Well! not much sign of any poetry on this blogsite lately - have to do something about that!!!

I took a friend to visit Windsor Castle a couple of weeks back. As a local I can get in free- she's like that, the Queen- lets her mates in. Me and her - we're like that! you know. NOT
Anyway- my friend wanted to get this book of dragon poems for her friend back home and she got me one too, coz I went all starry eyed about the pics. Sorry- can't show you the pics but here is one of the poems. 

Happy Birthday, Dear Dragon

There were rumbles of strange jubilation
in a dark, subterranean lair,
for the dragon was having a birthday,
and his colleagues were gathering there.
'HOORAH!' groaned the trolls and the ogres
as they pelted each other with stones.
'HOORAH!" shrieked a sphinx and a griffin,
and the skeletons rattled their bones. 

'HOORAH!' screamed the queen of the demons,
'HOORAH!" boomed a giant. 'REJOICE!'
'Hoorah!' piped a tiny hobgoblin
in an almost inaudible voice.
'HOORAH!" cackled rapturous witches.
'Hooooorah!' hissed a basilisk too.
then they howled in cacophonous chorus,
'HAPPY BIRTHDAY,DEAR DRAGON,TO YOU!'

They whistled, they squawked, they applauded,
as they gleefully brought forth the cake.
"OH THANK YOU!"
he thundered with pleasure
in a bass that made every ear ache.
Then puffing his chest to the fullest,
and taking deliberate aim,
the dragon huffed once at the candles -
and the candles all burst into flame!

I had great fun reading this at a poetry circle in lots of different funny voices.