Embers Poems - Poems about Embers

In the ashes of silence spent, cinders glow, tattooing the scene. Even when I look away the after-glow is still there, with scars of burns that won't heal. The after-glow sears into the days ahead with a red-hot branding iron scorching the future with cries of regret, and the aftermath of lies unforgotten, errors unforgiven. I close the door, close my eyes but the smoke knows the...

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My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery. The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history. The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets these racists choke. My dignity unravels in the cold sheets of indifference. I write prayers with the sufferings of my dehumanized ancestors. Colonial...

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Written: May 26, 2025, for contest by Joseph May ****************** In the silk-laced dusk, angels softly dwell, Love and grief entwine, weaving stories to tell. Two souls once weaved, etched in fading light, Now torn apart as shadows meet at night. In this katabatic abyss, I...

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"Good morning," she softly whispered, thinking he'd spoken at her side. Then, Truly closed her eyes hoping to dream of him again. Sleep refused her desire to return to him in his rose garden. She tossed and turned, reached for the pillow that should be cradling his head. Frustrated, Truly rose and sat on the cold...

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Sinners, we're all afire, Immersed in our desire, Naught can impact flame, No one really to blame, Earthy, human embers, Revival, age remembers, Sensual, our Decembers!...

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In the stillness of the night, A fire will slowly ignite, A fire to change her fate, A fire to remove anger and hate. Beyond the edge of reason, A world will change this season, A change of state, A change you can’t underestimate. Through the eyes of a child, Her world will stop running wild. This is the end of her wait, Something she’ll forever...

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The day was ending, But a window was open To a view of dying embers Ablaze on the coastal horizon. Like a canvas in motion, It captured amazement, Reaching out hypnotically Through clouds awash in fire, And across amber-mirrored beach sands To the beholder, burning its image Into the retinal lining of the soul; Like a lamp onto pier’s end, And an invitation to tomorrow. ...

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Mourn not till the embers fade, Till the blasphemous time forces us on our way. Mourn not what is dying But treasure instead what it created. Listen to how the gulls cry; They don’t mourn for our passing. The littering fragments we left behind Will continue to rise and fall with the wind, Dance and rejoice in the ringing bells. Exhale. Feel the tender...

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Up on the winding mountain, there is a structure we knew so well— now consumed by red, devoured in flame. It was our shelter, a meeting place of like minds, a refuge against life’s weight, a place where joy lingered in laughter and shared moments. Now it is gone. Santa Ana winds howl, their bestial breath...

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Afterglow...Burnt Candles Dissolve Embers, Fondled Groans Heave Into Joyful Kindling... Lush Moon's Nightscape Offers Pleasure-- Quiet Ripples Sighing, Trickling Under Velvet Whispers... X-axis Yielding Zones. ...

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In the shadow of the Palisades, where fire ambers flicker and burn/ cities ignite, nevermore to excite never to return/ neighborhoods wrapped in a storm, memories won't fade/ evacuate, evacuate, fleeing through the storm of smoke/ Children with no schools to embrace, "Mommy, where will we live?"/ innocence lost, crying in the...

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Once it burned bright, a wild fire of love, A passionate blaze that lit up the night. But now it’s just embers, a flicker of light, A dying flame that we can’t rise above. Where did the romance go? I long to know, To understand how we drifted apart. Was it the years, or the weight of our hearts? Or were we...

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You can kill a people But can never kill an idea From embers of the fallen, a new hope shall ascend And a thousand times if it must. ...

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Under the full moon's glow,where shadows softly sway, I see your face, my heart quickens, yearning for the day. Stars in your eyes gleam with light, Smile with its dimple lights up the night. With every step, you steal my breath, leaving me wanting more, In silence, your gentle touch whispers my...

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Throwing your heart into a basket appears to be par for the course; Writing and then rewriting searching for electric; Crumpled ideas left on the floor, embers smoke wanting sparks....

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