Richard D Seal Poet Couplet

Fire In the Blood

Fire in the Blood

How we love your warming glow 
Yet know that we must fear you so
For you would set our hearts ablaze
With your subtle creeping ways

The warming glow the heart desires
Not roaring anger of your fires
Somewhere between we must control
For either side would steal our soul

First the flicker of your flame
Smoulders artery and vein
Finds the fibre to combust
Maybe love, more often lust 

How you make us volatile
When we meet deceptions smile
How your heat does dissipate
As your ashes cool to hate

Without you our blood runs cold
To hot, and angers hard to hold
But we love that place between
Hot passion and comfort serene

If only we could bring confines
Have you never cross those lines
But we love that which excites
And so accept the blood ignites


R D Seal 23 Feb 13

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Line Gauthier February 7, 2021 at 9:42 AM It's a pleasure to find your lovely poem published in the 2020 PS Anthology, Richard ~

Andrea Dietrich March 27, 2020 at 8:55 PM Back to this passionate work of yours from 2013. Wow, how time flies. Sure hope you are keeping safe, Richard.

Eileen Manassian March 24, 2014 at 3:36 AM Stanza BEFORE the last...Second line... TOO...TOO...TOO..and YES, you're WELCOME!

Delysia Hendricks July 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM Your rhyming style appeals, Richard. Well done on this passionate write. Licia :-)

Debbie Duncan July 4, 2013 at 11:49 PM Love it ,,,,Finds the fibre to combust Maybe love, more often lust,,,, happy fourth of July ;} Richard D Seal July 7, 2013 at 5:17 PM Thank you Debbie, Sad to say more often is the case, but without it many would never find love. Missed the fourth but was thinking of you all, I'm currently in England for a while.

Andrea Dietrich April 12, 2013 at 6:38 PM Fire and passion what I am seeing here. We certainly need them both, Richard. Richard D Seal July 7, 2013 at 5:10 PM We'd be boring if we didn't Petal, and lets face it, who wants to be boring

Debbie Duncan April 6, 2013 at 8:39 PM nicely done poem ;}

Eileen Manassian March 27, 2013 at 8:30 AM Reread it! awesome! You've been quiet! All well?

Poet Destroyer A March 21, 2013 at 6:44 PM Wow, Finally I found a poem in which I have not read... shame on me... love the passion within us... i will breathe out the fire that flows, ..a sweet serene thought you give... always~ Linda

Lucilla Carrillo March 14, 2013 at 8:38 PM This is a great poem and the title fits it just fine. I see that you have a way with words. Thanks for sharing this with us. Licilla

Donna Jones February 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM Wow very cool poem....:-)

Skat A February 25, 2013 at 3:55 PM wow, deep 'take care~SKAT

Eileen Manassian February 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM Richard, this is an amazing write! You are really talented! Welcome to Poetry Soup! Hope you will enjoy your experience here. Thank you for your kind comments on my poems! :)

Anne-Lise Andresen February 24, 2013 at 2:46 PM Richard, this is a very good poem, I like it. - Thank you for your visiting on my poem, glad you liked it. - Welcome to the P-Soup! - Hope you'll have great pleasure in sharing your thoughts and poems here with us. - oxox / / Anne-Lise :)