Short Cinder Poems

Cinder strings ignite
orange blossoms, summer nights
Crickets listen in......

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Try to be tender
Don’t burn me to a cinder
I tried to render

By Robb A. Kopp...

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too many questions
too many decisions
my head is heavy in thought
i hit the pillow like a cinder block...

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childhood home
driving by the cinder block
on  a dusty road
children climb and play
around the same dogwood...

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lithe   athletic  limbs
churning  up  the  cinder   track  
paralympics  next 

~25 Jun 2016~...

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He wanted to be a contender
So Marlon set out on a bender
But nary a pub
Sold beer by the tub
Elvis knew he'd return to cinder...

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Passions heat turns blaze 
A blue white intensity 
Close my eyes to it 
and ride the heat waves higher 
to the point I am a cinder...

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childhood home
a cinder block
on a dusty road
children still climb and play
around the same dogwood

Published Ribbons, Winter 2015...

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There was a fire eater named Glinder
Who performed for a circus in Flinder.
He pushed the torch down far
Forgetting his hours at a bar. 
All that remains of Glinder is a cinder....

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fire,


Big and small fires flame
Burnt ‘scents’ fill outward borders
With cinder filled breezes
They who ‘touch’ a fire gets burned
Be very careful to confine!
…. didee© Tanka...

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Cremate my soulless body
and collect my ashes in a black urn
Take my flakes of cinder
and free them into the calm Pacific
Let my spirit flow toward peace
and embrace the waves of eternity....

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The cold Christmas night
The snow gleams white
Cold winds blow outside
The trees shiver and hide
Cinder keeps warm inside
The snow feels light
Beautiful sight
It is a cold night
Celebrate Christmas in the moonlight....

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Birds fled from the sky
Cinder of clouds dry for rain --
The lightning forks night

The landscape is bare
The water recedes to deep -
Tsunami rises

The earth belches smoke
Thundering hooves char the leaves -
Volcano erupts....

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beat me back
I'm a 
wildfire
out of control
burning down the hillside
underground in into the trees
where I don't belong
I might be natures way
but I'm 
destructive
I'll turn you black
I'll turn you into cinder sand that blows
into dust....

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As the pen strokes fade away
I find myself flustered-
as the cinder block wall collapses,
freeing the plains- the single tree
full of dying leaves begins to shake-
the dead boughs and pages.
Brimming with hope-
but alas the pen stroke is gone,
all was as it should be-...

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The sun is dying
The giver of live on earth
will be a nova

It’s burgeoning red
It’s pulling the earth closer
The oceans turn dry

We are burning up
The sun consumes the cinder
that was our planet

Nothing else to do
The inevitable end
is now upon us
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Light a cinder
For all accumulated burdens
Life renews in a millisecond
As veins pump golden stories

Bonfire for vanity-
is good to feast on doubt
Celebrating royal love
Like tribes in weary sands

Realizing time is a gambit
Universe is out on loan
Are we are the passage...

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Void within fills with magnetism 
Dormant fears yet hinder
Desire bubbles, ego spawned chasm
Touch not burning cinder 

The road is long; enjoy!
Devoid of ego ploy
Light glows within, ahoy!

Bliss overspills
Void within fills

18-October-2021
Quietus ...

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In my arctic heart
perennial permafrost
freezes fragile emotions.

In your flaming fervor
glacial desire turns cinder 
in the inferno of love.

In my blazing yearning
searing crave swirls 
with fervent flare of fire.

__________

January 8, 2023
For Brian Strand Contest No. 1167...

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The clouds hanging low 
muffled the maple-covered mountain.
Fog from the saturated earth
weakly, wet the newborn breeze.
Mist maintained the rainy connection
between earth and eternity.
A gray day lay upon 
the weary weakened eye of morning.
Soon the breeze blossomed to wind
wiping the cinders from the sun....

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To ignite a life
within an empty fireplace
where the glow of the flame
reigns supreme,
reminds me
of a life time,
born and death
so, it seems.

For when the flame dies
and to rake through the ashes
sends a shiver down one’s
senescent spine,
knowing that one
similar day,
those embers
akin to mine.

© Harry J Horsman 2018...

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The Smell of a flower so fresh and potent
Taste of virgin now become of bloom
Feel alive so tenderly touched upon
Gates of fire cinder my thoughts of temptation
A las heaven strikes my body and soul, I smile
His physique piled of smooth stone as of culture
To the dawn we awake to the sun
Hunting for feelings but my body won’t surrender...

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Clouds were drawn
on kisses,
yet your body
burned like a hot cinder.

Probability of the sin?
Incestuous,
pure love,
my roses were hurting you.

My tongue choked
your tormented words like hails.
It was not me,
only the whirling fear.

Your hands were carving
a moon out of the frosted face
and I was collecting
the fallen stars.


SATISH VERMA...

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Cinder snaps
Lightning wings
You are this
and many things
Wrapping print
paper ink
Caught amongst
the lines, I think
Pomp and light
Candle wane
On the verge
but always sane
Liquid sugar
Sweet intake
Watching ripples
in your wake
Rainbow glow
Air to touch
Catch my ears
It's just too much
Marble mind
Cinder skin
Wishing you 
would let me in......

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Exercises'
When he said: the smiles, 
Reviving the hope
I smiled..; 
But the wall cried..! 
.
When he said: 
Love ignites the heart
I fall in love..; 
But the cinder, was put out! 
.
When he had said: 
Surround The Love
By hope
I become optimistic..; 
But I heard whimper of my heart! 
, 
O..Oh teller..
Teach me more..
Lest not to lost in the dark! ! 
Fatima Nusairat...

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