Little Dragons

I crept up to the rocking chair
Perched beside my bedroom door,
Pressed my ear up to the wood
Waiting for daddy's snores,

Silence in heaps,
Between discounted sheep,
Blared into the darkness,

Until, an eye-squeezing roar
Shook the entire first floor, 
Following my tiptoes across the carpet.

Down the hall and to the left
And quickly up the stairs

(Swiftly, I went
In my flighty ascent -
Should goblins follow,
Me - unawares),

I burst into the attic
Heart naively in so much panic,
And evened my back with the sturdy door,

The attic, at last!
The window ahead,
And beyond it,
I could only imagine.

-- 

Daddy told me once,
Behind billows of smoke,
That the more I dreamt
The more things awoke,

I dreamt of a dragon
In bed that night,
So, with the stars, up high
Should be a dragon in flight,

I threw open the curtains,
Soul, a wish-filled flagon,
I held my breath tight 
To behold my...lizard?

--

An itty bitty
Teeny weeny
Green,

(and somewhat, brownish)

Thing,

Crawled across
My window sill 
Lacking all his
Dragon things,

His dragon hue,
And dragon size,
Everything
Dragon-wise,

I plopped down to
The floor beneath
The window,
And I took a seat,

I watched that little
Dragonette -
Slowly trying
To just forget,

The dragon I had come to see
Hadn't cared enough to come see me,

Then that lizard did a crazy thing -
Popped up his head -
Showed' a big pink thing!

I wasn't sure what sounds lizards made
So, I moved up close,
'cause I wasn't afraid.

Eye to eye,
I leaned in close,
Then that thing jumped forward
And bit my nose!

...

I'm pretty sure he liked me.

Author's Note

Behind the eclipsing moon, came a dragoness.

Reviews

[Larry Dyson]

she loves ...it!!!!! you should have seen the scrunched up shoulders and silly nose she made when he Jumped up and bit her .....nose....she says she agrees ..He liked her...ty so much...

[Larry Dyson]

absolutely deliteful...when she slows down enough tonite I will read it to her...illustrated by My voice...ty

[Elephants & Coyotes]

My hope was for it to read similarly to a bedtime story.