Two Poems Unnamed

Please tell me which one you are rating.

No: One

Through the dungeons I stole, while everyone slept,
Until I came upon the cage where the dragon was kept;
there locked into place, a regal creature, all tattered and torn,
yet, smiling as he lay, beaten and worn.

I left that place, climbing the clock tower in early morning light,
it was midday at least and my journey was not done.
The clock never sounded, the dragon was released.
For there sitting atop the tower was the regal beast.

I tossed the dragon a line, for which he took; off in flight we did go,
without a second look.
Down and around we flew, to a lagoon I never knew,
the regal beast and I squatted by the luminous lagoon.
By waters green and fresh as yet.

The regal dragon stirred the waters with a tattered nail and I with a withered stick.
Then a flash split the sky, the lagoon ripped asunder,
The dragon had whispered a rune,
magic was wrought.

There from lagoon there rose a monstrous balloon,
I stepped back into the fens as the heavens did shake,
a tempest, through lightening and thunder.
But I did not quake.
Darkness did not rise from the lagoon.

Where there was once a monstrous balloon, now a
mate did stand. Within the deep marshes now they reside
singing to themselves by the luminous lagoon.

©Deady 2006-05-27


No: two

Desolate and alone
She did wait
For many an moon inside the lake
With fog trails and the mist creeps
Calls and cries that seemed neverending
Like some lost love
In tears and trouble
Her heart did swoon
When the spell cast did break
For now she could look into her lovers eyes
Her heart beating deeply in her breast
No longer did she harbour in the lagoon
And no tales of hunting were in her head.

©Deady 2006-05-27