Best Firebird Poems

Dance of the Firebird

Rosita, sultry enchantress,
dazzling Andalusian firebird,
erotically she twirls, proud
like a phoenix flashing across the sky.

Flared ruffled skirt swirls,
in hues of red, orange, and...

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Oh he was deep black and so shiny in the sun,
I fell in love the moment I first saw him;   
There was a...

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Like a whiff of pungent smoke
morality hurts.
The inner song dies
in chorus of sharp tongues.

Anger beats the wall
causes no beginning,
no ending.
A naked shadow burns.

The voice on...

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Music 

Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart...

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If you are cathedral of consecration
I'm the voluminous chime summoning souls 

If you are the moonglade mountain peak 
I'm the fedora of snow atop you

If...

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"Skinwalker"


That one’s mind 
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy 
cerebellum with...

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Rednecks make parts in the basement 
They've mastered piston emplacement
They'll bore out a block
To be bigger than stock
Displacement has no replacement

Author's note.  A really...

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"Kaleidoscope" 

They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy 
and far removed from 
such an alien world,
would not possess the...

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There’s a story I heard of a famous lost chord,
although why it was lost and just who did the losing,
true or not, perhaps no one...

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Miss Conceived #1

miss conceived my dream
simply by being herself
firebird from ashes


Miss Conceived #2

miss conceived my dream
simply by being herself
broken egg hatches


Miss Conceived #3

miss conceived my...

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No monarch stays in power forever.
And a lot of a good thing can be too much.
In the rainy season, the crops began to drown.
And the...

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INSPIRED SUNSHINE



Sunshine and serenity, a piece of mind upon,
the wings of an eagle, above the great beyond,
far away from the pull, that tugged me to...

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Sinful Rusted Red Firebird

Sometimes I think back to those years
I wish I had been just a bit older
Nobody notices a fourteen year old boy
Funny though,...

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Alpha Ursa Major, Alert (Ali),
Bardonino (Bart), Barbera,
Cory, Cody, Cowboy
Deschka, Dodger, Drummer Boy,
Eroica, Elektra,
Firebird (Sandy’s daughter), Firecracker, 
Gangster, Gandy Dancer, Gimmick,
Happy Feet, Hellsapoppin, Hurricane Hattie,
Image, Iesha,
Just...

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Out of the darkness and straight into the light
Out of sweet death straight into everlasting life
Out of devastation straight into the destroyers sour demise
Once asleep...

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