"dragonfire" poems
How great it feels to conform
Shackled, restrained by norm
Because dragons won't win
Against the fighter planes
And hellfire missiles
Are better than dragonfire
The magical place of peace
Never touched by pollution
Away from industrial reality
Bullets will take away the light
Strongmen will put out embers
But the war cry of secret rebellion
Will summon the forbidden being
That will once again shine in gray clouds
And the being shall smote the heretic
As the legendary sword of freedom
Will make itself known to the risky
Adventures ragged but shining
Wide thinkers and everdrowsy dreamers
Descendants of crazies and misunderstoods
They hold the magic that allows them
To choose whatever path the story goes
Like the chaotic place called "poem"
Imaginary beasts and sceneries
Not bound by boundaries of these mortals
You hold the magic that will allow you
To choose whatever path the story goes
Like this chaotic place called "poem"
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019 at 11:28 AM UTC
Dragonfire Eyes
Shining Bright,
Revealing All
Throughout the Night.
Dragonfire Smile,
In the Sky.
Cities to Ash
We Don't Know Why.
Dragonfire Flames
In the Night,
Completely Shutting Out
The Fairy Lights.
Dragonfire Lost,
As All Fire Dies.
Creating Secrets,
Spreading Lies.
Dragonfire Hides
Out of Sight.
Filling People
Up With Fright.
Dragonfire Dream
Flying By.
Can't Be Caught.
It's up too high.
Dragonfire Fears,
A Chilling Bite.
Breathing In and Out
Is A Serious Fight.
Dragonfire Heart
Feelings Try
To Take Over My World,
Unsatisfied.
Dragonfire Love,
Heart is Tight.
Surpressing Joy
With All My Might.
Dragonfire Life,
Sad, Tis Quite.
I'm Cutting It short.
The Ending's Not Right.
~Ashton Grayson Everly
Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 11:37 AM UTC
The long-running, much-celebrated show
turned out not to be a metaphor
for climate change, feminist empowerment
or anything anyone at all hoped for really.
The show turned out to be just a symbol for itself,
for failed institutions, institutional disappointments,
a theme mined by a much better HBO program
that ended its run years and years and years ago.
Viewers were up in arms everywhere over errant
character arcs, unearned twists, abandoned storylines,
forsaken backstories, squandered character development,
the burning detritus of lazy writing atop a pile of false promises.
Every institution fails you in the end.
In the end, no matter how much it seems like a marble pillar
or Valyrian steel forged in a furnace of dragonfire,
every institution ultimately fails you in the end.
May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019 at 3:55 AM UTC