Na/GloPoWriMo 2024 – 30a

Prompt:
write a poem
in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to,
a character from myth or legend

This is border-prompt..Lol!
I was at the hospital and saw a lot of children play.
While I was waiting I wrote this.
As there was a request for a children’s story
Sorry: the prompt was not completely in my mind.

The next post will show the on prompt version.

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The Fairy and the Dragon

In age old times
under bright green leaves
and fading sun
the fairy played
on rays of golden shine
so innocent, not yet blossoming,
her soul pure and benign

a dragon came
with force and fire
ready to eat it all
the fairy would not live, not learn to fly
she wouldn’t live till fall.

But stories often turn the world
to understanding and to grace,
Frightened she was, the little one,
standing alone before the giant
gone was all her brave.

Instead of fleeing she stood up
looked straight into the dragon’s mouth
then formulated a call for help
turned west, north, east, and south

Help came from all corners of the wood:
faes, trolls, gnomes and lots known by the lore,
they saw the dragon and the fae,
counted, and they were more!

The dragon, not afraid at all,
wanted to kill them soon,
The creatures gathered and said loud:
We’ll conquer him. Now start the tune!

The whisper commenced, from soft to loud,
all voices sounded strong.
The little fairy stood right there
and sang her silver song

The dragon sniffed, stamping his feet,
he wanted to attack,
but a shiver went right through his spine
and the ground showed a large crack

The little fairy didn’t know what to do,
The crack got wider, wider yet,
It grew larger than the dragon was,
became an enormous threat.

Then in the middle of the highest tone
she looked him in the eye:
He imagined himself sitting on a throne
It rhymes, so don’t ask me why.

Completely lost in phantasies
the dragon stepped and fell.
His body and his dragon fire
went down and straight to hell.

The earth closed quick and clean,
The creatures cheered with joy!
They danced till dawn on a great foy,
The dragon was nevermore seen.

The fairy thanked who came on her call,
said: I’ll remember this well.
And when she was grown up at every ball
this story she would tell.