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Flameless Poems - Poems about Flameless

Premium Memberi've just played santa for the first time

...i'm talking world war three blues
and how the baubles resemble the planet neptune
one kid has trashed the grotto
flameless LED tea light candles on the mantlepiece  

another exclaims, 'can we s...
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Categories: flameless, adventure, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Ember's Light Amid the Frost

...Forget those words, cold, distant calls
Penned to lead you o’er the falls
Toward blank white emptiness below

Hush now, your gurgled snarl
vile drool of fettered rage
Your words have not yet co...
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Categories: flameless, wisdom, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Walking With Him

...Autumn, and the smolder
of inert sap fills every nose,
ignites flameless fires.

He buries his nose
in a pile of russet and gold-flecked leaf,
a squirrel scolds him from a high branch
but he’s...
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Categories: flameless, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVictory's Charade

...Alas, there lingers deep within
a war that neither side can win
while the vanquished ran and hid
those triumphant forgot they did

and history, that lying vamp
would seat an angel with a tramp
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Categories: flameless, age, conflict, memory, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBeware the Fireworks of Joy

...Beware the Fireworks of Joy

It’s 9:30am
It’s Saturday
The winds of time have changed
Smoke is obscuring the future
Of a nation of dreamers.
Nightfall is lost.
In a darkness of righteous rhet...
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Categories: flameless, metaphor, political, weather, wind,
Form: Free verse



The Hopelessness of Flameless Candles

...Give me something I can feel
So that I know Love is real…

Living in my world of numbness
  and night,
Sometimes i wonder if I'll ever see 
  the light.

Wish as I may 
Wish as I might
I ca...
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Categories: flameless, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Homeless Cat

...On my front deck, he comes at night.

It kills me to watch homeless, shivering cats.

What do they eat, whence do  they drink?

When rough winds blow, where do they sleep?

My cat looks at hi...
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Categories: flameless, beauty, cat, imagery, weather,
Form: Free verse

Walking With Him

...He smells wood smoke in the air.
It is autumn, and the smolder
of inert sap fills every nose,
ignites flameless fires in shrinking roots.

Now he buries that nose
in a pile of russet and gold-f...
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Categories: flameless, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Cold Fire

...Luscious sweet  smells blanket my soul
A carpet of daffodils swaying one and all
Melodious sound croons  Kindle my core
Soothing  an undefined long-lasting sore
Crimson  flavors  furnish my hunge...
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Categories: flameless, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRest Ever

...She was the white horse of the Himalayas
Purity Smolder of flameless skies

Then, chains of conquest - 
A half-century of human Inhibition
The Neophyte's arrogance of consumption
Would Flounder...
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Categories: flameless, abuse, mountains, pollution, sky,
Form: Free verse

Tomorrow

...Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Tomorrow
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  July/2018

Tomorrow’s dawn is flameless 
It’s a silhouette, camouflaged 
by an oasis of stars in the
Universe 

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Categories: flameless, allusion, birth, god,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberThe Eyes Have It

...To kiss your eyes with mine, my eyelids lift
And find emotions rise, in flickering trace
Warm and flameless fires smolder with their gift
To capture heartfelt needs from their embrace
We will sig...
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Categories: flameless, beautiful, romance,
Form: Sonnet

At the Brink of the Earth

...This life is a silhouette of dancing flames,
A jelly of a million billion shapes, a fathomless illusion, a plotless sequel.
There is more to see for the blind and less to say for the wise.
This li...
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Categories: flameless, creation, dedication, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Toxic State

...Toxic State

Endless endeavors embryonic embrace
Finite forever’s in a platonic place
Silently searching with afflicted affections
Of love’s misguided daunted deflections

You can not penetrat...
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Categories: flameless, deep, loneliness, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Tell Myself I Do It For the Birds - For Contest

...I tell myself I do it for the birds.

They gather together
around flameless fires
feeding on warmth’s memory,
chattering amid the blowing leaves,
feathers puffed against the cold.

Their beau...
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Categories: flameless, allegory, poverty, winter,
Form: Free verse

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