed beneath

his fierce shadow,

and was lost to wonder

how a world could move

to nullify his majesty.

 

As I pondered,

his curving spine cracked—

the mystery of his scales

drying to a coarse skin of bark.

His nimble arms, froze, deep,

to the bone, in the presence

of dissolved magic—

to remain the mere limbs

of a finite lineage.

 

I listened closely,

as his forceful lungs exhaled

one final gale to flick the ears

of distant creatures—

a lagging warning to those few:

the remnant of that primeval existence

forced to fade into indifference.

Reviews

[ASHLEY]

Wow this is a very passionate peice. i love how you could give the tree a completely different character and be able to get so discriptive about it.

btw, youre cute and have good taste in music...

LOL!

but i digress. very good poem.

[Bluet_Belle]

Wow, this reminds me of an early english ballad. I like, i like.

[Hedra Helix]

Aww that's beautiful, I was totally caught off guard by the transformation but I saw it clearly, watched the magic in the magic leeching away;)

I was in Yosemite this last summer and while walking to the grove of the giants we came a cross this area of burned stumps that looked like those creatures in Harry Potter that pulled the carrages. (if youre not a HP fan they looked like emaciated black horses with wings) it was awesome. We took pictures and the magic translated in them. So cool.

yep, nice clean flow to this, great innocent breathtaking to calm imagery.