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Fire Poems | Examples of Fire Poetry

Fire Poems - Examples of all types of fire poetry to share and read. This list of fire poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of fire poetry. This list of works about fire is an excellent resource for examples on how to write fire poems.
Gorge
threat of winter, violent sea no more shall mischief mark will hold my scar under its moon and trace its haunted arc wander night in deepest sleep breathe into her mist blackest heart on inside bumps the reckless knotted fist ...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, truth, voice,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Who needs a Password
There seems Much use Of "This" as a catchall For the appearances Of nothing..or Not This Appearing as This... So This seems to Have a story behind It..which may be A password to the Hidden catchall.. Yet..who needs a Password..?...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Doctor Strange Glove
Just last night I awoke from a dream Sat up in bed and started to scream Like a funeral pyre It set my hole on fire I sure could use some hemorrhoid cream But I went to the doctor instead...Read the rest...
Categories: fire,
Form: Limerick
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's Inferno
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb promises eternal martyrdom awaiting voluntary die hard protester, where countless vestal virgins provide blissfulness (think Playboy mansion on steroids) synonymous with...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forest On Fire
The dense smoke billowing throughout the morning air Flames jumping from tree top to tree top putting us in deep dispair With each step our breathing becomes more laboured The intense heat that envelopes us is surely not...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Nothing left to give
The world is burning And there is nothing that I can do to make it stop I have no money So I share posts in hopes of someone else having money I have such little hope So I share posts...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, anger, angst, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One of Those Days
This day didn't go as I planned In fact it went wrong from the go While tilling my land with shovel in hand I chopped off the tip of my toe And to make matters even worse I don't...Read the rest...
Categories: day, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member BE A SOMEBODY
Write! Anything. Be a dream writer Write poeticly. Be about a spree! Take Vacation from mundane. Be Astounding! Astonish YOURSELF! HAVE WORD WEALTH! I am LONELY COME AND SEE. Visit me! Be just Like me! This me....Read the rest...
Categories: fire, absence, africa, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Saturday Morning
Saturday morning Fires keep burning All around me Like winds set free Consuming the browns of the hills Like wild blade heading for kills Giving light to the chocolate soil That for long time left...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, nature,
Form: Verse
Heat death from passion
Love’s infinite cliches glue me to this earth. In the end, we are, yet, nothing but dirt. For what it’s worth, Entropic defiance is life’s tender hurt. ...Read the rest...
Categories: atheist, death, deep, fire,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member THE POWER
A leaf A tree A flower All of nature A stream flowing Rain heavenly pouring A woman A man PROVOCATIVE A child crying All in nature A sunshower Notice the rain A RAINBOW full of sun! A day full of rainbows! The POWER! Notice a furious FIRE Hear...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, color, fire,
Form: Free verse
Baptism and reflection
“An eternal man Will bathe you in flames and light To cleanse your own flesh of sin” “Do not reflect flesh Seek to mix water and flames To reflect eternal light” ...Read the rest...
Categories: baptism, fire, light, mirror,
Form: Sedoka
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1
Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo. Because morning glories held my well-bucket hostage I went begging for water! —Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
A Fire Rises
Sri Lal A Fire Rises A fire rises in the pit of the gut— and I forget myself. At the grey langur’s door, I give up. I cut my hair, dance bare in the Bhadra rain. Who am I? I ask myself,...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, animal, fire, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Crows
Sri Lal Crows i. I come from nowhere, and I have nowhere to go, I tell the crow perched on a low neem branch beyond the Periyar River. He agrees. He and I are free. We speak the same language. You know who I...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, fire, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

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