Writings

Here you will find short stories and poems that do not fall under the other categories, but deserve to be shared nevertheless.

The Ten Commandments of the Black Dragon

As Dictated by the Most Exalted, Shadow-Scaled, and Modestly Superior Beings of the Night. 1. Thou Shalt Acknowledge Our Aesthetic DominanceBlack is not a color, it is the absence of color, just as other dragons are the absence of taste....

A Ballad of Wind and Ice

A small gift for two dragons I hold very dear. In a valley kissed by twilight’s gleam,There lay a valley with a single stream,
Where crystals caught the fading light,
A whispered tale took shape that night.Of two dragons who dared to...

De Vlucht der Eeuwigheid

Oh, hoe groots de hemel als ik mij verhef,mijn vleugels, zwart als nacht zelf,uitgespreid als de oneindige mantel der sterren.Ik stijg, ik val niet neen, ik word de lucht,een levend wezen van wind en wil, geen zwaarte die mij buigt....

The Agreement

I feel the wind brush softly against my scales, my wings shifting with a quiet rustle. I stretch out long and slow, my fangs gleaming, my claws sinking just a little into the warm rock beneath me.I feel peaceful. I...

Wings of Kin

Dedicated to the daughter I never knew I had, and now make sure I’ll never lose. Upon the winds, we first did meet,Two souls adrift on fate’s decree.Your scales like light, mine so deep,Yet something called; you flew to me....