Icy Hearth

An ice cold firework
Discharges in my heart
Detonating out shards of ice
To pierce the mind
Pricking my fingers 
As the heat
Drains from me and
Like a welcoming fireplace
Warms the souls of the
Dead hearts I've dug up
From the graves of fireflies
That never saw it
Past summer
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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June 15, 2016 at 11:26 PM
Kay, nicely penned. Enjoyed reading your thoughts and words today. **SKAT**
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May 12, 2015 at 8:08 PM
Enjoyed this Kay. Nice write!
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May 11, 2015 at 9:13 AM
i think yo've falling love brother! oh,, I am Indonesian, I love poem.. here my blog poem. http://www.puisiprotes.ga/ ... may you visit it? thank you before!
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