Dragon Poetry (Volume One)
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September 2025: I’ve mapped out four quadrants for my dragon poetry book’s structure.
I’m fiddling around with two mockup book cover designs, which have a similar vibe and style.
✨ Content Note:
This collection isn’t a conventional fantasy collection.
Instead, it explores emotional depth through dragon archetypes, memory, and mythic intimacy. Readers are invited to engage at their own pace.
🐉 Seeking Early Readers
I’m quietly preparing to release my first dragon poetry collection.
This collection is more mythically modern than traditional fantasy. It’s more of an emotionally layered ritual archive.
If this resonates with you, I’d love to offer you an early glimpse via an ARC (Advance Reader Copy) of the ebook in exchange for a short testimonial or review.
Just your honest impressions, a few lines if you feel moved to share.
If you’re interested, drop me a note here.
Sample some of my dragon poems below.
Quadrants
The collection is tentatively split into four quadrants:
- Teenage Foundation: Early poems from my formative years, some of which did fall into traditional classical fantasy.
- Seasonal & Nature: Pieces inspired by the changing seasons, or the natural world’s power.
- Personal Mythos: Poems that explore identity, memory, and storytelling to make sense of change.
- Romance & Love: Reflections on connection, longing, and composting past encounters that weren’t meant to be.
Teenage Foundation / Old Poems (1999-2006)
The Dragon Set #1 and Set #2 (Haiku) – Jess Chua
Ravenous Appetite – Jess Chua
Red Dragon – Jess Chua
Sleeping Dragon – Jess Chua
New Poems (2025)
- WIP #1: 9-Word Dragon Poems
- WIP #2: Seasonal Dragon Poems (two sets)
- WIP #3: Bone dragon poem (with sketch)
- Dragon Playground (based on some drawings I did on real places)
- A bunch more (in my handwritten notes)
I’ll be posting these new ones online when they’re ready, and compiling them into an eBook and print version.
Notes
- Thanks to Hodder Education for featuring some of my dragon haiku in a UK English textbook (2021).
- Thanks to Massachusetts-based artist, Marin Murakoshi, for sharing my poem “Guardians” when introducing her dragon sculpture (2024). In fact, that motivated me to revive this poetry project that had been on the back burner for a while 💖
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