The Dragon in the Room: Is Love Too Much to Ask For?

By J.K.E. Rose

Love is like a dragon in the room; it can lay there sleeping for what seems like a hundred years then suddenly wake and terrify or seduce. It is powerful and swift, slow and cumbersome. A dragon destroys or protects, just like love.

In her collection of poetry, The Dragon in the Room, author J. K. E. Rose chronicles her thoughts about love. People fear its power. They creep around, not wanting to rouse itbut are even more scared of leaving it behind. People want love but are afraid of it, so they try not to wake the sleeping dragon. They dont know what to say, what words will stop a dragon or a love gone bad, or how to ask for the love they are terrified of wanting. People pretend too much because honesty requires the right words.

The verses of The Dragon in the Room describe the dragons J. K. E. Rose has lived with, the dragon that lives within her. They explore love for partner, children, family, and self; words spoken and unspoken; words to keep the dragon and keep love; and words to let them both go.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Dec 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491713181

J.K.E. Rose

J. K. E. Rose spent years writing for television and raising kids, cats, horses, and dogs on her old Christmas tree farm in southern Ontario. There was the first husband, and then there was the second husband … Then there was the poetry … been there, done that, have the scars.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-1317-4 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013919556

iUniverse rev. date: 03/31/2014

CONTENTS

INTROduction

Dragons

Dragons

Dragons

Dragons

Dragons

Dragonsblood

Dragonsbrood

Dragonyoung

Dragonsbane

Dragonyoung

Dragons

Dragons

Dragonsdeath

Dragonjoy

Dragonstime

Dragonbitter

Dragontrap

Dragonsbane

Dragonsbane

Dragonshope

Dragonsfear

Dragonshope

Dragonyoung

Dragoncaught

Dragoncaught

Dragonyoung

Dragonlove

Dragonbitter

Dragonbitter

Dragonbitter

Dragonbitter

Dragonyoung

Dragonbitter

Dragonlove

Dragonmagic

Dragonstrong

Dragonbitter

Dragoncold

Dragonsfear

Dragonsgold

Dragonssight

Dragonsend

Dragonslove

Dragonscurse

Dragonyoung

Dragonyoung

Dragondream

Dragonlove

Dragonyoung

Dragonsbane

Dragonsrest

Dragonstrong

Dragonsbane

Dragonstrong

Dragonfree

Dragonkept

Dragonfreed

Dragonloved

Dragonborne

After The END

INTRODUCTION

Hundreds of years ago I had a mother born in Ireland. I think the Vikings must have raided her village because I have an affinity for the Norse - I am tall, I am blonde, I am stoic - stereotypically and perhaps completely inaccurately Norse.

Anyway, as I gathered my poems, I realised they were really