Poetry for the Yellow Dragon

As some of you will know (Ah maybe I have not mentioned it) my humble little blog has for reasons I do not understand become slightly popular in Japan. When I say popular I mean at least two folk are reading it, but some days I get more page views from Japan than anywhere else. So I have attempted to write for the letter Y a poem that has a bit of Japanese wisdom in it, and that might . . . . .  had it been written in Japanese sound like it was written in Japan.  

Now there is one slight problem with using the letter Y for this, and it is the fact the Dragon is Yellow, because as for as I can see Yellow Dragons tend to come from China. However Mr Yamamoto does travel across the sea for many many miles and so it might be that he does meet a friendly Chinese yellow dragon.

Anyway if you are one of my japanese readers then this is for you and thanks for reading. 

Y

The Young and adventurous Mr Yamamoto

Set sail in a boat made from a cherry tree

To find the Yellow Dragon

In the famed waters of the Yellow Sea

He sailed for weeks and weeks

Through Storms and calm and swell

Until he arrived at the fabled island (伝説的な   島)
The land were the Yellow Dragon is said to dwell

He battled through the forest

And up mountains that stretched up into the sky

Watched with curiosity the whole time

By the Yellow Dragons all seeing eye

Eventually they came face to face

And the Yellow Dragon

Asked him Why

He had travelled so many miles

When everyone had told him he would surely die

The Young adventurous Mr Yamamoto

Bowed at the wonderment of the great Yellow beast

And said he had brought many cherry’s

So that they could have a magnificent feast

So they sat and talked until darkness fell

And when they parted, many things

The Young adventurous Mr Yamamoto

Did now truly understand

And he returned to his family

A much richer and wiser man

Back to his old Homeland