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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/928614-year-of-the-dragon
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #2081410
my entries for the Construct Cup
#928614 added February 8, 2018 at 11:56pm
Restrictions: None
year of the dragon
the great wyrm
sends her talons over the earth,
capturing it,
desperate for more
treasure to be gathered to her heart—
gold and precious things,
and beauty and grace
and most of all,
stories, tales wafting
from every fire and every bardic tongue
to gather beneath her wings.
there is no trivial tale.
she is greedy for all,
swallowing them whole
lest she shrivel and die
from their lack, but the irony is,
her tale could be the greatest
of all, but her armor
drives away knights
and princes, and poets
and dreamers, leaving her alone
on her horde—gold on her tongue
and songs ringing
in her ears.

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