Unchained Dragon

The poem & story: "Unchained Dragon & the legend of the wandering Prophetess, Christkindl, that unchained & changed Him," was inspired by & set in Medieval chivalry & the ceremonies done to the making of Knights. Chivalry is the medieval knightly system that had its religious, moral, & social codes, with the combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, that of courage, honor, courtesy, justice, & readiness to help the weak. Christkindl is German for the wandering Christ-child, an original Santa Claus type, but in German lore, a female saint or Santa, that wanders the whole earth teaching, gift giving, & testing our true charity, or non-charitable attitudes. Thus, this poem & story was inspired by Medieval Knight lore, ceremonies for chivalry, & German Christmas Christkindl traditions.The story poem: The wandering prophetess, Christkindl, seeking shelter from a storm, enters a cave & discovers a sleeping dragon, that wakes up. Charmed by her beauty, the dragon warms her by starting a small fire. Christkindl sings to the dragon about how, though unchained, he's been chained by invisible chains, to the treasure he had taken from humans, a thousand years ago. The invisible chains was his fear, that if he left his cave, someone would take some of his treasure, thus he stayed guarding it, & didn't realize that a 1000 or more years had gone by. Having wandered the whole world, Christkindl tells him about the beautiful world out side, & gets him to unchain himself from his fear & other negative traits, & free himself from the treasure that he couldn