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CSFF and a Short, Happy Fantasy Poem

January 21st, 2007 | CSFF, fantasy, poetry, speculative fiction, writing

Tomorrow begins the next Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. We’ll be focusing on the super cool and humble and now CBA best-selling writer Wayne Batson.

(He and I even recorded a little podcast interview about his YA books The Door Within, Rise of the Wyrm Lord, The Final Storm. I’ll post it here tomorrow, so don’t forget your ipod.)

In the spirit of all things fantastic, here’s a little poem to start the week. I hope it makes you smile.

Myth and Insects

Janie asks if I have seen 36 butterflies before.
“It’s more than 24,” she says and I have to agree.
“That would be a lot of animals,” she continues.
Butterflies are insects, I explain giving her pause
in our backyard tent. “Insects are a kind of animal,”
she decides without the slightest care
for scientific classification. “Like unicorns.”
And it isn’t long before she asks
if I have seen 36 unicorns before.
“It’s more than 24.”

Here are some of the other people participating in this blog tour:

Jim Black
Jackie Castle
Valerie Comer
Karri Compton
Frank Creed
Gene Curtis
Chris Deanne
Janey DeMeo
Tessa Edwards
April Erwin
Linda Gilmore
Beth Goddard
Marcus Goodyear (duh)
Todd Michael Greene
Leathel Grody
Karen Hancock
Katie Hart
Sherrie Hibbs
Sharon Hinck
Joleen Howell
Kait
Karen
K. D. Kragen
Tina Kulesa
Lost Genre Guild
Kevin Lucia
Kevin Lucia’s The Bookshelf Reviews 2.0 - The Compendium
Rachel Marks
Shannon McNear
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Caleb Newell
Eve Nielsen
John Otte
Robin Parrish
Cheryl Russel
Hannah Sandvig
Mirtika Schultz
James Somers
Stuart Stockton
Steve Trower
Speculative Faith
Daniel I. Weaver

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    As a matter of fact I have seen 36 unicorns
    before, says the writer, and indeed it is more
    than twenty four; they are really quite a handful
    always stamping at my door.
    But have you ever seen 36 dragons all flying high up in the sky? Scales glistening in the sun, majestic wings spread wide. Now that's something you won't soon forget, he says, a smile in his eyes.
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    Thanks for the comment Wayne. I was looking at your blog some more today. You make blogger look good, dude.

    I really enjoyed our conversation for the podcast.

    To your comment specifically, the first dragon I saw was Eustice, poor Eustice, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And I still have a physically response when I think of the scene where Aslan digs his claws into Eustice's thick dragon skin to help him peel it all off.

     Reading that passage aloud to my daughter last year, I could tell she'll have a similar memory.

    Thanks for doing your part to keep fantasy alive.

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