Rhyme Fire Poems

Kill the spark
the fire dies
Mute one voice
and Poets cry

Kill the larva
kill the host
Burn your bridges
— post by post

(Dreamsleep: July, 2025) 
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I feel it all.. the highs, the lows..
The silent grief that never shows.
I smile like I’ve not seen the fire..
But flames still flicker beneath the...

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As I find myself eating some of Deborah’s fresh bakes chocolate chip cookies….
(please, don’t ask me the amount)
because warm chocolate chip cookies is one snack...

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whatever is transient
we let go
attachments, fears, desires
rooted in ego

thoughts are dualistic 
spirals of illusion
they but birth dream forms 
cause of delusion

organic form is dust
God dwells...

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Civilisation's got me down
taking me to the tail of my tether
driving me round the bend
I'm not going to stick it out
to see where it will...

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**I.**  
Does my radiance scorch your comfort?  
Does my presence rattle your idols?  
You call me delusional—  
Yet tremble when I...

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1393

Yvain, the son of the Earl of Foix, did painfully expire
At a Royal Masquerade Ball as his costume caught fire
And a most tragic yet quite...

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      In the center a stone
         made into a home

  ...

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Renee Vivien English Translation

Words to My Love
by Renée Vivien
translation by Michael R. Burch

This is Vivien’s “coming out” poem, although the term wasn’t coined until many...

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I made it to
the edge of thought
with consciousness
ablaze
I escaped the fire
but not the heat
all memory
a haze
I just got out
when fate attacked
from inside
burns the past
To leave...

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You were there when I needed you the most, 
just for you to disappear into the night like a vengeful ghost. 
The texts you sent...

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If, as the saying goes,
'There's no smoke without fire,'
is it smarter to ignite a spark
(illumination causation)
than bedamn the dark,
and thereby induce a funeral pyre,
or, better...

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Searching the smoking ruins
of Notre-Dame cathedral,
on the Paris Île de la Cité,
one of the finest examples medieval
of French Gothic architecture,
with flying buttresses, a rib vault,
immense...

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Mystic dancer in the firelight,
spinning, swirling as her soul takes flight,
chasing spirits on an astral plane
and catching them to call by name.

Perspiration beads on her...

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Lake Of Fire 
The Earth is unbound. 
Sin to cancer. 
The dead are judged accordingly. 
If your name is not written in the book of...

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