Short Flameless Poems

Like endless words
emotionally meant
Like tideless memories
erratically spent
Like dreams that weave
a few days content
Like flameless smoke
love lies dormant...

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Luscious sweet  smells blanket my soul
A carpet of daffodils swaying one and all
Melodious sound croons  Kindle my core
Soothing  an undefined long-lasting sore
Crimson  flavors  furnish my hunger
Satisfy  a crave  that for long has lingered
A velvety touch awakens  my  doused fire
Igniting a flameless desire, a cold fire...

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Give me something I can feel
So that I know Love is real…

Living in my world of numbness
  and night,
Sometimes i wonder if I'll ever see 
  the light.

Wish as I may 
Wish as I might
I can't unwish
What has already been granted,
despite my fight.

And I can't care 
Cuz I'll care too much.
And I'm pretty certain you won't feel
The explanation in my touch.

Give me something i can feel....

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Forget those words, cold, distant calls
Penned to lead you o’er the falls
Toward blank white emptiness below

Hush now, your gurgled snarl
vile drool of fettered rage
Your words have not yet come of age

Yet they burn in flameless fire
Purging all but one desire
One word, that word, that perfect tone

Leave it there, a diamond lost,
Upon the edgeless yellow page
An ember’s light amid the frost...

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Toxic State

Endless endeavors embryonic embrace
Finite forever’s in a platonic place
Silently searching with afflicted affections
Of love’s misguided daunted deflections

You can not penetrate this superman soul
Love can pour out but not fill the hungry hole
Isolated illusions dismantled desires
Terminal toxins within flameless fires.


Dec.03.2016
Toxic State - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: FJ Thomas...

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Alas, there lingers deep within
a war that neither side can win
while the vanquished ran and hid
those triumphant forgot they did

and history, that lying vamp
would seat an angel with a tramp
so lives within the soul of men
an urge to fight the war again

for age and “wisdom” oft conspire
to reignite a flameless fire
a dream of victory’s charade
flag draped coffins on parade

John G. Lawless
©4/16/2022...

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feeding on its own fire,
     it rages from within itself,
          ablaze with the vilest ire

under the veneer of civility,
     with spiteful vengeance,
          it smolders smokeless

'neath the mask of generosity,
     with murderous intent,
          it burns flameless

behind the facade of sincerity,
     with insatiable wrath,
          it explodes noiseless

in a friendly smile embedded,
     a cold, seething ember - -
          white-hot hatred....

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Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Tomorrow
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  July/2018

Tomorrow’s dawn is flameless 
It’s a silhouette, camouflaged 
by an oasis of stars in the
Universe 

It’s a hidden ball of fire 
surrounded by 
the mystery shadows 
behind a Silver Moon -

Tomorrow’s breath lies 
in the birth of Dawn’s
Divine Holy Light;

Prayer, faith, and hope 
maintains in the belief 
that a Nu Sun will shine -

Rise tomorrow - Rise (!)

Copyright(c).,Ken Jordan 2018...

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