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Flammable Poems - Poems about Flammable


Premium Member Hi, Lee Flammable
Compare and contrast the use of symbolism and imagery in the following two poems by Gerald McDumb Bell The test question piqued my interest at first the poet's name and all After glancing at the poems, though I doused...

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Categories: flammable, fire, poems, poets, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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




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