"Dragon!" Lady Aqua cries,
gripping tight her boomerang blades
that glow with oceanic energy.
The ends of her hair curl
in the heat of her burning island.
"Dragon!" Her voice is husky with rage.
"Dragon! Dragon!"
An enormous winged silhouette circles above.
Horses stampede through the inferno,
their riders killed.
The world is a red eye and Lady Aqua
is its pupil.
"Draaaagon!"
She swings her
whistling blades
at the wind.
The flying shape descends,
huffing black puffs of smog,
and she marches to face the creature,
scorched grasses crunching
under her boots.
Nearing, the winged giant thrashes to a halt
midair and exhales a wisp of fire
that sizzles out before it reaches Lady Aqua.
A warning.
She extends her glowing blades
and shrieks, "Draaaaaaaaaaaagon!"
The creature settles
in the ashes it created,
looms over her,
snaps its gigantic sickle teeth,
and gurgles flammable bile.
She dashes at her colossal foe.
It breathes forth its blaze
in a horizontal column.
But Lady Aqua cuts that pillar of fire in two
with the oceanic weapons she wields.
And through the parting flames
she charges on,
throws her boomerang blades to spin
like helicopter seeds,
singing whooshing songs against the air.
The weapons slash into the dragon's throat,
and the ferocious reptile
drags down half a palm forest while toppling.
Lady Aqua climbs onto the scaly mound
that is the dragon she killed.
She wrenches her blades from its neck,
then raises them to a sky
full of more enormous winged silhouettes.
A warm snow of ashes flurries.
The gust brings a scent like coal.
Embers scintillate among rocks.
She flicks the dragon blood
off her boomerang blades
and snickers as,
in the water surrounding the island,
fish load finned canons.
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Heartpen: Poems of a Cardiac Quill
PoetryAdventure calls to seekers from different eras, different towns, even different worlds. Paths cross. Journeys intertwine. This poetry book highlights mysteries that drive us. It explores loss, endurance, and the struggle to find truth. Featuring gr...
