China: The Dragon and the Phoenix

You are the mighty dragon

Whose history is lost in the mists of time

Shrouded in mystery and enchantment

And breathing fire

 

Your dragon emperors

Ruled the endless skies and earth

With flaming tongue and snaking tail

And armoured scales

 

The dragon flies again

Awaking from its night of red dreams

Craving the horded treasures of the West

And rising like a golden sun

 

Waxing like a silver moon

Shining the ancient wisdom of the East

Trailing iridescent sparks of change

The phoenix flies again

 

Cocooned in silk

And flowing with ripples of water

Through peaceful rockeries and gardens

Were your phoenix empresses

 

Singing spells

And rising in a blaze of coloured feathers

From the ashes of grey modernity

You are the mystical phoenix

 

 

Copyright 2008

 

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