The Guardian Poem by C.Ann Penning

Under the steel twilight skies,
Under the dawn's fire and ice
She whispers out to the earth,
Unveil your dark boundless knight

Shades of amber, emerald green
Softly pour silk cyan seas
Above arctic mountains high
Set free crystal butterflies

Glacial lakes and royal streams
Loose the beast from your labyrinth
Calve and roll and gently roar
As iced feathered wings unfold

With mighty force nature flies
A majestic shade of blue
Mesmerizing, scarlet eyes
He who guards her in the night

Protects her hopes, all her dreams
Destroys evil where it lurks
Talons carve a frozen scene
Soothes the princess of the deep

Fiery flames of day arise
She calls the guard back to hide
Under sheets of ivory floes
A sea serpent he returns

Cleaves the princess to his side
Sings her soothing lullabies
Under the dawn's fire and ice
They lay waiting twilight skies