Poetry
The Year of the Dragon
-2024
I was caught in the rain
during a long walk. It began
with heavy clouds gathering and then
casting a shadow across the wide
and vast landscape. A unique ambiance
of nature I could hear from far and long.
It wasn’t long until I saw some rabbits
retreating to their burrows and I knew
the storm will soon enough come.
A rumbling of thunder
soon resonated from the clouds above.
Then rain began to fall.
Only a few drops at first until the heaven’s
floodgates erupted. My hood over my head
and my eyes on my steps. I soon saw
the ground began to flood.
I was beginning to feel cold,
being soak from my head to my toes.
But the rain did pause,
a ray of sunlight shined
through the softening clouds.
And then within the clouds, did I see it,
like a sea-serpent flying across the sky.
Long, but it was soon gone.
Shivering amongst the drenched landscape
but I knew the spring will soon enough
blossom and sure enough flourish.