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Gorgethreat 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 ...
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Categories:
fire, truth, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Who needs a PasswordThere 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..?...
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Categories:
fire, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
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...
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Categories:
fire,
Form: Limerick
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's InfernoSoul 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...
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Categories:
fire, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Forest On FireThe 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...
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Categories:
fire, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing left to giveThe 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...
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Categories:
fire, anger, angst, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
One of Those DaysThis 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...
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Categories:
day, fire,
Form: Rhyme
BE A SOMEBODYWrite! 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....
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Categories:
fire, absence, africa, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Saturday MorningSaturday 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...
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Categories:
fire, nature,
Form: Verse
Heat death from passionLove’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.
...
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Categories:
atheist, death, deep, fire,
Form: Acrostic
THE POWERA 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...
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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”
...
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Categories:
baptism, fire, light, mirror,
Form: Sedoka
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1Fukuda 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...
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Categories:
animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
A Fire RisesSri 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,...
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Categories:
anger, animal, fire, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
CrowsSri 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...
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Categories:
bird, fire, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Fire Poems
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