Short Kindling Poems

A warm reception.
Kindling a new romance.
The burn of an old flame....

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Grief now is the fire
My soul the bitter kindling
Strike the pyre,I burn!...

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nature's rice krispies

   kindling wood on the fireplace
 
     ~ snap, crackle and pop!...

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Silence ignited
sound into kindling
Sign language robots
— ears set afire

(The New Room: April, 2024)
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Tender
Intimacy 
Creates
Kindling 
Love
Exciting

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Youthfulness

Foundling
All
Nerves
Causing
Yearning...

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So unexpected;
arriving after the fire,
as the embers cooled;
quenched with hateful bitterness.
Kindling for a sorry heart....

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kindling our deepest fears,
always drowning in our tears.
realizing all our hells,
mellowing alarum bells.
always we find our life in the end....

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Hell is the space between words
Endless….searching….helplessness
A raging fire seeking kindling
Lest its flame succumb
To hell’s emptiness
 
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conceptual fictions
from imagination
        and mind-
kindling to fire
happenings
     in the seeing eye-
voices speaking
self a understanding
    in the ear...

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Woke

When white lies plot the course 
Oscillating between trust and deception 
Kindling radical dialogue with smoking tongues 
Escalating unilateral world supremacy 
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blazing sun set
                                fire hued meadow resonates
                                        crickets crackling
         
                     



12.05.18...

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Yellow is your favorite color like the sun
while Aquamarine is mine like the sea
kindling our inseparable bond 
like the sunrise and sunset 
bursting over our warm tropical horizon 
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You can’t think your way
into a poem
Or feel your way
out of a verse

They first must conspire…
your spirit inspired
Words no longer forced
—or perverse

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

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In 
the finality
of its embers

Form
burns like 
 a kindling

Freeing
the beginning
of all that is possible

Freeing
the memory
— of tomorrow’s embrace  

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)
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We write of the past
and guess at the future
Tracks of experience
clear and well marked

Deep in our consciousness
 memory hoping
Yesterday’s kindling
— tomorrow will burn

(Dundale: June, 2024)
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Everlasting Grace
Touched this heart
Softly embraced,
Imbued its art.

Enduring love
Kindling dreams
Drifting above
A starlight's gleam.


Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Rick Parise
11/07/2017...

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Another 
Blinding
Creepy
Deep
Everlasting
Freak
God-forbidden
Hidden
Inside
Just
Kindling
Life-stopping
Mother-ship
Never
Oppose
Precious
Quizzing
Ravenous
Scary
Top-dollar
U.F.O
Vans
With
X-ray
Yodeling
Zingers...

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Our summer ends today
Let your hold be close
Let it be a forever warm time
Wax my waning heat
Oh! The pleasure is here.

Steady your kindling
Slow my burning
Autumn is near..
I pray thee, make me warmly preserved....

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Absolutely beautiful
celestial diamonds
encourage flickering
galaxies heavenly invitations
joyfully kindling
lucent moonbeams
nascent overtures
perhaps quietly reflecting
spiraling tints
upon vibrant
worlds...

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A power saw 
can slice through wood with awe
cut kindling or make a table leg
or staves for a wine keg
just make sure you get your digits out of the way in time
or you may be using your fingers only to count to nine....

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As believing Christians doubt
errantly forgetting God,
He intercedes judiciously,  
kindling love mid narcissism.
Our Paraclete,
quenchable, resident Spirit,
teaches us vital wisdom  
xenolith, yokefellow, zealot.
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   To celebrate Chanukah right
     is all about kindling light

   Restoring the Holy Temple's site
     one cruse of oil burned so bright ... 

   Israel's eternal plight ~
     to merely exist, it ever must fight...

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Afterglow...Burnt Candles 
Dissolve Embers,
Fondled Groans Heave 
Into Joyful Kindling...
Lush Moon's Nightscape Offers
Pleasure-- Quiet Ripples Sighing,  Trickling 
Under Velvet Whispers...
X-axis Yielding Zones.
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Find me NOT kindling a  low bonfire
as a single toll begins the night---
in every remoteness, each glee
you come offering ash-coal pebbles

how can seasons return; I’m alone ---
beyond, if you reach  out -- yes  find me


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Astoundingly  bedazzling celestial diamonds
encourage flickering galaxies heavenly invitations,
joyfully kindling lucent moonbeams nascent  overtures
perhaps quietly  reflecting spiraling tints,
upon vibrant worlds
'xalting yonder zest...

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