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22 Jan 2006 @ 01:29

and you didn't believe.. did you.... *grins

Dragon’s Sleep

A great green dragon dwelt alone,
Curled and coiled in a cave so deep.
Sulfur billows oozed past trees,
A slithering banner of dragon-sleep.
To other lands he has oft flown,
O’er countless skies and endless seas.
A wing-ed prince none dare fight,
Challenged not in gliding flight

Tremors roll from the mountain’s core,
Golden eye un-shuttered glows.
Flicking tail and stretching wing,
Awareness of some danger grows.
Flames chase out a searing roar,
Embers crackle, hiss and sing.
Prince of the air goes to flee
Soaring o’er the cobalt sea.

Down below sinks his fair isle,
Treasure’s cave beneath the sea.
Screaming a loss of princely home,
Where now will the dragon be?
A wanderer faces another trial,
Upon world, he now must roam.
Great green wings embrace the sky,
Only heard is his receding cry.

Marissa A Spencer
© May 25, 2003

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22 Jan 2006 @ 19:26 by jstarrs : I'm a scared...
..scared I din believe
an scared I did belive:
I be live I scare
scare die
big scaly flapping thing
in the head
a flapping
blow a smo'
ka-fire
headly the head arown
my crown afire......
I did be live I wife
a scaly thing.
I unner stan
my wife fing lee...
a dragon fly.  

23 Jan 2006 @ 01:59 by skookum : now now...
come here..

I will protect you.  

23 Jan 2006 @ 15:33 by rayon : The dragon did from China come
With the hordes of Ghengiz Khan (!)
Not through India but via Tibet
And finally to Suleman's Turk
He found his way into their Pottery

The Crusaders to Constantin came
After capturing jerusalem
To oust the infidel who knew
Not how the Dragon to subdue
Or even believe the Dragon's fame

For not kill was St Michael's aim
But to hold in trim as not to dim
It's shining light from whence it came
But to keep it there for evermore
Tame and everlasting
To inspire the Occident's door.

The dragon's home is the paternal world
And let no light to the ladies fair
So churches changed the notions there
Falling on the Classical air
Denoting nature to be feminine fair
to the Vestal virgin guarded hearth
But changed again, via nature too
To the very opposite that the Orient knew.

A mighty mistery thus inspired
The dragon story and its fire.

NSR 23/1 1st draft p250106
made up from snoppits and glynings of thickly interwoven mythologies
- 24/1 - no one saw deliberate error!

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Jeff, you are right GK (Mongolian freedom fighter, who achieved great and local good feats, and who passed on daring dos to son, etc) did not come from China, but he brought the dragon image with him across Asia, eventually to the Turks. (According to recent RA exposition on Islamic artefacts, last year)  

24 Jan 2006 @ 10:04 by jstarrs : Er...Ghengis Khan didn't come from
China?
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This is a button test - those in the know will know...duh.
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Hmm, as I suspected - I write a comment and the button disappears.
Now off to save the permissions to see if it comes back...duh!
*later* Not even - driving me round the bend!
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Got it!! It came back when I saved the permissions again!!!
(It's probably gone now I've made this coment....:0(

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Jeff : re G Khan see above. N  

24 Jan 2006 @ 20:42 by judih : the button test, tried and true
was the dragon behind this devastating button business?
a chinese, dragon-hearted button belching beast?
save us! save me! cries the damsel, in belted robes. No buttons, nay, my kingdom for a button.

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the dragon is not to be feared, but subdued. He is the stuff of life!! Judih  

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