Under a Thousand Bridges [Free Verse]

Photograph of an Interstate highway bridge over the Chattahoochee River at Paces Mill Park.
When you've gone under
a thousand bridges,
and never come across
a Troll...

You have to wonder
whether the Troll is you.

Family Resemblance [Kyōka]

Chinese temple pond:
dragonhead tortoise sculpture.
live turtles swim
and sun in those waters.
do they see the likeness?

DAILY PHOTO: Bronze Guardian Lion

Dragons [Lyric Poem]

I see Dragons on the walls
Of temples and market stalls.
From Shanghai to London way,
I've seen them by night and day.
I've seen them skewered by St. George
And belching flame like a forge.
I saw one once in Baku,
But never saw one in a Zoo.

PROMPT: Animal

Daily writing prompt
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?

A mythical one to be sure. Cobbled together and a product of pure imagination. Griffin, Minotaur, Dragon, Vietnamese Unicorn (not to be confused with the kind hung as posters on the walls of pre-teen American girls,) or something of that nature.

Dragon Rider Limerick

There once was a rider of dragons
Who drank alcohol by the flagon,
But dragons are mythic,
So, there was an uptick
In rides when he fell off the wagon.

DAILY PHOTO: Thar be Dragons

Stone Guard [Free Verse]

arrayed in pairs,
mythical guardians
stand aside a stone staircase

the tourists seem
undissuaded by the figures -
be they freakish, grotesque,
or mean

the most dismaying of them
may be the ones with a
warm, polite 
grin...

and a lion's body

DAILY PHOTO: Mythical Beasties of Hanoi Staircases

Taken in December of 2015 in Hanoi

DAILY PHOTO: Mythical Beasts of Khajuraho

Taken at Khajuraho in October of 2015

Taken at Khajuraho in October of 2015

 

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