Isabeau Vollhardt

Songs For the Water Dragon / Poems For Plants & Planets / and Others Isabeau Vollhardt

This volume of poetry contains three different chapters. Songs for the Water Dragon are a diary of experiences following Shui Long (Water Dragon) qi gong practice, with each poem referencing the place and date of the practice. Shui Long is a Mongolian/Buryat form of qi gong with shamanic roots, requiring physical communion with water, fire (or sun), and wind. The second chapter: Poems for Plants and Planets were poems written during the same time, as Shui Long practice often opens up a practitioner's creativity and perception of the natural world. The third chapter, "Others" contains poems about love, relationship, changes in the natural world, and one poem of much more recent composition that is the result of personal insight into past trauma.