Tag: fire
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Fire in the Sky
A mind lost beneath fire in the sky Stands ready to rave against the coming The stars drone and fall to Earth And the moon cannot bear to watch
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Death Throes of a Universe
How heavy the empty space lies over heaving ocean And stars spark together who know nothing of constellations
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Watercolor World
Behind that blue wooden doorTwo share a watercolor worldBreathing together in a moment that cannot lastPushing back a reality that isn’t theirs—Isn’t the truth they painted with their lipsIsn’t what the wanted, but what was necessary.Fighting back flames only to douse them with gasolineWhen they meant to use water.Then, when the world is burning,One leaves…
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Burning Slowly
Burned-black crater, half moon of pain amidst desert sandsSomewhere along the riverbank water turns to fire and burnsNo memory of the beginning, only the mid-time flames eruptingLicking edges already blackened by the memory of a lost past.Days gone, spent in ignorance of the coming hellfirePlaying amidst the cool waters, waiting for the shoreline to empty.Steam-scorched…
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Porch Light
The light is onRain falls heavy from an inkblot skyEyes watch broken glass for secrets reflectedHands caress age-dusted papyrus, seeking an answerBlood falls fresh from a wound opened each day anewEarth drinks deeply of the sanguine dropsBrief fire in the sky sets an aching heart aflameA matchstick extinguished; a forest on fireVoices on the wind…
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Ritual By the Sea
When I came to the cove, I knew it immediately as the place I sought. The wind that had battled my advance across the open sea died as I brought my boat around the outcropping of rock that formed the entrance to the small harbor. I did not need to look at the aged photograph…
Mitchel David Ring 