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
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