Short Infernos Poems

When
God's
fire falls-
infernos
ignite from top down...

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Raging infernos
Upon the naked forest
Through the crash of plane...

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Dawn of the city
sunset of humanity

Light a burning ash
—darkness closing in

(The New Room: September, 2022)...

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Always so... cordial
  Unfailingly... polite
    Cold-as-ice... phony smiles
            plastered to our faces

Tedious, boring... but not unpleasantly so
  nodding, agreeing... with nothing in particular

Infernos of hatred raging within us
  probing, never piercing, civility's placid surface...

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Ailing in this unending simmering incineration,
Undulation and swelter of sun-violated wheat,
Gasping for air and sucking in heat...Vertiginous visions visit me
Under a stinging sky: days heat-glazed and wine-hazed with her...
Sunflowers open their terrible portals, a tawny roar at the gate;
Tubers and tumours proliferate in infernal infernos of eight....

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dark branch of wrath
piercing my third eye
dewed petals of love
opening  hard rocks
i am sailing
magnetic inter actions
engulfing infernos
roots of innocent love
growing kissing the skies
i am helpless
reincarnation is not a sin
did i see her eyes before
words not expressed
i can hear
resuscitation of emotions
she is a hard rock

sep 14 2016
8.44 pm...

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What falls from my eyes is dry; as crystals of a saltine
Frozen waters, be damned; I find calm in what they mean
Sweetness of their memory; form a perfections praline
Warmth of space, you're a true descendant of constantine
Thawing by infernos of thoughts; they returned to saline
With untarnished glare, I find to be a perfect sheen
Through earned tears; uncompromised understanding, can be seen...

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To gaze on the face of Jesus,
A companion for you and us,
He is our forever friend,
His eternal love transcends,
A blessing that never ends,
Our Lord in no lingo limbo,
He shall survive infernos,
Ignorance ignites bigotry,
Fuelling phobias, no victory,
 We could start a new religion,
For all our teeming billions,
Peace on Earth for humans,
For guidance for all of us,
A unique timeless love,
To gaze on the face of Jesus....

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Diamonds scattered across the sky,
drizzling upon us as we silently tango through time,
impaled by the edges of our parallel reality,
as our dimming candle sparks the shadows of our unconscious infernos,
that tug at the noose around our necks,

We count sheep to the blare of taiko drums
perdition singing as the morning sun
our alchemical imagination being used against us,
like a firing squad dutifully delivering us,
one stray bullet at a time...

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All of Islam deserves our hate
Unlike ours—this faith can’t be great
The ground zero mosque
Is an evil kiosk
Our lord says to obliterate

What’s better than the Ku Klux Klan
And frightens the bad Taliban?
Yes—with a book roast
America will toast
Those evil who read their Koran

Burning books ain’t nothing to fear
Infernos are fun with a beer
So with drink all cheer—(hip hip hooray!)
To hate is nothing queer
Hitler did it—and he we revere...

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Firemen

Serve
Bravely
Fighting flames
Risking their lives
Facing dangerous infernos of death.

Families fear as firemen save lives
hellholes raging
destroying
blazing
death.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 17, 2010

Poetic form:  Tetractys

Dedicated to firemen around the world.  But particularly to my son-in-law, Steven Collins, 
who has risked himself and saved others.  I love you for your valor and because of who you 
are.  Love, Mom2....

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Into the burning infernos they charged
With valor and courage and hearts enlarged
Without concern for the risks ahead
They ventured to save other lives instead
New York’s bravest and finest pros
Reacting valiantly in terror’s throes
As a nation looked on in shocked surprise
Our heroes became angels before our eyes
The sacrifice that their families made
Never in this lifetime can be repaid
But we can help them stay proud with no regret
By ensuring that day we never forget...

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The human spirit was made for this place
Distance greater than quadrillions of miles
Yet we reach to the stars with open hand -
Think of them as neighbors with eager smiles

We find our peace in the trillions of stars
And the tranquil space that lays in between
But,oh, it is the most violent place
Nothing else like it has ever been seen


Raging star infernos that never fade

Our universe and we are not afraid


7-3-19
Contest:The Universe
Sponsor: Nina Parmenter...

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I curse the night that lives in me
and turned my heart so cold.

I blaspheme the hollow gods
who failed to save my soul.

I blame the laughing crones of fate
who placed me in this cell 

and bargain with Beelzebub
to pardon me from hell.  

Though I burn inside the flames
of infernos I made,

I shall suffer silently,
and feign I'm not afraid.

I damn the tears inside my eyes,
for I won't cry aloud.

Although I know that I am doomed,
my head shall ne'er be bowed....

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I sketch musky infernos with kohl ink
when dead wings of flurry moon lace my
copper blue lashes and ripples
of faith crash furthest seashores,
Draping stelliform-soul
in strokes of starlight
which drizzle as
lemon drops
upon
pink
sheet-
canvas,
So when red
letters twirl like
blood stained cranberries,
rose-gold amulets will
always save the salted flesh
of sun and wildflowers shall shine
as magenta peony-bows in
maroon hair-strings, forever breathing dreams. ...

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