The Dragon
A poem inspired by Alfred Noyes
The moon was a fading whisper that the light was chasing away
The forest was a motionless sea, the trees didn't even sway
The sun was a giant torch, with a fire oh, so bright
And the dragon, it came soaring—
soaring—soaring—
The dragon, it came soaring and its scales gleamed in the light
This is the second of my writing samples. This was the result of an assignment for my high school creative writing class. The instructions were to write a piece that uses the same rythm and rhyme scheme as the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noise. If you wish to read the original poem, the button I have included below will take you to the Poetry Foundation page for the original poem. I chose the subject because at the time I was really interested in the How to Train Your Dragon movie franchise. I could not stop fantasizing about the movie, so instead of fighting it, I decided to work it into my poem. Appearently that was the right decision, because the poem was published in my school's literary magazine.