by Scott Toney
   The poem that inspired the novel…
   Alexander
   One maiden lays of midst the hands
   of a dragon
   grasping o’er the sands
   lain upon a mountain’s pier
   his sorrowed lips drape e’er the land
   dripping off a wayward tear
   and whispers flow
   through morning’s end
   his wings of once a whispered tide
   do drape of now from sorrows breathing, haunting cries
   he dreams of days yet of her life
   her kiss twould make
   it all but right
   she’d ride upon his rippling wings
   and land upon
   a field of only found in dreams
   she’d prick a flower of in bloom
   when given him
   a sight to see
   the dragon swooned
   he’d blushed a million times before
   but yet he’d blush but once a more
   these two a pair of framed above
   dragon
   woman
   and of their love
   he blew a kiss but of the stars
   and wept but of
   their dreams beyond.
   Scott J. Toney, Dusk Crescence