Fire and Shadow of the Eternal Flame
Fire and Shadow of the Eternal Flame
(c) 2025 by the Entangled Pair
You make longing feel like poems
all soaked in sweat and truth
they flow out unashamedly
sometimes unkempt, uncouth
and as they flow somehow they show
the yearnings of our youth
I come to you as fire and shadow
filling you with pleasured pain
pulsing you to overflowing
striving to relieve the
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Categories:
flame up, desire, longing, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
You are a flame in the dark, ugly and beautiful
You are a flame in the dark, ugly and beautiful,
A labyrinth of contradictions, a dance in dissonance.
You are a rose with thorns, so beautiful yet painful,
A girl with angel eyes, innocent and yet perverse.
You are a mystery, an enigma shrouded in mist,
A puzzle with thousands of pieces, a challenge slipping from my lips.
You are a
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Categories:
flame up, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Fomes and Flame
I crave moments
when my terrified side
is extinguished by longing—
when I willingly share
fervent fires with a
mouth made of kindling…
equally languishing lips
that sear ache upon ache—
until even fear tastes
like love worth keeping.
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Categories:
flame up, betrayal, dark, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Wings of the Withered Flame - inspired by Tears of the Dragon
Written: August 14, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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The wind remembers what I tried to forget—
a voice in the fire, a name in the rain.
I stood on the edge of the world I had built,
watching it crumble,
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Categories:
flame up, analogy, betrayal, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Dweller of Our Heart
Within the dark, before the day,
A golden spark will find its way;
Not borrowed light, nor fleeting flame,
But one with which the sun’s the same.
It warms the marrow, stirs the soul,
It makes the broken pieces whole;
Through weary hours, through every start,
It dwells within our beating heart.
When shadows press, it will not fade,
It stands where deepest love
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Categories:
flame up, endurance, gothic, heart, light,
Form: Free verse
Keeper of the Flame
A single light, a fragile spark
Guides the lost through endless dark.
The Keeper guards it, steadfast, still
A beacon strong, see.. a force of will.
It cannot falter, cannot fade
Its warmth eternal, softly laid.
The Keeper’s task, to hold it high
Until the stars themselves must die.
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Categories:
flame up, courage, encouraging, fire, hero,
Form: Free verse
When Her Soul Touched My Flame
She came to me not in footsteps,
but in frequencies—
a humming echo wrapped in incense,
like moonlight clothed in ancient perfume.
Her name was Safaa,
a syllable the stars once chanted
when the Nile still remembered its gods
and pyramids blinked through the veil of galaxies.
We did not meet.
We remembered.
We folded into each other like twin scrolls
written by fate in invisible
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Categories:
flame up, dark, engagement, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Man Who Carried the Flame
(A Poetic Prophecy)
He walked not with crowds, but with silence.
A hush clung to his steps like a prayer.
The wine of the world he did not drink—
He stored his storms in chalices of fire.
The daughters of dust followed him not for touch,
But for something they could not name—
The way the stars bowed when he passed,
The way
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Categories:
flame up, absence, adventure, courage, happy,
Form: Free verse
If Vulcan Wakes
If Vulcan Wakes (c) 2025 by The Entangled Pair
If Vulcan fully wakes again and shakes his fiery dreads
unleashing hell in all it's fury on our fearful heads
I tell you once again my friends in words of common rhyme
we perish not in watery graves but in the fires this time
can't see the forest for the trees
can't
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Categories:
flame up, dance, devotion, fantasy, fire,
Form: Rhyme
THE SPARK AND THE FLAME
The Spark and the Flame
It’s easy to rise when the fire is new,
To chase bold dreams the moment they brew.
But sparks burn quick, and passion may tire,
Without the fuel of steady fire.
Discipline walks where impulse fades,
Through winding roads and shadowed shades.
Consistency, the thread unseen,
That stitches the path where goals are led,
And makes dream come true
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Categories:
flame up, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Will-o’-the-wisp Reignites the Flame
The Will-o’-the-Wisp never stays still.
It ignites a dare,
tempting the watchers to chase its glow.
Its tongues of flame don’t just flicker—
they sear deep into the minds of those,
who dare to gaze and stare.
It erupts with flickering tongues of fire,
leaping ahead like runaway sparks,
igniting the brittle leaves of thought.
Spreading fast, wild, and relentless—
through piles
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Categories:
flame up, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
Pyromaniac
Tonight you'll rise
from the ash of a story
no one claims
Strike a light, toss the match,
face awash, watch it catch
There's glory in the flames!
You'll learn not to take loss too hard
Just turn and cross back through the yard
Let the fire burn whatever remains...
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Categories:
flame up, fire, longing, romantic love,
Form: Other
Echoes of Eclipse Flame
Written: July 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: X F Lacasse
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From the anvil of solar eclipse flame ~
Sunsmith struck with a mallet lit by light
Blows hump the sky ablaze by molten might—
a yellow nepenthe for summer's shame!
Sapphire
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Categories:
flame up, analogy, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Flame in the Quiet Rise
E-vening
D-awns
N-ew
A-spiration
V-iewed
I-n
L-ight,
L-etting
A-ltruistic
N-obility
U-se
E-ach
V-ision's
A-wakening
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Edna P. Villanueva)
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Categories:
flame up, birthday,
Form: Other
Reigniting the flame
Here she comes with a smile,
Flaunting her beauty flashing in her smiles,
She may come only once a while to meet me,
Thats enough to reignite the flame of love in me.
The love blossomed just in few meets,
The self in hearts turned into feeling of us,
The flame of love got lighted
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Categories:
flame up, love,
Form: Free verse
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