Best Coals Poems
SMOULDERING COALS
The sound of logs lying in flames
is the clicks of horsemen’s guns
drawn back of a bullet prepared;
Within soft light they dance silently
to their own music of togetherness.
Smouldering coals break free and away
to continue their glowing conversation
with the other breathing companions;
Friends were few at first, but as time
went by and hundreds hurled
themselves to the crowd’s silence,
they lived in the warmth of energy
to survive and let survive those
that hid from the night’s snows;
They die to ashes, alone and loved…
©Mickey Van Tonder
The sky danced a glimmer of setted sun blue
Softly through into the night
Like rafters keeping us safe on our path under heaven
Trees wove themselves over us
Breathing light from coals washed the five gathered faces
Flickered in their eyes and over their bodies
In the quiet I saw
In the south like the waves from beneath the sea
One spirit shone with a shimmering breath
And another in the west settled on the rafters there
With a sighing light barely seen and hardly felt
Amid the rafters of the north one other spirit swayed
There too an ethereal visitor echoed in the east
In the quiet I saw
Faces bright, strong and painted with a wash of . . .
Contentment, save two, both fallen of crest
And still under the watchful eyes of Nokomis high in the skies
One rose to smile holding a light before him closely
But woe fell across the other for being there within already
As if unable to escape for eyes unseeing
In the quiet I saw
I watched a struggle between three spirit cousins
Over and all around they fought where he had fallen
So vicious this fight, it cast a shrouding over everything of him
For these two beasts snarled and slashed for dominance
While the third sat quietly as if waiting or perhaps just watching
With great patience for one to fall and it too was evil
In the quiet I saw
The sky shone softly in the ambient light of stars unglimpsed
For Nokomis with her watching eyes held us
As only grandmothers do for having loved and loved her child’s children too
All through the night she held us as we sailed without a sound
Across and over the blue of setted sun somewhere next to here
With the warmth of coals burning nowhere save inside
In the quiet I saw
In the quiet I saw five souls glimmering
In the quiet I saw a war cross one red road
In the quiet I saw the spirits of four ancestors
In the quiet I saw everything, nothing all that I needed
In the darkness of the madodoswun it is dark as pitch
And still, and yet . . .
Before the door whispered to open
I saw in the quiet still
My love burns like hot coals.
My eyes burn like hot coals
melting into the back of my head.
My brain is just liquefying in love
I love you. I don't know why I said
I didn't. I was alone in Australia.
I don't know how I ended up crawling
on the moon after a dog. I never know
how I get places. I'm always traveling,
always in a free-fall. My heart just stops
sometimes and there is the most amazing
woman standing in front of me.
I love you. I don't hold your hand
because I’m afraid I won’t let go. What
are you looking for? I'm looking
for somebody to be the skin that covers
my bone. I want to be wrapped so completely
that I would be infected without you.
My organs would show.
I have always been a stray. I am
a space cadet. I don't have to think
happy thoughts to fly I can just fly.
It's all the helium in my blood,
which is why I need an anchor.
My heart detaches like a balloon.
It will float away into the heavens.
My love will pop. My love will disappear.
My love will be torn and caught by a tree
We will forget and we will walk away
though we were magic and we floated
and we kissed in the heavens
because your kiss started to burn my skin
and my skin was you.
When you don't live right,
You can expect constant stress.
You’ll never grow, thinking you know the answers to the test.
Pointing fingers, blaming others for your self-made mess.
Letting the shadow win causing civil unrest.
In the mind.
You see,
There's two of your kind.
The one that you show,
And the one that you hide
I’ve arrived,
At,
The point where I teach.
Truly,
I don't mean to preach,
But we have to unleash,
That other.
That,
We try to restrain.
Tried to dodge it like the game
But peace was calling my name.
I'm ashamed.
Of,
The things that I’ve done.
Had to study my patterns
And now my life has begun.
And I’m growing.
All of me I’m showing.
Untapped potential?
That's a coal that’s glowing.
“I am a poet”
What words are these
That come trembling from my pen?
I am a poet?
…words I barely comprehend
Do I say these words…
Do I even dare?
Can I with Tennyson, Keats
Or Shakespeare ever compare?
No . . . but a poet speaks words
From their very souls
They draw pictures, produce emotions,
Bring fire from the coals
I am a poet
For these things I have tried to do
I hope that sometime
I’ve brought these things to you
“I am a poet”
Yes, maybe these words
Can actually somehow fit.
So I say them with humility
Yes, “I Am A Poet"
The solid lump of black coal
for the some geological reasons
have got to long travelling
deep into Earth,
and gone through lots of pressing, beating and
others heavy testings,
eventually digged up, polished,
labeled, crowned
and escorted to pallace
as marvelous prince almaz.
That is common saga of success
in mineral world.
HE WHO FANS THE COALS OF HATE
An angry man opens his mouth
And shuts his mind to reason
He who stays slow to anger
Is loved by more each season.
Anger snuffs the lamp of thought
And it's hard to stay serene.
Where anger rules, hatred thrives,
Then the world we love turns mean.
He who fans the coals of hate
Has no reason to complain,
If some hot sparks scorch his face,
His anguish is thus his pain.
Anger is a human madness
Which consumes the heart and mind.
He who rules his spirit with love,
Shall be praised by all mankind.
By Tom Zart
All but faded,are
sensibilities remainders
uncommon to the commonwealth
as the richness of feeling become numbing
In all it's glory,whether
past or present
our soul continues forward in the future
as ourself eventually, to catch and keep up
Navigating the burning coals
our predestined fate
laid down is the souls trail,we follow
cool underfoot,mindful of it's guidance
Our journey,is not of this world
our destination,ordained
from a much higher source
as our awakened souls suffer....
The passion in your breath
Your hands upon my flesh
Your smell
Your fierce gaze
Intertwined souls for love
My unbound heart beats wildly
I fall for your warm essence
Your bite of love, hurts so good
Tingling of ecstasy
A fire the burns violently
The wind that makes it grow
Your love makes me want more
So I dance upon the flame
There was a virile freight train from South Bend
A sexy caboose he dared to befriend --
He said, "You're my dream"
And let out some steam --
Then poured all his hot coals in her south end
Out
of his
brilliance-
lightning bolts of
life.
After Psalm 18:12
The sky danced a glimmer of setted sun blue
Softly through into the night
Like rafters keeping us safe on our path under heaven
Trees wove themselves over us
Breathing light from coals washed the five gathered faces
Flickered in their eyes and over their bodies
In the quiet I saw
In the south like the waves from beneath the sea
One spirit shone with a shimmering breath
And another in the west settled on the rafters there
With a sighing light barely seen and hardly felt
Amid the rafters of the north one other spirit swayed
There too an ethereal visitor echoed in the east
In the quiet I saw
Faces bright, strong and painted with a wash of . . .
Contentment, save two, both fallen of crest
And still under the watchful eyes of Nokomis high in the skies
One rose to smile holding a light before him closely
But woe fell across the other for being there within already
As if unable to escape for eyes unseeing
In the quiet I saw
I watched a struggle between three spirit cousins
Over and all around they fought where he had fallen
So vicious this fight, it cast a shrouding over everything of him
For these two beasts snarled and slashed for dominance
While the third sat quietly as if waiting or perhaps just watching
With great patience for one to fall and it too was evil
In the quiet I saw
The sky shone softly in the ambient light of stars unglimpsed
For Nokomis with her watching eyes held us
As only grandmothers do for having loved and loved her child’s children too
All through the night she held us as we sailed without a sound
Across and over the blue of setted sun somewhere next to here
With the warmth of coals burning nowhere save inside
In the quiet I saw
In the quiet I saw five souls glimmering
In the quiet I saw a war cross one red road
In the quiet I saw the spirits of four ancestors
In the quiet I saw everything, nothing all that I needed
In the darkness of the madodoswun it is dark as pitch
And still, and yet . . .
Before the door whispered to open
I saw in the quiet still
The summer grill has old coals that are gray
with little life to get the food well done.
But when they’re stoked with ashes knocked away
an orange glow of warmth is left in some
enough to give completion still to one,
old coals that burn with passion like the sun.
The few coals worked to make a sizzling flame
as charcoal flavor tickled at the nose.
Soon with a single hot dog one man came
and to this proud occasion old coals rose.
The hot dog was well done or so it goes
for old coals have a value someone knows.
7/26/19
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Every coal I walked over
brought back the pain
I felt from the destructive memories
that have always burnt up in my spirit
the charcol of torture
from heartbreaks I endured
stung my heels like the fires of hell
until I needed guard my heart
from the pains of the coals
I have walked over in the past
to pacify the pain
from the destructive memories
that have always burnt up in my spirit
stone coals
aloned
in
diamond hole
what cave shines
all the time
phrases
caught
letters
aught
learn
me
again
word spin
hook hook hook
looker looked looking
hooked hooked hooked
time
from
me shook
tremble before me
i's says to myself
what bookshelf
lover love me
tree tree
tree
me
i
am
glass
diamond
shattering
stone coals
?