Imagine
in the wake of rabbits;
born from death of moon,
dragons
fierce, bold, best
rise in fame
to claim the sky,
the sea, the soil;
cradled by the sickle moon,
our soul may grow
in harmony with stars
begin believing
hope, just hope.
Today Lilian hosts dVerse Quadrille were we write poems to the word imagine. On friday we have a new moon and at the same time we leave the year of rabbit to enter the year of the dragon.
February 5, 2024
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Love the image! LOVE the last two lines! YES!
Thank you… finding that we are this close to Chinese New Year inspired me
I can imagine and believe in that hope. Dragons are so fierce and bold. Love the AI imagery too.
I have understood that dragons are a good thing
Great imagination, Björn, and I love a poem with dragons in it, especially those born ‘from death of moon’!
Chinese new year is always new moon so I thought it worked well.
Cool image and poem to go with it.
I liked what AI did when i prompted for a dragon.
WOW
Dragon year a coming
Nice one Björn
Much♡love
Out with the old, in with the new.☮️
I love all of the analogies, and how the poem flows with those gentle word plays of ‘soil’ and ‘soul’.
This flows, from the wake of rabbits to the cradle of the sickle moon to the hopeful harmonious end.
Very nicely done. Love the dragon picture. Hope is all we have to keep us going!
Hope is such that it will cling to even a fire-breathing dragon in the sky…..
Or hope need something more than feathers to keep aloft
Your art is so cool and yes, always yes to hope! A wonderful way to welcome the new year.
I’ve had enough of fierce and bold. Let’s bring back gentle and compassionate, shall we?
I think today it’s bold to be compassionate…
Yes, you’re right. Compassion is (still) seen as a sign of weakness and politicians of all people refuse to appear weak.
Really enjoyed this with the use of the Chinese new year and all the play on words – very clever 😊
Wonderfully imagined. 🙂
Wonderful, Björn. I love
“dragons
fierce, bold, best
rise in fame
to claim the sky,”
One year we saw the Chinatown Lunar New Year’s parade and Lion Dance, but we will miss it this year.
I remember seeing it in San Fransisco by pure chance once.
I just LOVE how you’ve blended imagery of mythical creatures with themes of hope and resilience! Your poem invokes a sense of wonder!
~David
Dragons are supposed to be good.
What an exciting welcome to the Chinese New Year, and I do hope it’s as exuberant and potent with auspicious harmony and satisfying growth for you! (I’ve missed your posts in my feed lately and have found somehow that WP has been unsubscribing me to others’ blogs as well. Not an auspicious time for WP anyways.)
So wildly imaginative! But that last line, that last line, it resonates.
ah, hope! Oh for a drink from that cup every morning
To imagine can be a powerful action. Yes, put hope alongside it and let’s turn the corner toward peace.
A scary world in which I would not like living there. Nice write, Bjorn. Thank you.
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Hope doesn’t disappoint.
Let the fierce dragons bring on hope.
Wow, this really stirs my imagination Bjorn