The poem that inspired the novel…
Alexander
One maiden lays of midst the hands
of a dragon
grasping o’er the sands
lain upon a mountain’s pier
his sorrowed lips drape e’er the land
dripping off a wayward tear
and whispers flow
through morning’s end
his wings of once a whispered tide
do drape of now from sorrows breathing, haunting cries
he dreams of days yet of her life
her kiss twould make
it all but right
she’d ride upon his rippling wings
and land upon
she’d prick a flower of in bloom
when given him
a sight to see
the dragon swooned
he’d blushed a million times before
but yet he’d blush but once a more
these two a pair of framed above
dragon
woman
and of their love
he blew a kiss but of the stars
and wept but of
their dreams beyond.
Scott J. Toney, Dusk Crescence