Best Flameless Poems

Like endless words
emotionally meant
Like tideless memories
erratically spent
Like dreams that weave
a few days content
Like flameless smoke
love lies dormant...

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Invitations to the Gala
issued by a grave impala
were highly sought out missives 
by the bold and the submissive 
Those omitted uttered curses
shook angry fists or...

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To kiss your eyes with mine, my eyelids lift
And find emotions rise, in flickering trace
Warm and flameless fires smolder with their gift
To capture heartfelt needs...

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The Scent of Water


The air is dry, bone-dust dry,
carrying the odor of despair,
shimmering in its pseudo sky
dreams of what was never there.

Eyes, dry-crusted, cannot discern,
delusion...

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Alas, there lingers deep within
a war that neither side can win
while the vanquished ran and hid
those triumphant forgot they did

and history, that lying vamp
would seat...

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Beware the Fireworks of Joy

It’s 9:30am
It’s Saturday
The winds of time have changed
Smoke is obscuring the future
Of a nation of dreamers.
Nightfall is lost.
In a darkness of...

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I tell myself I do it for the birds.

They gather together
around flameless fires
feeding on warmth’s memory,
chattering amid the blowing leaves,
feathers puffed against the cold.

Their beauty...

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Drifting away...
Ageless
Careless
Weightless
Worriless 

Hopeful
Colorful
Playful
Dreamful 
Just drifting away...

No secrets
No fears
No tears
No pain
Drifting away...

Just a seed
In the air
In rainbows
Flying with hummingbirds
To our secret place

No human knows
Kites are lonely...

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It rages from within itself,
feeding on its own inner fire,
ablaze with the vilest of ire.

With spiteful, toxic vengeance
'neath the gloss of civility,
it smolders silently smokeless.

With...

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Kiss the sun, fly with the wind, 
to live is a fire raging within.
Be not some featherless bird
or to a fallen angel akin.
For all creation...

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On my front deck, he comes at night.

It kills me to watch homeless, shivering cats.

What do they eat, whence do  they drink?

When rough winds blow,...

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Toxic State

Endless endeavors embryonic embrace
Finite forever’s in a platonic place
Silently searching with afflicted affections
Of love’s misguided daunted deflections

You can not penetrate this superman soul
Love can...

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This life is a silhouette of dancing flames,
A jelly of a million billion shapes, a fathomless illusion, a plotless sequel.
There is more to see for...

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For a patch of happiness 
you rushed into the arms
of clouds. Only to fall back with tears.
The glazing authority of moon
hangs on the poverty of...

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Will you be my knight
Riding with your sword raised high
Will you be the key
To unlock the chains that bound
Will you be the moon
In the dark...

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