What has become of dragons?
Do they leave trails of scales
and seaweed on every rock and shore?
Do dragons roar
in echoes of thunderstorms,
scorch burling clouds
with lightning from their tails?
Do dragons lurk in lava and ore
deep within the earth’s core?
What are they forging?
Kim M. Russell, 3rd June 2019
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: Here there be {poem} dragons
This Monday, De has given us the word – it’s dragon! I’ve revived a poem I originally posted on 18th April 2018 and rewritten it as a quadrille.
writing in north norfolk 
I do believe that kind of dragons still walk the earth… This reminds me of “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro,.. a dragon exists because it’s breath makes us forget.
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Have you read the children’s book How to Train Your Dragon?
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I don’t really remember, but I don’t think so.
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Give this, Kim. I felt every thunder and roar.
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Thanks De! 🙂
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I like your wonderings, Kim, especially those weather dragons. Great pictures created.
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Thank you, Sarah.
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I like this Kim. We shared some of the same images.
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Thank you, Jane, I’ll be over to read in a bit.
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🙂
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Makes a trim quadrille; like the serpentine weather reports. I loved the lines /scorch burling clouds with lightning from their tails/.
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Thank Glenn. That’s one of the reasons I love thunderstorms. 🙂
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I really like this Kim. I have a friend who is a blacksmith and the name of his company is Dragon Forge Ironworks.
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What a great name for a blacksmith’s company, Linda!
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Yes, it is!
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I like this Kim. I think they’re forging trouble!
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I was hoping they might forge an alliance to save the world. 🙂
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Dragons are busy creatures, always transforming things. Wonderful elemental quadrille, Kim.
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Thanks Jade!
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You are welcome.
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Really interesting! Nice work, Kim! I love the elemental swirl
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Thank you, Nathan.
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Formidable creatures- are dragons. I’m glad they’re mythical.
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I’d definitely give a home to a little one. 🙂
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🙂
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You have such a magic way with words! I love this one.
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Thanks Bev!
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Luv your dragon questions , Nice poem Kim
much love…
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Thank you, Gillena!
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What has become of dragons? I believe there are a few still lingering around where we least expect to find one. They could be rumbling through the clouds.
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We seem to have dragons all over Norfolk, in all sorts of shapes and forms!
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Oh, I love a thunder dragon and a rewrite. This is a fun prompt and I really enjoyed your inquisitive approach.
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Thank you, Anna!
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I came from Björn’s poem to yours, and I see how that plays into this – dragons forging dreams that urge us to face our challenges.
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🙂
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Yes, I hear the dragons roar in thunderstorms!
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😊
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“What are they forging?” — Nice!
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fairies, dragons… One of my daughters loves dragons and my son (11 years old) still loves dragons – books, draws them, etc. The “popular” girls in 5th grade make fun of him because he likes dragons (you can only imagine how I want to breathe fire upon them!) I like the questions in this poem… in search of dragons…
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If dragons didn’t exist we wouldn’t have a word for them!
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Nicely done–where indeed have they gone?
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🙂
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