title: All Things Dance Like Dragonflies: Transmundane poetry designed for every ordinary day.
author:  C. JoyBell C. 
description: <i>All Things Dance Like Dragonflies </i>was a newborn experience, for me. Writing the poems contained in this book, I wrote under the influence of this title and I believe many of the poems herein feel tangible, transparent, and luminous: like dragonfly wings! A number of writings within this book managed to occupy the more prominent areas of my heart and have since become my personal absolute favorites!
zlib_text: **THE PRINCESS AND THE QUEEN,**
  
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  **OR,**
  
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  **THE BLACKS AND THE GREENS**
  
  Being A History of the Causes, Origins, Battles, and Betrayals of that Most
  Tragic
  
  Bloodletting Known as the Dance of the Dragons, as set down by Archmaester
  Gyldayn of
  
  the Citadel of Oldtown
  
  (here transcribed by GEORGE R. R. MARTIN)
  
  The Dance of the Dragons is the flowery name bestowed upon the savage
  internecine
  
  struggle for the Iron Throne of Westeros fought between two rival branches of
  House
  
  Targaryen during the years 129 to 131 AC. To characterize the dark, turbulent,
  bloody
  
  doings of this period as a “dance” strikes us as grotesquely inappropriate. No
  doubt the
  
  phrase originated with some singer. “The Dying of the Dragons” would be
  altogether more
  
  fitting, but tradition and time have burned the more poetic usage into the
  pages of history,
  
  so we must dance along with the rest.
  
  There were two principal claimants to the Iron Throne upon the death of King
  Viserys I
  
  Targaryen: his daugh