| dream-gold glowing
with the sun inside emerald rich enough to satisfy silver singing sweet as children know that silver is supposed to sing rising up slowly sliding forever curving as softly as infinity does bending a head like a six-year old's fireworks the dragon looks down with his lucid red eyes each like a hall that a king carved of ruby ... some people say dragons are shadows of angels some say that angels are just dragons' dreams |
To me, the dragon has always been a symbol of the creative fire inside. Dragon Pending
In my personal mythology the interpretation of the archetypal image of dragon guarding golden hoard and armored hero opposing dragon is: the dragon guards the treasures of human creative spirit against the destructive side of human nature -- the "thug on horseback". Mother of Dragons
All three of the above poems imply the dangerous quality of dragons along with their beauty, vitality and wisdom. The lifeforce, the creative spirit itself, is just such an ambiguous, multiply-edged force.