Dragon Dreaming
Steady, climb, watch the footing.
Landslide of pebbles, marble-slick.
Forward, slowly, up and up.
Steadily nearer the missing tooth.
Harsh breath breaks on harsher cliff.
Knuckles gloved, but bloody still.
Tissue scraped, both skin and skinned,
Grisly blend, animal flesh human leather.
Stiff-legged step, another, still one short.
Gilled gasping in the oxygen-empty air.
Sun-warmed ledge of mortal solidity.
Daylight dawns in angled staves.
Peering into night, deep, dim decline.
Scuffle forward, halt, breath hushed.
Eyes adjust, then forward, down and down.
Sudden halt before certain doom.
Green-black pile, sated, still death.
Motionless shudder, ice-toed, hammer-hearted.
Eyes slit, vivid white on mossy green.
Used-brown red on yellow toothed grin.
Gold-tinged talons clutch a matching horde.
Hand out-thrust, tremor checked, backward, slowly.
Prickly cold on finger-tips, soundlessly swallow.
Withdraw quickly intaking forgotten breath.
Backward blindly up and up, down and down.
Unsettled dreamer twitches, shifts and moans,
Wakes to the drowsy comfort of an accustomed bed.
Murky half-light enters, dispelling dragon dreams.
~~Modron
For Two
Once light and energy danced as one
whirling about the chaotic circle of life
seeking...knowing
then quietly sweetly there entered another
and then there were two
shyly watching entranced
in rapture at the other's glow
_arms intertwine
light becomes peace and for two
become one
in the circle of life
the peace is passed and it grows
becoming the spiral dance of love
a love of time
a love of eternity
for two....
For Adobe H and Tristan Hobbes
5-16-03
~Caliope~
(\__/)
(=';'=)
Kitty Kitty in the air,
Kitty Kitty in my hair,
Kitty Kitty Everywhere!
/)/)
=';'=
(").(")
Bunny Bunny is Running,
Bunny Bunny is so cunning,
Bunny Bunny is So Funny!
~Ross
5-17-03
In life, please remember that only by letting go, do you truly gain anything. Love isn't about holding tight, it's about being free. Nothing
worth having is easy.
Hito & Emilyn Tetsuoto - March 16, 2003
*This is not a test*
This is not a test
we know your internal systems shut down
we see your heart beat fluctuate
we're here to assure you this is not a test
this is real
the sirens you hear are your screams
this will continue for a long time
this is not a test
this is what your life is right now
where do you measure up?
How much before you break?
This is not a test....
but you will pass or fail
where will you be?
when the test stops.
@~>~
~LdyCalliope~
