flames

flames into flames
      flesh sizzling flesh
           cores consuming cores
pips crinkling into load-shedding 
      emotions into grains of salt
          light across spacetime
             heat melting  
h e a t 
       street strength simmering 
            sweating scalding 
sensation has no 
crystal drops 
     rooibos tea faraway 
          nothing to drink except 
            our own fluid feuding 
hot waves raging roaring
     consummating
         burning consumables
dissipating veins with 
                   our own veins
burnishing flesh...black dust
  past  
        present  
                      f u t u r e  
waves upon waves of
      electric light electronic wires
        our Light liquidates
         iron steel 
from infinity 
rumbling inferno
 
black charcoal transmutes
           into blackberries  
to suck
like nipples nurturing 
eradicating fleeing 
                              fumbles 
fleecing fear fast
red organs rise
            in spirals of voiceless 
words fathoming 
wrath is 
               over
or perhaps to come

 last few steps of
          licking flames orange purple 

all is feedback 
         flammable 
surrounded by raven rain
       red reducing 
                            red oil
blood blessing blood
in a BloodMoon of vanities 
smelling of 
               vanilla and poppies 
waving in war winds
                containing OverSouls
overall is overall 
     forms 
fathering 
     dripping salt 
in an unsung faith 

unknown spaces seen as Beloved
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Williams Avatar
May 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Ghairo, I found your perspective on flames, and their many dimensions, to be both interesting and intriguing. Thanks for sharing this original piece with all of us! Blessings & very best, BW
Williams Avatar
May 26, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Maybe from the fire in your being and the depths of your imagination?! ;) The point is - keep going! You are onto something with your poetry. Blessings & very best, BW
Daniels Avatar
May 26, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Ha, BW, don’t know where I got this !
Hind Avatar
April 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
wowwww in my favs <3
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