# Dragon Haiku: Storms of Old

Author: Nenekiri
Tags: Dragon, Poetry, haiku

#1 of Poetry

Decided to do a little bit of experimenting with one of my favorite types of poetry: Haiku.
Each stanza in the poem is a haiku, meaning the lines are composed of 5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again.
I thought it would be fun to write it from the perspective of a grand and imposing dragon as he muses on the aftermath of a rainstorm.

This is a repost from Furaffiinty:

Storms of Old

  

Thunder crashing down

Rushing wind and rain strike out

Against tired earth

  

Man talks of mighty

Storms that shake the ground around

Their tiny feeble feet

  

Have they forgotten?

The skies of old held greater

Terror than drizzles

  

Do they not recall?

Wingbeats of beasts much larger

Screeching into towns

  

Gral the Imposing

Could spray more lightning than this

Trifle of a storm

  

Homes floated away

In the aftermath of Oun

The Bringer of Floods

  

Time makes memory

Fuzzy and so man gets complacent

Fearing simple rain

  

They lament their trees

And their streets, not realizing

It could be much worse

  

But I remember

The days when storms brought entire

Continents to ruin.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/AnKvQvmE
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