What think you of a 'dragon' poem?

Question

Dragons cave-wrapped...

Skyborne leather. Scales rain,

Rain...look to the Sun!

Look to the fields, forest!

Dragons of morning...cave-wrapped.

Leather wings. Storm skies!

Scaled skies! Play fire with lightning,

While prints water-fill, vanish

Into Myth, Legend.

The Archeologist takes off

His cap. Scratches. Holds a

Flatish stone...fossil?

Found in Neanderthal strata.

Of course! A scoop for soup!

Ancient, mammoth soup!

Why the scorch-marks,

Archeologist?

Look to the caves for more

Than...

Men.

Answer 1

Very nice. I like how i can see it.

Answer 2

mammoth soup pass the crackers.

Answer 3

Nope......don't like it.....

It hints of Norseland but doesn't mention it....

More like Holland....

but then they don't have dragons in Holland

...just drag queens.....

I thought you were going to make Norseland poems....

That's what I'm waiting for....

or more stories about Squiggly, Snidely, Chickie, Dog and the Elves....

Good Day 2 U...♥♥

Answer 4

Russian Ridgeback, or Hungarian Horntail, Or maybe the Kurack Dragon on the North Country.

Answer 5

I really like the way you could collect the sensation of the past with that of the present.  you mix science with fiction with poetry. It is hard to create such a feeling! u think about the past to have more that we (Archaeologists) could know, the feeling of the poet tells u that in these caves there were more that we think that we know!!!

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i am not sure but that what i could feel

Answer 6

The endearing mystery of the dragon in myth and legend.  Well visited is this with your offering, especially the last two stanzas.

Answer 7

Yes, archeologist, there is a dragon!

Answer 8

The Mystique of history unfolds before our very eyes.

Without my glasses I read that as scratch marks instead of scorch marks and I imagined Man trying desperately to claw his way out of the clutches of the dragon.

darn my eyes.....they're good! Either way you were out in the field digging and that was what you came up with. A poetic archeologist you are Elys!

Answer 9

Oh this is a good one!  Yes, archeologists miss things right under their nose.  Ya never know where myth and legend spring from.  Truth or fantasy?

Answer 10

Yes, this is wonderful.  Not only visual, but pensive as well. Use of language is both funny "a scoop for soup!" and elegant "Look to the caves for more/Than... Men."

Answer 11

good poem, I like everything except the use of the word flatish.