knights in distress...

Photo: (c) Lyn McKelvie 2014.

I'd really had enough

of this thing called love,

I wasn't looking.
I was saying a resounding

"No more to Amore!!" /

And then, when I least expected it,

there you were:

Bang bang banging
on my heart, my castle walls & door.

I've never really been that into princesses,

I prefer the strong women

who don't require rescuing
(I don't mind admitting in this clumsy, manly rhyme) /

But here's the truth

and it may surprise or even shock you:
The real men, the good (not "nice")

knights of this world...

...We're the ones

who need rescuing, from time to time.

(c) Brent M Harpur 2014.

“Fairy tales are more than true:

Not because they tell us that dragons exist,

but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” 

(Neil Gaiman, 'Coraline'.)

“Sleeping on a dragon's hoard

with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart,

he had become a dragon himself.”

(C.S. Lewis)

“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.” 

(Ilona Andrews)