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Dragon's rhymes, forgotten times
in the land of make believe.
Mystic mines, enchanted pines,
I might just never leave.
Siren's sighs, sweet little lies
but I just cannot bother.
Gossamer wings, a pixie sings
& I long for no other.
Playing a lyre by the Phoenix' fire,
nothing is as it seemed.
Dragon's rhymes, forgotten times...
youth cannot be redeemed

OH MY GOODNESS! Wonderful poem you have written!!

'King of Drek and Drivel' alert!
Chant with me: "King of Drek! King of Drek!"
And now for the King of Drek!

A discourse on time?

Our lives are not our own
on borrowed time we burn our flames
and play our games
like a restless wanderer under the moon
or a dog without a bone
our time here is only on loan
when we wake we see the day
we wake to a world not our own
journey starts and journey ends
never to begin again
never to be lived again
over in a brief blink of time
It takes all our lives as a seeming eternity
and is over all too quickly
a commodity easily squandered
priceless and impossible to hoard
well spent with friends and good company
thus so the nature of our time

I changed a few lines in it & omitted others.
It originally started as "tea times, dragon's
rhymes", but when I got to the end, I wanted it
to reflect the forgotten times of childhood, so
I switched it around & changed "tea" to "forgotten".
I was going to put in a line about gnomes, but decided
against it (I was running out of room on the page &
didn't like the way it sounded in the poem). I like this
one the way it is, "forgotten times" in the beginning has
a sense of ancient times kids like to imagine, with knights
& such. But in the end "forgotten times" reflects the
imagination of a child lost to adulthood. I'm glad
you like it, it took me about half an hour to think
it through (head cold, you know).

I remember two books I used to read, thick books
for a little kid, white covers. I think they were
called "World's Greatest Fairytales". It's just my
humble opinion, but I believe they're great books
to get the imagination going...