The Dragon in the Room
Is Love Too Much To Ask For?
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As all the points of life
shatter, shine and dance
I wonder at the pain
the pointlessness, the chance.
I want to build a refuge
A place to hold the hurt
I want a fort, a bastion
stand of strength and stone.
I want a place to rest,
to sleep perchance to dream
a home where all beings gather,
slide and seem.
There is neither a before and seldom happy after
But there is now
And then is now
And now is ever after.
Safe, shatter, shining
gleaming, breathing
Holding, seeming,
hold –
breathe –
and take grasp
life matters
life lasts –
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About the Book
Love is like a dragon in the room; it can lay there sleeping for what seems like a hundred years then suddenly wake and terrify or seduce. It is powerful and swift, slow and cumbersome. A dragon destroys or protects, just like love.
In her collection of poetry, The Dragon in the Room, author J. K. E. Rose chronicles her thoughts about love. People fear its power. They creep around, not wanting to rouse it—but are even more scared of leaving it behind. People want love but are afraid of it, so they try not to wake the sleeping dragon. They don’t know what to say, what words will stop a dragon or a love gone bad, or how to ask for the love they are terrified of wanting. People pretend too much because honesty requires the right words.
The verses of The Dragon in the Room describe the dragons J. K. E. Rose has lived with, the dragon that lives within her. They explore love for partner, children, family, and self; words spoken and unspoken; words to keep the dragon and keep love; and words to let them both go.
About the Author
J. K. E. Rose spent years writing for television and raising kids, cats, horses, and dogs on her old Christmas tree farm in southern Ontario.
There was the first husband, and then there was the second husband …
Then there was the poetry …
been there,
done that,
have the scars.