Dragons By Color and Design

Dragons Color & Design No *boots on the ground for these old fellows flying Air force and Navy can’t hunt them down Dragons fly upside down, backwards and into tomorrow Swing on pendulums to swallow time In other realms they *weigh a billion tons if they weigh an ounce There is a chance they don’t exist at all It’s not my fault At least not here and now so what’s the bother I hear red *wings and things, you cannot fathom Along with golden eggs cracked and then devoured Are offered to the dragons at breakfast on the clouds After dawn inspired dragon songs by pretty girls are sung Rumor has it, all of this is wrong It is only children’s drawings with paints on paper This brings imagining to a screeching halt As school bells ring to wake us and the dragons Again, it’s not my fault 1.) * “boots” meaning soldiers- synecdoche 2.) * “weigh a billion tons"- hyperbole 3.) * “wings and things”- internal rhyme Created on 9/08/14 for Designed by Device – Poetry Contest