Hi, Lee Flammable
Compare and contrast
the use of symbolism and imagery
in the following two poems
by Gerald McDumb Bell
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the poet's name and all
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Categories:
flammable, fire, poems, poets, school,
Form: Rhyme
Flammable Soul
Raging fires roared, yet nothing could hold her back;
she was born in flames...
Sadly, that which helps forge vitality, indubitably, burns.
Embers soon seek refuge in blanketed debris,
praying to fade as apathy attempts to nurture injury.
Mercy, I beg, draw near and peel back ashen veil;
enable compassion, tenderness, and understanding to elicit
tears of gratitude, for they are certain
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Categories:
flammable, fire, humanity, loss, passion,
Form: Free verse
Flammable
There is in you
a schizophrenic flicker,
pucker-lipped,
ready to kiss or to blow itself out,
a hermit flame still with a ration of passion,
but dissuaded by bruised recollection.
Allow me to try, then,
to wring out your reserve of tears,
until your skin is paper,
flammable.
And let me
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Categories:
flammable, devotion, fire, how i
Form: Free verse
The Flammable House
We built a flammable house.
Put smoke detectors in.
Then called the fire department
to save what we had in.
Then cashed in our insurance
to buy another house.
And filled it up again
with things we'll have to dowse.
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Categories:
flammable, analogy, assonance, destiny,
Form: Quatrain
Flammable
I gave my sorrow a name,
A face.
It smothers me 'til I jar awake.
Without the pain:
A moth without her flame,
Lost and out of place.
I lie alone and wait;
They told me it would be ok,
The lie I never forgave.
Flammable but still the same;
The haunted wounds; the violent blame,
The scars that never came.
Everything I resurrected is gone,
Everything I
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Categories:
flammable, depression, hurt, life, lost,
Form: Rhyme