The Dragon Returns (Working title)

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This is, in a small way, a self poem, but seeing as it has a blatant fantasy element, I wasn't sure if I could rightfully place it in the 'Self Poem' category. Here is the first poem I have written in a very, very long time:
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The Dragon Returns?

Tendrils of words escape as steam
The fires die within
Kur, ancestor, rekindle me!
Dark scathing emptiness  where flaming words once dwelt
A deeper, darker emptiness felt.

Time and time again has wrought
Distraction, unfocused, a moment sought...

Torn apart from poetic peers
What justice is there in all these years
Twisted, turned away, ripped from my beating heart?
But as my ashen words fall to the ground, a plea
Kur, please give me strength to restart

Blood of my lines, serpent ancestor of old
Bring me back into the fold.
Put warmth into my poetry and prose
Give back that pulsing, aching flow
Of words that streak into the night
The current of air that stirs my verse
The graceful air that gives me flight

Embers
Sizzle
I feel a spark within!
Comets, constellations, stirring again!
Blinking, staring, standing amazed...
Then lifting off, heart ablaze...
Souring high above into the diamond-studded sky
Swirling, rising, burning bright
Freedom
verses unfolding below me,
a landscape of inspired words
Exhileration, anquish...emotions compelling me,
molding me
Once more my soul must be heard!

- Dragon In The Sky