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Infernos Poems - Poems about Infernos

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: infernos, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberhiku - smoldering

...infernos raging 
thunder splits smoldering skies ~
monsoons spill forthwith
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Categories: infernos, beautiful, conflict, nature, poetry,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberPassions Unchained

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As the brilliance of the setting sun
creates ripples in the sea.
Your bikini kisses pure white sand,
setting naked beauty free. 

Soft curvaceous flesh so smooth it glides
disappears beneath ...
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Categories: infernos, beautiful, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShadows of the Valley

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Run faster—looking back will be your downfall.
The screeching of the infected gains intensity.
Drag the razor wire barricade across blistering concrete—
scraping rusted metal, shards splinte...
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Categories: infernos, art, dark, gothic, myth,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membertarnished

... tarnished m e m e n to s
        become tumbleweeds 
                                                 d
                                                    r
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Categories: infernos, dark, deep, fire, imagery,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberMannequin of Metaphors

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When the
   malevolent moon
drapes
   black current vines
around my neck, 
etching
    the blood of betrayals
in my white-whirling wings ~ 
I cease to scream
  in sanguine sighs 
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Categories: infernos, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNight awakens in the chaos of infernos imploding beneath the darkened sky

...Night awakens in the chaos of infernos imploding beneath the darkened sky,
It stretches, casting its tangled locks over the deep silences,
Shedding the seraphic blankets of the winter moon, golden ...
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Categories: infernos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Happiest of Times

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     It is the happiest of times
        It is the saddest too
     It all depends on your chimes
        If they’re sunny or blue

     Tying oneself to all that’s external
        may lead ...
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Categories: infernos, happy, sad, smile,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberWild Is the Night

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Wild Is the Night

Night wakes
In atonality of imploding infernos
Stretches,
Toss...
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Categories: infernos, angst, night, storm, wind,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBarren Page

...this barren page, screaming, crying
	yelling through the winds,
		inviting me to begin again,
always, to just begin
	again and again, tempting my pen
tempting me to just begin, begin
	A G A I N...
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Categories: infernos, light, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

DANTE TRANSLATIONS

...DANTE TRANSLATIONS

Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

In Beatrice I beheld the outer boundaries of blessedness.—Dante, loose tr...
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Categories: infernos, christian, desire, god, heaven,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberThe Dance Of Anger

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Unkept promises are like brutal blows, 
ruthless ripping words are the harsh slashes,
they strike unaware where latent hope grows,
and cleave through ruptured heart as it crashes.

The mind ...
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Categories: infernos, analogy, anger,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberUnder leaden skies where shadows gather

...Under leaden skies where shadows gather,
We look back at the great tragedy of the ages,
Since the Enlightenment, we admire the shattered dreams,
Where optimists, as architects of false hopes,
Hav...
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Categories: infernos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI am

...I am…

Washing a stormy night clean, its promise
this empty grave,
where sunshine suddenly erases the shadows,
who sigh like dejected, broken tears,
surfacing in the dewdrops, 
lifting the dar...
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Categories: infernos, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the g'night of space

...There's a solar wind that's contained; in the night of space
Shadows find nowhere to show; the inner light of space

Impossible to touch, it leaves us; without a trace
Frozen rings of breathing s...
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Categories: infernos, deep, solitude, space,
Form: Ghazal

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