Fire fox merrily skips beneath the night
seeking emeralds in a pool of blue,
bowing deeply to streaming water sprites,
paying gods the reverence they are due.
Green water dragons dance with river prawns
flickering neon in magnetic seams,
Northern lights inspire blushing Southern dawns,
polar nets fishing in the solar streams.
From the heart of sun plasma rises, stares
into the emptiness, electrons dance
with protons, swirling wantonly on flares,
humans watch on, in a mystical trance.
Glowing cosmic beads slip along a string,
magnetic leelines, mythic angel wings.
Marousia 
love dragons of earth, fire, air and water. Lovely and pleasant to read
Thank you so much for visiting 🙂
absolutely lovely imagery marousia…layer upon layer…i would like to see a dragon, for sure…
I love your playfulness with the language, and great imagery throughout. I wish I could see the aurora from here.
So do I 🙂
Marousia, it might be well to be a physicist to wholly embrace your poem, cosmic events in mythological terms, dragons breathing elements constructed from archetypal dreams. I especially like the line:
“polar nets fishing in the solar streams.”
Beautiful work and I am grateful to have seen it.
Bauke Kamstra (@wyrde)
Glorious imagery.
And I do like to think everyone loves dragons.
i thought i read this already…it is still lovely imagery and the dance of it evoking smiles…
You did read it before 🙂 I decided to link it for dVerse
What lovely imagery, the words just dance off my tongue!! Nicely penned.
Really gorgeous, marousia. I was just watching the news about the unusually violent solar storms going on right now–you make it very real and vivid–and somehow, fit into a place I’d like to be. Loving that second stanza, esp, as well as the beads at the end.
The solar storms inspired the poem as well as an image @poemblaze found as something to inspire a poem when I was stuck the other day 🙂
i like this. i wrote an auroa poem, so i know about the fire fox!! 🙂
I wonder if they named the browser after this fire fox 🙂
A sonnet! I always love it when someone is ambitious and tackles something that allows so much freedom within a strict rhythmic and rhyming structure. That your language is so vivid is a plus.
Thank you so much – I like to play with form 🙂 So glad you found the imagery vivid
“Northern lights inspire blushing Southern dawns,” LOVE this line!
love the dance
of light and sprites
in atoms and dance
in the words
upon your page :~)
You do a great of sustaining the magical charm of the events you experienced. Thank for a charming voice.
aurora borealis with all it’s natural magic and more…well captured marousia…what wonderful textures in this
The language here is so rich, lush…it cries to be read aloud. Like the way you got the dragon in there…:) Northern lights are smiling for you tonight!
Gorgeous poem, Marsha …a real delight to read. Your imagery puts me right there watching the magic of the lights. Wonderful 🙂
A sweet, cosmic little rhyme Marousia, one quite dream-like in its execution. I can practically breathe in the light imagery, let the language enrapture me. A delight.
This poem has such a “modern” feel – cosmic and neon in its colors, ancient and heraldic in its images. Quite a feat in such a few lines! Well cone.
Modern English Sonnet? As Gay says, it feels modern in tone, also the meter is not there for traditional sonnet so it works very well as a modern take. Nice piece, enjoyed this
Haha – I can’t resist disrupting iambic meters 🙂