Paint Chip Octave No. 4

I’m going to sound like a broken record, but as you can see I’m late again with this Friday’s prompt. But we’re still having another octave prompt in the continuing poem of five octaves. For the definition of octave and the full prompt, see this post from three weeks ago.

The Challenge

The paint chip words and phrases you have to work with this week are rolling hills, smoke and ash, radical, smoke signal, and dragon. I’d like you to use at least two of these in your octave for this week. Your octave should be a continuation of what you started on the first Friday of October. If you haven’t started your poem yet, you can always just write a stand-alone octave for this week.

My Poem

Although my continuing saga of my teddy bear Calvin has been partially fictional already, the words for this week suggest a venture into a truly fictional and aspirational adventure for my bear. But the I venture into his origin story, which I will wrap up next week in the final octave.

Though I'm usually a down-to-earth kind of bear
I often dream of trekking over the rolling hills
Of Middle Earth on a hobbit's adventurous affair
We would look for dragon treasure and great thrills
But perhaps such a dream is much too radical
For a elderly teddy bear such as I am
And it's not as if the life I've lived is dull
It began as part of a claw-machine grand slam

Your Turn

Now it’s your turn. Whether you write an octave as part of your continuing saga or a stand-alone verse, share it in the comments or post it on your website or blog and drop a link in the comments. Make sure you check out the other linked poems.