When trolls see the daylight
they turn into stone
with bottoms of rock
that no longer moan
Lost to the Moonlight
trapped in the day
stoned trolls are left
to silently gaze
The once ferocious troll
on the mountains danced
with lightning and thunder
along ridges pranced
At times under bridges
waiting for a traveler
to grab an ankle
and eat the rambler
Scattering bones
around on the ground
a warning to others
if that way bound
Now a troll of rock
no more do roam
trapped in the day
with a bottom of stone
Jaqi
Bluh
Tuesday
6
November
2018
NOTE ~ Rock Bottom is in the vein of a pun verse I made in the 1980s, when I had a studio and shop called ~ The Dragons Lair ~ in the Salamanca Arts Centre. This was an old complex of stores and factories, built in the early 1800s, with sandstone walls and great wooden rafters like a castle, and with bars on the first floor windows, where my place was located. I'd put a green dragon out the window, with it hanging onto the bars, and without looking, pour some water out, and then look out to see if a got anyone. Sometimes people would look up, but I think I always missed. Devilment. Once a Japanese publication made a story on the Dragons Lair, but I could not read Japanese, so who knows what they wrote of me and the Lair. Looked good, with the dragon hanging off the window bars. And when ere anyone ventured up the stairs to find the Dragons Lair, I would dare to share my pun verse ~
Fire breathing dragons may eat you at night
smoke fuming beasties consume you alright
Fried or grilled or roasted
they don't really mind
as long as you are tasty
with ketchup on the side
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