Salamander Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Natures Calling	M. L. Kiser	Haibun	Haibun	salamander, animal, appreciation, dream, image,
	Variations On A Theme	matthew harris	Bio	Bio	salamander, age, birthday, depression, fantasy,
	Abandon	Eve Roper	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, imagery, nature,
	A Chinese Giant Salamander	PAT Adams	Quatrain	Quatrain	salamander, animal, appreciation, humor,
	Dream Series: My Vegetable Garden	Jessica Amanda Salmonson	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	salamander, animal, dog, dream, food,
	the leprechaun within	matthew harris	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, 11th grade, 12th grade,
	SOULS LIKEN GRAINS OF SAND	James Edward Lee Sr.	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, celebration,
	Standing Tall	James Edward Lee Sr.	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, analogy, celebration,
	Wilding Fawn	Dale Gregory Cozart	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, autumn, color, metaphor, seasons,
	Salamander Dance Do Your Holy Dance	James Edward Lee Sr.	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, analogy, animal, dance, desire,
	Storm of Fire	Dean Wood	Sedoka	Sedoka	salamander, mythology,
	Muthoni - from Kenya	M Braimah Saaka	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, break up, love,
	Stained Carpet	James Edward Lee Sr.	Limerick	Limerick	salamander, adventure, allusion, angst, anxiety,
	Exponential Decay Function	Robert Ronnow	Verse	Verse	salamander, beautiful, bird, day, death,
	Give me another chance	Solomon Ochwo-Oburu	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, allusion, humanity, life,
	Mamba Night at the Marsh	cheryl hoffman	Light Verse	Light Verse	salamander, animal, humor, music,
	ELECTION REFLECTION - JOIN IN THE COLLABORATION	JAN ALLISON	Limerick	Limerick	salamander, humorous, political, satire,
	End Of Days	Keith Bickerstaffe	Verse	Verse	salamander, horror,
	On a Wet Country Road	ilene bauer	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, nature,
	The Work: Summer Solstice, Avebury	Gail Foster	Iambic Pentameter	Iambic Pentameter	salamander, love, mystery, mythology, nature,
	O Salamander	Garth von Buchholz	Heroic Couplets	Heroic Couplets	salamander, animal, dream, fantasy, imagery,
	Joys And The More Rugged Dials	Matt Caliri	Blank verse	Blank verse	salamander, future,
	Wimpy Kid with a Big Imagination	J.W. Earnings	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, deep, children, hope, meaningful,
	Enlightening Cavern	Daniel Turner	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, adventure, beautiful, growth, nature,
	End Of Days re-post	Keith Bickerstaffe	Verse	Verse	salamander, holocaust,
	End Of Days	Keith Bickerstaffe	Verse	Verse	salamander, earth, writing,
	PALACE OF BEAUTY	DeeGee Anarka	Blank verse	Blank verse	salamander, addiction, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
	RDW	Donovan Beukes	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, blessing, death, inspiration, inspirational,
	The goddess soup	KAYOD5 Kayode	Verse	Verse	salamander, children,
	A MURDER FOR EMMA	RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, anger, moon, murder, mystery,
	A Glimpse Within - I	Race Benoit	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, depression, introspection, loneliness,
	The Blind Can See	Marlowe Sr.	Ballad	Ballad	salamander, body, celebration, cheer up,
	The Year I Found	Roger Hadden	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, absence, age, anniversary,
	7TH DAY ADVENT	Nola Perez	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, bird,
	Adapting around	Peter Kiggin	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, animal,
	Pass your Hands	Durlabh Singh	Romanticism	Romanticism	salamander, dedication, relationship,
	Salamander Oasis	Justin Debrosse	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, faith, memory, moon, nature,
	Santeria Love Potion Number 9	Julian Joseph	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, girlfriend, goodbye, growing up,
	Salamander	laszlo kecsedi	Narrative	Narrative	salamander, spiritual, fire, fire,
	End Of Days	Keith Bickerstaffe	Verse	Verse	salamander, on writing and words,
	Pornstar Pottery	Ph.d Volo Von Wolfenstein	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, passion, drug,
	It Could be Would	Dort James	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, love, sweet, sweet,
	The Axolotl	Constantin Severin	Free verse	Free verse	salamander, inspirational,
	On the Road	Tony Lane	Light Verse	Light Verse	salamander, funny,
	Wordvomit	Moose Bak	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, imaginationlove, i love you,
	My Zoo From A to Z	Andrea Dietrich	Abecedarian	Abecedarian	salamander,
	Sugar	Anastacio Rivera	I do not know?	I do not know?	salamander, life, love, nature
	Always the Fool	Max Gatrell	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	salamander, lost love, lovedeath, death,
	Window Sill	Jessica Arteaga	Personification	Personification	salamander, places
	I want to Throttle That Darned Axolotl!	angela sutherland	Rhyme	Rhyme	salamander, funny, on work and

Salamander Poem Example

The Work: Summer Solstice, Avebury

Across the land this morn, a roll of light 
Gave birth to shadows, cast from chalky hills
The larks ascended, sang away the night
Vibrated sky to waking with their trills
‘Tis Summer; round the circle swirls the breeze
As darkness yields unto the swell of day
As every meadow hums with birds and bees
And scent of elder steals the breath away

This is the time, when earth craves heaven’s kiss
All full of lust, all bursting in its bloom
All lost in heady momentary bliss
Before the fall, and crashing down to doom
Now comes the wren, as if from nowhere blown
Within its beak a lively twig of oak
And suddenly, forth from a door of stone
Springs sacred fire, and wild midsummer smoke

And from within the smoke the King appears
From black stream spilled, the son of mountain high
With shield burnished bright by virgins’ tears
And salamander flame within his eye
Upon his head a crown of acorns sits
He holds a horn of gold from faery lands
Across his face a flick of fear flits
He plants his feet on earth, and solid stands

And She; blue butterflies around her head
Bare breasted, barefoot, riding a white mare
With piercing speedwell eyes to blind the dead
And poppies red all woven in her hair
She rides, in to the circle, on her horse
Dismounts in silence, looks him in the face
Above them both, the sun, stopped in its course
For here is now, and only now, this place

He touches her, he places sword to cup
She speaks some ancient magic without sound
Above their heads the heavens open up
Bright waterfalls of light pour to the ground
She touches him, and fossils shake from sleep
Electric rivers rise with shock and force
To flood the sky with fire from the deep
All light in circuit, flowing back to source

Just now, oh now, now come, now come; now gone
All energy subsides, and colours dim
They rise up from the ground they laid upon
He steps away, and bows, and She to him
A feather from a lark falls gracefully
To land among the flowers where they sat
He fades into the smoke, and so does She
And so The Work is done, and that is that

The wren returns, and sits upon a stone
A holly berry glistens at its feet
It sings a song through all the ages known
A song of earthly bliss, and heaven sweet
For all the Gods are one God, sang the wren
All Goddesses one Goddess, ‘neath one Sun
And we are one another, Gods, and men
As God and Goddess, joined together; One  

© Gail Foster 2016

Poem Copyright © Gail Foster