Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Poem #15-2012 Fire Danger Today

Hearth visitors
drown in the miracle
of my fire

It lures them close
before
turning them to instant ash

Neither fire nor victim
aware of the danger
until survival
is out of the question



Contributed to dVersePoets.com
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8 comments:

  1. And the fire either never learns, or is rekindled with a clean slate every day

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  2. kinda scary you know...and def earthy as we see the same trickery in nature often....

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  3. oh don't we wish. And sometimes we even do. Sweet piece.

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  4. Interesting, hearth visitors....... I didn't really catch the beat of this until I read your connection to Kerouac. Now I'd say masterful....! He was certainly one to invoke thought....

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  5. Thanks all for the comments. John, if you found the beat because of Kerouac, I really am flattered.

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  6. lured in and burned up, neither knowing it was coming....very good.

    mark

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  7. What are you saying, that you're hot stuff? (LOL!)

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