Ice Fire Poems

A cube of ice could have never known -
What it is like to be melted while alone.
In a world frozen, suspended in hate,
Made as cold...

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Fire and ice
Yin and yang
Not an obvious couple

He was frozen, icy, distant, unapproachable
She was friendly, outgoing, loud, funny.
They got along almost too well

Fire and ice
Yin...

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Amidst the ebon of my lonely room 
I feel a covert brush across my face. 
The phantom from my dreams disrupts the gloom, 
which terminates...

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Temperature dropped, slippery ice road.
Many animals partying had slowed.
Dumpster fire started to warm,
All stayed close before the storm.
Steadily came again, it snowed and snowed....

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fire
hot, amorphous
burning, welcoming, consuming
friendly, peaceful, unfriendly, distant
freezing, distancing, staring
crystalline, cold
ice(y)
...

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Crackling flames warm icy cold air. Oak logs spit and pop as they release their heat. Stars gleam cold in the night sky. Glowing embers,...

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The gods are angry
and growing angrier.
Poseidon views his beautiful ocean
despoiled with garbage,
poisoned and polluted
by heedless humans.
He rages to Hephaestus
and Vulcan, gods
of creation, but, when angered,...

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Once the earth was green and alive. But now it is dreary and dying. What is left is deforestation, logging, fossil fuels, industrialisation, more fuming...

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Growling harsh from back they say
Turning souls to ashes she may
I heard the glass split in thousands to tell
The tale of fire, burning hundreds in...

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Breathless panting as I sat waiting my abusive ex husband to return from his big job with Ciro Gargano dynamite gas cans golf balls with...

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I can feel the fire burning inside me and the universe is pining after thee,  the heat is running all over the town and...

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Fire and ice!
The former burns into smoke,
The latter melts into water!
You can stop a fire by water,
But never can you stop water from flowing.
She might...

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Lost and Alone

Lost and alone in this once happy home,
Where love and laughter rang, now a silent tome.
Our candle, an ardent fire that burned so...

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Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In...

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Fire and Ice

Ice Queen formulated veneer
Beneath a fire that all revere
Cold of heart, your reflection
Beneath a well of reflection
Grave, stark, frozen emotion
Beneath a volcano near...

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