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Best Playing With Fire Poems

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Playing With Fire
Playing With Fire




Afraid for your miscreant soul
While the Devils licking tongues of flame at your heel
With oh so dirty thoughts

Afraid for the flesh
As you are...

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Categories: playing with fire, devotionprayer, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Playing With Fire
Iran is playing with fire

    If Israel gets hot ~

  Tehran will burn in her fryer...

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Categories: playing with fire, destiny, fire, international, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Playing With Fire
PLAYING WITH FIRE


The Christ Child whom we celebrate
Came to save the world from sin
There never was a love so great
But some won't let Christ in

They...

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Categories: playing with fire, christian, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme
Playing With Fire
Playing with fire

...like night magicians
playing with fire till dawn
needn't tell but crowd
masquerades seeking sources
to revitalize their wands.


For: Poet Destroyer's "Playing With Fire" contest....

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Categories: playing with fire, fire, magic, mystery, people,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member No Reservation
You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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Categories: playing with fire, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Drawing Blood: Join In
There's a pesky mosquito hoverin' around our ears
If he keeps it up he'll soon be splattered in smears
T-Buzz tries to draw our blood
When he gets...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: playing with fire, humorous, insect,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I saw God, but now what poetry contest
"Yes, I affirm, I have seen God
But He appeared and then disappeared
This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed
But until what’s imbibed is assimilated, by...

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Categories: playing with fire, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burned
"Playing With Fire"



The heat of the fireplace
enhances the spark,
we know our love
will not fade in the dark.

We kissed amongst
burning candlelight,
your presence alone
brightened my midnight.

Nothing can...

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Categories: playing with fire, desire, fire, love, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Insomniac Attack
A Hindenburg-Esque explosion
Say goodbye to rationality 
While all the daily trespassers Scream!
"OH THE INSANITY!!!!"
I sleep with sinners
Weep with the saints 
I'm twice the fossil
Three times...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: playing with fire, bible, faith, hilarious,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Cliche'd to Death collaboration with Lin Lane
I'm so tired of hearing that old cliche' ~
"It's water under the bridge," let it go.
Those words are never the right thing to say
when I'm...

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Categories: playing with fire, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between the Pillars of Black and White
"Between the Pillars of Black and White"



You sit alone in your power
between the pillars of 
black and white
holding your book in hand

The words are your...

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Categories: playing with fire, love, magic, romance,
Form: Romanticism
A Huge Dragon
a huge dragon
protects its gold from dwarves - -
a pile of charred bones

For PD’s Playing with Fire contest...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: playing with fire, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member All Out of Heat
Brother, you been stacking it on
stick by stick, building me a fire.
Child by child, taught to build a pyre--
keep us warm, hide from the cold.
	
Stares...

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Categories: playing with fire, abuse, addiction, anger, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes
7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing...

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Categories: playing with fire, adventure, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Quatrain
Such a Cliche
I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise             ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: playing with fire, funny, humor, irony, language,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs