Best Friendly Fire Poems

The campfire reaches
Lighting the night
Rolling the logs
Red embers take flight
Sharing our memories
Eating nuts for snacks
Spitting shells in the fire
The fire spitting them back
We laugh at jokes
And sarcastic remarks
Smoke waters our eyes
We run from the sparks
The conversation lags
As the evening tires
We all kick back
Put more wood...

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“Friendly Fire” 

I was writing 
when death came
like the sound of 
clouds cracking open 
the sound like all 4 
horses, hooves kicking
in windows, stenographically
speaking like a scream, 
my world shattered, the sound
like wanton sirens piercing
the unassuming quiet,
my hands were on fire then, 
the keys melting...

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I took my arm i wore my shield
Got Sown in the unknown field
In the name of peace we stand
Playing a role we do not understand
Anthems of the flock ringing in my ears
They all do not know but have been told
Noise of agony filled my hearing
Scenes...

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Fearless fire burns outside the friendly line 
Your one love now must take its final bow 
Torching the truth the lie now our headline, 
not stopping for love not even a vow
It runs through a marriage a burning plough 

No skin nor sex can change...

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A contradiction in terms
A fire far from friendly
It burns, maims or kills soldiers
Who came up with that?


Date written and posted: 10/08/2018...

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Your eyes were roaming over my ruined life
And I could feel the shame rising up
A hurricane in my chest, hot winds ripping through my body
I could have collapsed under the pressure of your silence
Time. Tick. Tick. Tick.
My mouth spewing forth useless words
Fill the empty space...

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Loving you is not easy.
It is war, tinted in quick bursts of fire.
Our hands filled with grit, our breath steadfast in anticipation.
Camouflaged emotions dressed in fear.
The destruction in your voice rings clear.
There is nowhere to hide.
Loving you is not easy.
We find tragedy after tragedy.
Our hearts muddied...

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  far from feel'n familiar 

             Frozen 
             
           ...

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there had been many battles raging 
mostly within and with himself
alter Egos diffusing who was friend or foe
to the point of dissolution of Self
like a soul grinder on an impossible mission

mindful and yet full of fear he had discounted
his nuclear warfare as mere skirmishes
fully aware...

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