Best Sparkler Poems

raining sparkler joy

	white hot potassium glow.....

		small hands know no fear

© Jul 01 2010 For Deborah’s “fireworks” contest...

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it's all heating up with just one match like a sparkler that's been lit
it's all now coming to a head and I can see the gist of it
I may have missed a few of your points but what were you expecting
in every mirror, in every...

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It's not like a rush of waves
Like I've read in those books
The innocent idyllic lies
Of fountain wishes and 
Written dreams and 
Patriarchal fantasies
All in illustration
Illusions? Delusions?
All the same

Damsels, dragons, the dammed,
Doesn't feel too far from truth,
Be it written in thousands of pages
before now, in this...

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Whirlwind
Of summer embers
Stirs up
From the un-mowed grass

Swept by the brooms of July 4th fireworks
Booming distant in the furled city

Up high
To the tree tops
The fire flies rise

To the hunger of bats that swoop as spoons
Banging the pan of moon

More than enough for all
The stars
Lightning bugs
Moonbeams and...

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