How Goes Your War?

When powers of darkness strive, conspire, keep you in their control,
to fence you round in fear and lies, true history untold,
best weapon of defence – offence. The secret never found,
no matter what the torture used to prize it from your ground,
not spoiled as plunder of the fight, or from its place be wrest:
to victory belongs the light, the love within your breast.

Bad writing

I have been wondering what makes for bad writing. Of course, everyone writes the best they can, and deserve neither blame or criticism, but is there such a thing as bad writing? And what are its components? Maybe bad is not the right word, as it is so emotive. What makes some writing "better" than others?

Dragon

Dragon over Crystal Palace Park


From realms of inner earth the dragon came.
She visited her earthly kin today,
but found them petrified. 'Twas tough.
Sadly she wheeled and turned at bay,
tears fell as steam, her breath
a rasping gasp, a cry that fried,
a wish of anguish, loud,
and magically left
the merest puff
of cloud,
to mark her passing to her own domain.