Best Flaming Poems

It was our third-grade field trip to the Dinosaur Exhibit
We would be touring all the lands that dinosaurs inhibit
I remember the teacher saying “keep your hands inside your pockets”
Then she paired me with the meanest kid, his name was Tommy Rockets
“I dare you to take...

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How the ambrosia of a crescent moon 

pours honey on night's gypsy dance,

inflaming spoon of lips ... to blaze lovers' kiss!



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12.19.2016
Moon Soon for Kai Michael Neumann...

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Upon red and russet leaves I gaze

                My soul’s foliage is ablaze.


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flaming leaves
braving autumn winds
ravishing courage



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 8, 2018...

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Glimmering, Shimmering And Flaming Sweet

her eyes, shining pools
her kissing lips luscious red
desert at high noon

Robert J. Lindley, 6-24-2021
haiku...

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With flaming lips and fingertips
casting words of cockeyed quips
behind a face powdered in white
preys a jackyll with teeth that bite

rouge on cheeks, evil guile at play
opened bottles of rich pouilly fume'
fruit of the vine, wine more devine
than one who waits for you, supine

Painted brows and...

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I love you so much 
my co co be de d'amour 
Al, you are my heart 

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From out of the west and the flaming Sun, an entrance he did make.
There’s none like this one, an American Eagle, make no mistake!
He’d served in all the Western wars… and cleaned up many a town.
What he was doing here in ours… Totally, held the...

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comes
wistful,
in a gloss
of  frothy drifts
she cruises near bends...
old river dressed in leaves
peach-gold like October tides.
And ripples splash through a varnished
light, crests twirling on pale twigs,wildbuds; 
flaming river’s last glide …. prelude to snow.



9/25/2015
For Love of October
Andrea Dietrich's Contest
Theme; River/lake in October...

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Sizzling soft finger tips, 

Blaze gently across my body,

Feeling the hiss of her heat,

Steam rises as we entwine our limbs,

Burning lips trace my ear as she whispers of paradise,

Both longing for this heaven to last,

Love sears our hearts as desire leaps from eyes,

While two passions...

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A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her
shape-
an
honest
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep.

Ekprasis after Leighton...

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I hear the crackling beat of 
Castanets and fast strumming guitars 
As autumns blustery storm lifts 
Fallen red, yellow and orange leaves
Twisting and twirling them like a Gypsy girl’s skirt  
As she dances around campfire flames.


Autumn Splendor -contest by- Russell Sivey

© Brenda V Northeast...

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In amongst the burning trees 
Stood a creature still as breeze
In its eyes burned a fire 
Its contagion was its strange attire.

There about its godly perch
I lost all senses as it chirped
its vessel bore the marks of greed
Its beak inscribed a slave's decree

And when it...

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With heart drenched in love
They served our dear land
With talents dripping
From their eyes and speech
They spilled services. 



These flaming dreams
Lost in blade's thirst
Were kits of hope
And great, their deeds.


Why the slay
With daggers?
 For no cause      


Crack brained
 Hoodlums


Why? 

Dedicated to...

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I have a toddler who loves to play
Pretend – imaginary friend, make-believe
She pierces my heart with her adventures
Into the fantasy land of dinosaurs,
Dungeons and dragons, long lost voyages
With pirates and princes – feeling
Invincible, indestructible, unshakable
Like she has the tiger by the tail
And is sure to...

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