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ny of their dragon children there was nothing in them but hatred for the two legged race yang long the purple dragon matriarch led the other dragon families to lao long to protest lao long honored one why have you let this abomination into our cliffside wu long hides the human child like part of her hoard but we all have heard how she lets it drink of her red milk and play with her wormlings as one of her own how will those wormlings know to stay clear of humans if one is growing up with them they will all be killed what kind of example is this for our other great mothers and their children the green blue orange red silver and purple dragons all protest how can you let the golden mother wu long shame us all like this lao long raised his head and surveyed the audience of indignant dragon mothers until his gaze rested on yang long her purple scales blanched under his gaze and she suddenly felt ashamed taking his silence for disapproval well she said we can abide one human child in a cave that we will never see because he cannot fly he has no way to get from cave to cave and he cannot ever come down from this height soon wu long will see her folly and will surely do the right thing and eat him up before he causes trouble with that yang long led the dragon mothers out of lao long s cave and they flew home to their wormlings lao long sighed once more and lay his head back on its ledge but yang long did not count on the human child s worm mates when she said he could not fly when each wormling reached the age of flying their mother was moved by instinct and tradition to push him or her off the ledge for them to fall or fly very rarely did any but the weakest wormling actually fall almost always the wind caught their wings and they found themselves flying first in alarm and then in purest joy only coming back to their home cave like arrows when their hunger grew too great later as they weaned she would take them east to the plains so they could learn to hunt with claw and fang and kill their own food when they were injured she would lick their wounds until they healed as they matured they would go on their own forays in small groups and later alone building their treasure horde and competing with their worm mates one day when wu long was taking her wormlings to hunt one asked her why they must always leave the human child who the wormlings had taken to calling soft brother behind wu long was self conscious enough of other dragon s opinions that she did not want to be seen carrying the child outside of her cave but when two of her wormlings excitedly said they wanted to carry him to the hunting ground she relented soft brother had the wiry strength of a child that had grown up in a nest of dragons and he was not afraid of heights he wanted to see how to hunt and gladly put his arms out for his worm mates claws to carry him on this hunting trip the young dragons together brought down a large beast but when it fell it crushed one of the wormling s wings who was a moment too slow soft brother was glad to help lift the carcass off his worm mate so she could remove her wing but it was clearly broken the poor young dragon could barely fly back to the home cave even with her mother s nose pushing and catching her when she faltered when they were safely home soft brother looked at the wing and knew that no amount of licking by her dragon mother would heal it he touched his worm mate s head and then took the wing bone and made it straight the little dragon cried out in pain but did not bite in time the wing healed by then the two had become very close having spent much time alone together in the home cave while the others went hunting soft brother how is it you knew how to make my wing whole again if you had not i would have surely fallen and died for no dragon who cannot fly can survive long in the cave before she is pushed out scaly sister i just looked at your wing and saw how it must be set to look like other wings it was nothing soft brother you are too modest and truly have the heart of a dragon even if you look like a mongrel dog and she darted her head forward to nip his ankle even as he playfully dodged and kicked at the air near her head thus it was between them but the hunting trips with the human boy had set yang long to angry gossip again she brought all the many colored dragon mothers before lao long once more and asked for a full hearing before all the dragons when they were all assembled in the great cave yang long made her case lao long honored one we protested that this human child was among us an affront to all great mothers who have lost wormlings to human arrows and swords but this teaching him to hunt and taking him about the countryside on wormling mischief is beyond bearing he cannot fly he cannot hunt with claw and fang and he has no scales he is not a dragon even if he speaks like one he should be pushed off the ledge like any other wormling this is the right thing to do yang long and all the other dragons knew that if they pushed the human child off the ledge he would fall to his death but it was right that any wormling was not fully a dragon and could not long be left in the nest without being pushed out tradition and instinct were strong in this case many dragons hissed and bellowed their support of what yang long had proposed soft brother and scaly sister exchanged glances they did not want to part scaly sister worried for her human worm mate who had saved her from certain death by fixing her broken wing most wormlings do not survive their first mistake and scaly sister thus had the beginnings of wisdom in her she spoke to the assembled dragons soft brother has been our worm mate since we were in the egg he drank the red milk of our mother alongside us and took our claws and tail strikes and became strong he has a noble dragon heart even if he has no scales he fixed my wing when i would surely have fallen this should be enough to keep him among us lao long the ancient white dragon king looked for some time at this young wormling after her little speech but said nothing yang long taking lao long s silence for assent drove her case home this one you call your brother cannot be a true brother unless he is pushed from the cave we all know this to be right golden wu long mother you must push him with your nose from this cave this instant we all watch you with approval or disapproval to see what you do next wu long looked at her strange small human child and felt the instinct pull her forward to nose his chest soft brother showed no fear as he walked forward to the edge of the cave scaly sister gave a plume of flame and a howl in protest but all other dragons were silent and waiting lao long behind them raised his head high off its resting place so he could see with one last nudge wu long pushed the human child off into the bitter empty winds he fell without a cry and yang long gave a triumphant grunt as if that had taken care of the problem all the dragons except wu long and scaly sister turned back from the ledge to face ancient lao long but as they stared into the mist below wu long and scaly sister exclaimed in surprised unison drawing all the dragons attention back to the ledge and the sky outside wu long began trumpeting and blowing long plumes of fire into the sky and scaly sister leapt about and called her worm mates to the ledge to see before the assembled dragons was an astounding sight a small but spectacular wormling dragon with scales of every different dragon color a rainbow of green blue orange red silver purple and gold the human child had transformed into this resplendent young dragon as it fell ancient lao long broke the astounded silence speaking for the first time in long dragon memory when i lost my son the dragon prince i knew that he had not been killed in some exploit but that he had fallen in love with a beautiful human woman from a province to the south he had chanced upon her alone at her bath in the pools of a warm riverbank when she saw him she stood unafraid overcome by his beauty as he was by hers they met many times and he flew her on his back in secret passion during the full moons in despair and shame he eventually came to me with his problem he did not know that this was not the first time our races had joined bearing lines of great human rulers artisans teachers and martial heroes over the centuries because i loved him and saw how completely his heart was already joined with hers i told him of the ancient dragon magic of transformation with the cost that he could never assume his dragon form again never fly again that he would choose such sacrifice was a mark of his deep love so i gave him my blessing to relinquish his bloodright as prince and to marry this human woman with part of my horde as the dowry i asked only that he send me his own first born son to be my heir which he took his time in doing he did not want to give away his own child and they used human women s arts to delay the quickening of a child but they delayed too long he did not realize that as a human he was subject to age and disease that we would not be in our dragon form when he realized he was aging they finally made a child together but he did not survive to bring it to me he taught his wife to find the paths to our home and taught her the elder symbol for dragon which she painted in her own blood on the child s chest so that i would know him but the child s scent alone would have told me all may we honor forever the memory of his human mother and her sacrifice in bringing him home to us golden mother wu lao has raised my heir and he has grown strong on the milk of dragons once a century such a rainbow dragon is born destined to rule because he carries the lines of all dragon families within him and now for the first time in both our races history he also carries human blood and can change at will from form to form because he knows what it is to be weak he will be a compassionate ruler because he knows what it is to be human and dragon the age of his reign will help heal the ancient enmity between our two races the dragons hung their heads low in honor of the young rainbow dragon prince who landed lightly on the cave ledge he crawled forward his gaze and his head low before lau long and said grandfather lao long your scales were once rainbow like mine and my father s before me now you have turned white with age and wisdom thank you for welcoming me and for helping me find my true history i will fulfill your prophecies with all my power it is so good to be home september 3 2008 empedokles posted by rick mobbs under did not love hold me empedokles holderlin poetry leave a comment empedokles you seek life and a godly fire gushes and gleams for you out of the earth as with shuddering long you hurl yourself down to the flames of the etna so by a queen s wanton whim peals were dissolved in wine heed her not what folly poet to cast your riches into that bright and bubbling cup yet still are you holy to me as the might of the earth that bore you away audaciously perishing and i would follow the hero into the depths did love not hold me johann christian friedrich holderlin august 29 2008 read by kate fishman posted by rick mobbs under art ekphrasis image prompt kate fishman poetry storybook collaborative 2 comments read lovingly my dragon pressed its body against me sucking in the fearlessness of my brave little soul yes i am brave i whispered i am just like peter pan and robin hood and all the brave heroes i looked at the book in my hand and thought that there must be characters in there waiting for readers i wondered if a single one expected a brave reader who resembled peter pan i am a character in my own self and my life is my very own book i thought as i disappeared into the book august 28 2008 on ada s arrival by el senor openhand posted by rick mobbs under ada corinna meridian swinton art collaborative storybook ekphrasis image prompt poetry 1 comment these photos give me a place to post some of the poems friends have written to celebrate the arrival of the newest member of our family and her place in the bigger human and celestial picture broadus and ada 1st minutes ada 10 days wrinkled walnut cracking the salty rind and paper stiff skin from outer edges of your meaty limbs oh how you break us open as we peel snap sniff you into our lives a kiss to our lips breadloaf warm steaming moist til we have chewed enough the laughter runs like water and we thirst no more love to you all peter august 26 2008 obama s speech posted by rick mobbs under alice o leary art collaborative storybook obama poetry xpalla leave a comment xpalla s reaction to the speech posted on m e g o the unraveling of the world it hurts to watch to closely the smog the hate the crime where did it all go wrong he said i thought that i had tried he reaches out to touch them but the pain is much to strong as the smog begins to embrace him he wonders what went wrong if only they would listen i am closer than it appears the answer is so simple yet they refuse to hear august 26 2008 silly little door posted by rick mobbs under alice o leary art collaborative storybook ekphrasis image prompt picture prompt poetry who the heck is alice xpalla leave a comment it all started with a silly refrigerator door found it in the backyard and thought it needed more the wholes added something but i wasn t quite sure the years rolled by and the wholes stayed the same until one day images appeared that changed the whole game the images were graphic and symbolic to the door how could we sill have hunger hate and war so on we march with power and greed never really seeing the ones in need if only we could see how one silly little door symbolizes how we are starving for peace and not war let the hunger seep into each of us and help us open up the door to let the light shine on each of us from that silly refrigerator door august 26 2008 alice still doesn t have a blog posted by rick mobbs under alice o leary art collaborative storybook ekphrasis image prompt painting poetry uncategorized who the heck is alice why we fight xpalla leave a comment february 3 2008 i believe that thisinvitation was the beginning of the storybook expalla too me up on it and wrote there was no denying the look in her eye she loved him more than she realized his trip to oz would be long and trying but she knew he would return with the heart brains and courage her little monsters would need to survive by xpalla the note at the time i had reservations about the poem i matched with the painting here and so took it down so in the spirit of collaboration if you or you and your kids or your kids or anyone else would like to offer poems captions or stories to accompany this picture i will submit them to the committee broadus and naomi and we will publish them here august 26 2008 coach morgan posted by rick mobbs under art boxing coach collaborative storybook ekphrasis fight image prompt pai...