An Extract from this Month's Release: Dragon Trap
To celebrate this month's release of the second edition of 366 Days of Poetry released. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9 . Dragon Trap Written on April 22, 2015, for the April 20 entry of 366 Days of Poetry , this piece was inspired by the sight of a cartoon tower. In the castle, all forlorn, I hear the queen weep, as she mourns, mourns for husband, father, son; mourns for country lost, nation won; mourns for daughters soon forced to wed; mourns for knights to lose their heads; grows in anger, tears soon dry, sorrows, outraged, pleads with sky, calls the dragons, calls their lord, calls their ladies, calls their claws, begs for fury, begs for flame, asks for vengeance in her name; offers payment: gold, land, toil; offers kingdom; offers soul; agrees to pay the steep price asked; agrees to do the mission tasked. In the castle, she ca...