Chapter Title: Harper's Habit
Chapter Summary: A place to put a collection of poetry pieces, too short to get their own chapters like Ballad of Mourning. Might be a reoccurring piece, might not. We'll see how the mood takes me.
Title: Drum Report
Summary: Harpers make do.
Prompt: Tool
Drummer, report
Quick words
On the heights
Of dragon flights
Which the Bronze
That sires Blues?
Which the Bronze
And Queen that flew?
Title: And Menolly, Spiderclaws Too
Summary: Safe - secure container of precious things
Prompt: Safe
An acrostic poem, written for the fan_flashworks prompt safe. I figured it fit in here, with the rest of the harper scraps, rather than a blink and you'll miss it standalone chapter.
Safe in her cave and
Air filled with Thread Menolly
Feeds firelizards spiderclaws
Earns their love too
Title: Dragons Must Fly
Summary: A varient on the theme I noted a chapter or two back.
Prompt: fire + comet
The middle rhyme, as you will notice, is the title of another entry in this collection. It got stuck in my head.
Can be read as circa Morea's Ride, but it works with whichever Fall you prefer.
Firestone flies
And dragons ride fall
Quicker through the turns
Pern's holds call
Dragons must fly
Or Pern will die
Writhing grey, threadscore burns
Till no life is left at all
Under untended skies
Title: Gone Away
Summary: Ramoth's egg is gone. Taken.
Prompt: egg
I'd forgotten until rcently hoe fun acrostics are. That said, I don't think this has quite enough rhythm to count as a Harper work, but it is once again too short to go on its own.
Every inch of the cavern searched, but heated sands reveals only
Glaring absence of sand, gleaming egg
Gone, though the clutch rests untouched
Even the greens hold their calls
Greens, as vocal as fire lizards are as silent as
Gold in grief and queens in mourning