Short Cinders Poems

Mindful, he holds her
She lingers like burning cinders
Merely enchanted...

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Shake and Bake
Chicken fingers
forgotten  in the oven
 chicken cinders now...

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HAIKU
sun roasted…tasty
helped by charcoal cinders
the dog sat begging
...

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Embers of the past…  
fire inside my memory,
cinders of time
—ashes in the wind

(The New Room: June, 2021)...

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Pills swallow what is left of me whole,
Just as bottled pints drink my guzzled self,
And cigarettes suck the cinders of my incinerated soul....

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Embed desires 





cinders of my dreams
embed red in heart sparkle 
your touch sets ablaze....





Written July 23rd, 2015
© Dr. Upma A. Sharma...

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it became a nightmare above all else,
enriched with cinders of an ashen dream.
the power of freedom asks a heavy price: 
our intelligence is not all it may seem......

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It is as old as time.
Yet not even age could
Dampens its destructive
Powers. Like the molten
Lava of an erupted volcano,
Every facet of our lives
It touches incinerates
To cinders...

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in
reluctant
teardrops
plop 
visions
of my field
of dreams
a bloody
track
of cinders
where
schemed
lithe
runners
to box me in
and ere 
i fell 
this 
lonely race
become
my requiem...

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O’ burning bush, where should I look?
Your fires burn infinite;
Those ambers a blaze;
Yet in the cinders golden haze;
You sparkle, always…

11/2/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020...

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Flames dance 
in burnt cinders 
flickering like fireflies  
smothering the mundane to stir 
passion  
 

By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, January 24, 2012
Third Place in any form/ any theme, 2 -12 contest...

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When the sun burns bright
After a long cold night
Scorching your skin to cinders
With its bright light
When the world gives you wounds
And watches it fester with delight
Mend your broken wings and fly
Because I know you can...

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Love cover me in splinters, 
raze the grass and unleash the cinders. 
The fingers of time reside in dreams 
as you speak with ease. 
But your tongue is unmatched for your train wreck heart, 
never knowing which way to stop or start...

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Fire burns my heart is aflame;
The burning desires substance;
Constant are those, burning flames;
I'm ablaze amazed by the cinders;
Ashes to ashes to death,
No longer breath?



written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021...

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What’s a locked gate to lovers?
They breeze right by
on wish-upon-a-star and moon beams.
They slip under, through, or over.

Was there a moon that night?
Who knows? Who cares?
It was a fire-road, alright,
and we, a flame that leaves no cinders....

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tyrranical intimidation
cuts down freedom 
and cuts down
love, let the 
towering tyrrany
fall to ash 
that cannot blow
blow to fire again
let the republic
rise from tis
small cinders
and grow
to a blaze
that was
once my home.
...

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I swallow
tip back my head 
to one side
and gasp
like it was my first breath
The cool liquid
creeps down my throat
and heats up my insides
and makes my body glow
like the cinders 
in an old fashion stone hearth
Time move on
quickly
the glow fades 
and then goes out...

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leaves fall in hot wind
to be crushed by new school shoes
in morning's apple red sun

fireworks are cinders
as summer fades and calls us
to a last frenzy for fun

8/31/19

Writing Challenge 3, August 2019 - Six Lines
Sponsor, Dear Heart- Wiishkobi Ode...

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There is a flame that warm within you glows
That needs no fuel but constant care;
If attention wanders out of doors
Dies down dim to cinders bare.

Blow it back by gentle breath,
With noble actions poke it high'
Watch it grow in length and breadth
And leap beyond you to the sky....

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looking skyward

colors of a pallet soak a vast horizon

a fire of blinded eyes stare in a fixed moment

a calm of a blue tomorrow awaits a distant hope

a love of a dreaming fool dances free.......






_______________________
   Inspired by Jim David
  and his poem "Cinders"...

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lost lips linger
     as cinders heat thaws good bye kiss
       do embers surprise    oh yes

       shower of wild sparks
     can love rise from cold ashes

let our dew feed the phoenix


Susan Ashley 
July 12, 2021


(Katuata Poetry Form)
PS syllables per lines: 5 7 7 0 5 7 7...

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In the midst of midnight twilight 
sleep meekly fades in the moonlight. 
Umber earth and men encumber, 
nature’s chatter, charmed in slumber.
Tranquil dreams of peace, no sorrow, 
thankful for light of tomorrow.
Epic heartbeats waves break away 
warm cinders soothe the moment stay.


 
Date: 11/7/2018...

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She so delicate of visage
Veiled in obscurity
Intangible appearances
Faceted in flowing black mists

Eyes buffering the vagueness lit
Piercing through shadow
Contained within
Turbulent metaphors of dusk

Tempting destiny uncontrolled
Splashing hot crimson 
Upon the life sparked cinders
Empathizing too late...

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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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chisel to mortar 
little bits of me exposed 
annihilation

ashes to ashes 
cinders of love still remain  
inside life's refrain 

a perfect snowflake 
cooling the surrounding air   
evaporation 

lost in timelessness 
Harnassing power of stars
illumination 
 






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