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our hero has arrived

...OUR Hero Has ARRIVED
When we were children playing in the street
we had our hero,  usually a rugged actor
perhaps it was Gary Cooper. He had to be tall
walk with a swagger 
To be able to do thin...
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Categories: slay the dragon, adventure, age, appreciation, best
Form: Free verse

slaying dragons

...Slaying dragons


I sat in my den, trying to compose a poem
which is not easy for a pretender
a scream from the living room, she heard
something in the kitchen and sent me there
to slay the dr...
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Categories: slay the dragon, adventure, anti bullying, color,
Form: Blank verse



Premium MemberYear of the Rat

...How strange it is and how bizarre
  a pandemic should threaten from afar -
some say a bat, some say a lab
  and there’s no pill and there’s no jab!
Sniff! Sniff! I smell a virus worse than th...
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Categories: slay the dragon, evil, political, world,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Dragon

...There are men (fair knights) who always get what they want.
If suddenly, Mr. Knight doesn’t get - say, a girl (the fair maiden) - he’s confused - what IS this, he wonders but he doesn’t KNOW. We wil...
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Categories: slay the dragon, analogy, character, education, lost,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLike Bilbo

...I would like to live in a house in the The Shire;
sit upon the stoop, smoke a pipe, blow fancy rings
          into the air.

I would like to go adventuring; slay the dragon,
retrieve it's hoard...
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Categories: slay the dragon, adventure, fantasy, literature, myth,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberI, Zombie, Part Iv: the Turning

...In a Zombie’s world
There is no up, only down
And the ground is hard

In a Zombie’s world
There’s no forward, only back
An the doors are barred

But a Zombie’s world
All is not at all as it ...
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Categories: slay the dragon, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Haiku

Vodka and Love Songs

...I've got to let go, so I'm hoping my pen can hold this verse
I gave you somewhere to cry and now my shoulders hurt
I slayed the dragon to save you, just for you to stab me in the heart
From now on...
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Categories: slay the dragon, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Need New Fairy Tales

...As far as this mind can remember
The tales I was told where of a fair maiden
Living in the shadows of despair and pain
Longing for a new life over the jealous hills
     So she can be made anew i...
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Categories: slay the dragon, change, cinderella, life,
Form: Free verse

Last Gasp of a Basilisk Witnessed By Five Italians

...As Michael slay the dragon under God's command
Reni and Palumbo outstretched their hands
As that ancient serpent was finally cast away
Young Jacopo the dyer painted all the day
As the seraph vanq...
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Categories: slay the dragon, allegory, destiny, evil, faith,
Form: Rhyme

She Was

...She was the picture of peace for my spirit
That picture that said “it’s ok” when I saw it
She was of a good nature mellow down to earth
So worthy that everyday was joyful because of her being my p...
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Categories: slay the dragon, absence, anger, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme

Flying With Wax Wings

...Is it time again
Is this another day again
where I sit up once more
waste my fingers to the bone
to describe my grievance with the Sorceress
named Sarah...
No...not this time
Is it time again
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Categories: slay the dragon, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse

Precious Baby Girl

...Her laughs sweeter than sugar
Dancing around the room In circles
Until she gets dizzy and can't stand no more
Her smile was contagious 
Too bad life happened
And that smile had seen its last day...
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Categories: slay the dragon, abuse, beautiful, deep, depression,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberA Different Kind of Dragon Slayer

...She moans and tosses
He sleeps lightly as always
And quickly is wide awake
Aware of her every move
He knows what will follow
He is ready

The moaning becomes a scream
He feels the terror 
Kn...
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Categories: slay the dragon, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Twin Dragons

...The rushes sway gently in the wind
There is sea of them as they murmur in that wind
As wind blows through there appear waves on that sea of reeds
They are as mysterious as the soul

They are bea...
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Categories: slay the dragon, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Formula Won

...Untimed
Untamed
In the face of a thousand horsepower
Up rises the man of the hour
His passion peaked 
His focus tweaked
Raw
Pure
He spins and loops
Whirlpools each lap
Egos over rev
An enc...
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Categories: slay the dragon, hero, sports,
Form: Rhyme

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