Fire Prose Poems

Deep inside a witch’s cave resides an old-school witch.
Crumbs Witch despises the sniveling excuse for Halloween
Humans present on the Thirty-first of October month.
She prefers genuine...

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Warm beacon
in the cold darkness
of mortality;
flame of purification
guiding souls,
defending,
lure of angels;
burning candles
do their duty
and never complain.

...

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Sky: My Response To Your Diagnosis
(Written With Mariangela Canzi)

Initially, we felt abandoned
in blinding sun
but you are strong solid
like a radiant full moon.

Your hands remain warm...

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His red hair is almost as on fire as my cheeks when he kisses me.
The smile he flashes me from across the room, can make...

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He stared at the empty sheet in front of him. Everything had been said. Minstrel’s nightmare and it was only ten in the morning. Writer’s...

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I envy the man who gets to you. I envy the man you allow into your space and who gets to stand face to face...

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The year was ‘72; Morrison had died,
yet I felt little sorrow, for when he was in his prime,
I was a pre-teen junkie for bubble-gum rock
like...

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The Electrician......


on the starship Enterprise
the lights have gone all dim
captain Kirk decided to 
get an electrician in

the electrician's name was Bodger
he was fully qualified
what Captain...

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          In the middle of the war ...
 World War one...
a horse in the middle of...

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your name 
could you even tell me your name
has it always been the same
by any other?
all I sense are thorns

tell me I am mistaken
that you...

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Our helpless girls in the society hide 
Their harassment or abuse sometime
For fear of being ashamed,
But not that brave girl of a remote town, 
She...

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I need to bring more Poetry
  into my Prose…

To spill the blood richer
  flowing out of my veins

To reseason the words 
 ...

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Pray,
If you should tell
All that you have bottled up
Who will you tell?
Who will believe you?
Stories of swollen head, slit lip
Blood, brimstone and bonfires 
Laboriously ignited...

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The Fall

On the anniversary Adam coaxed Eve,
complaining, distracted, to the clearing
for the invented ritual. 
He had been uneasy since,
repeating actions in certain ways as if,
had...

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The Raven and the Coyote
 
The Raven watched the moon. Her interest awoken by the sitting Coyote on the mountain ridge. The Coyote was the...

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ASHES TO ASHES

If all of me sums up a to a pile of smoldered ash... 
Then all of me could fit into a glass; 
If...

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Why is it so hard to be around people? I mean, maybe it's unfair that I should talk of the general public based on my...

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I was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over...

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The photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large...

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I must think fast. My house is on fire and I'll have 16 minutes at the most
to decide what I will save!

For sure, I will...

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