Short Pyres Poems

No prior POTUS has admired
Towered pyres for esquires they’d hired
Tired not by work hard
Now wired the trump card
That commands retire or You're Fired!...

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THREAD OF FIRE

You say you are not worthy to be remembered
Yet, you are that thread of fire!
The one not put out, never extinguished
One sparking a million singing pyres
Your verses breed inner conflict
In turn breeding flames of desire 
How dare you concede you're unworthy
When you are that one thread of fire!...

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This land of entitlement, 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping, clutching, scraping the infernal sky.
arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunt like houses of Man 
burning, cursing the American wasteland.
Napalm fields, 
embers of pyres that rage, 
race across 
This holocaustic ape....

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They had surrounded the tank;
collars on the legs.
You were tracking the revolution.

The process melts the crosses 
in flowing blood.
Everybody was carrying a rose.

The bruises were spreading
on table.
King was drinking wine.

Unwritten law.
Death will sleep on street
with burning pyres.

Don’t throw the blankets
on red eyes.
Moon will stay whole night.


Satish Verma...

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Flames swallow oxygen,
duplicitous in their deeds,
circumventing steel barriers—
steel barriers doubling over.

Ashen soot cakes the walls;
walls crumble, interlacing with soot.
Pyres of fire lick the night sky;
crimson smoke suffuses the air.

Breathing in microparticles,
microparticles sticking
to fibrous membranes—
breathing collapses.

Lit match—ignition,
cinders glow.
...

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Psychogenic stagnant waters; proxy..
Gravitational pulls within, lucids vortex 
Power play ? Spindrifts seminal phantoms
Hovering about hallucinations now, sailing away
Atop their mystic sea a fogs blanket to cover these
Misty dreams tinseled his truth as whirlwind horizons ?
Climbing this mast and stiletto in hand an etching, your vision...
Icon's fanning flames adrift amid, blasphemic pyres, of pseudo gods....

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It seems no matter how hard I try
I can never escape this flesh of mine ? 
My enemy is not Lucifer, fallon angels or
Demons spirits rulers as any other powers
Albeit most assuredly yes they do contribute
Unto these trials in reasons amid their own kiln..
While we wake another day about it's walls flames
Bringing us to our knees pyres hearts whom can forego ?
Flee this wisdom which keeps one bound atop, His love's altar....

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In life's harsh drought
Rain feels like a faint memory,
Seasons change quickly
Upheavals hurl

Dry thoughts like cinder
Flames of crackling wood
Burning with fierce heat
Spark consuming spark

Ashes in dry season
Hazy shades floating far
Ashy debris suffocate
Hazy grey mists obscure 

Dry months conspire
Tree pyres consuming,
What can we do
From far far away?




Leon Enriquez
20 March 2016
Singapore...

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Insidious, insipid, id-inebriated imbeciles
wage a wanton war of words without wit, wisdom or worldliness.
Regrettable, repugnant reprobates ravage refined realms as
pirouetting pariahic pyres patently a pyrrhic prize.

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16 syllables on every line - checked with howmanysllables.com
2 December 2017

For Barry Stebbings' "Alliteration" contest....

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The smoke is rising
On the far horizon
The Eastern skies are aglow
With the countless fires,
Of funeral pyres
In numbers we cannot know,
Strange fires indeed
That burn for the need
Of oxygenated air.
And we, who stand so far away,
Are still left cold, and smugly say,
“We are here, and they are there.”
But it’s fools who stand and look on blind
At the smoke that’s carried on the westward wind.

© Barry Freeman	5th May 2021...

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This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like houses 
remains of Man, remains insane 
burning, cursing some 

American empirical waste, mad!
napalm fields where embers of pyres that rage 
across this facade of a holocaustic ape
an end to a so called… 


Mad American Empire!...

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The weeping willow tree
Stands yonder sad and old,
In hundred winters he
Withstood the tempests cold.

Long since his sons and sires
Forelore the Earth profane,
Were burnt in funeral pyres,
And all his kinsmen’s train.

When wintry gales all things
Smite with their downy snows,
The Nightingale still sings,
That through the willow flows.

His sobbing I have heard
In murmuring high bough,
Whom asked the lonely bird,
Wherefore weepest thou?

13th May, 2017...

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A flag draped box on titanium stand
Bears all that remains of a noble man
A father’s pride, a mother’s grief
A widow’s tears without relief
A son whose memories begin to fade
As the soldier is solemnly laid
The torment a brief eternity
Brought by war infernally
Driven by other men’s desires
We raise yet more funeral pyres
And watch again our young men go
Though some may not return we know
How long shall we pay this bloody toll
With tokens made from our own soul
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The beast Alhambra 
roared a violent psalm
Vile conversos
horrid moriscos, 
the heretic herds
A spear thrust into
our sun’s martyred ribs
Held in hateful grips
the yellow warblers
dripped in crimson sheen
Flying like Michael
the vengeful vassal
of Aragon’s decree
“O Torquemada
Hark the righteous call
King of Suprema
Execute them all!”
Cold unfeeling wretch, 
the flesh guillotine
Teeth clicking sparks
lit endless pyres
Three made Seville
weep at the sight of Friars...

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We meet and greet
On the main street


We seize lingo
Play with bingo


Words we utter
Mind and matter


Seize words to stray
On umpteen ways


This and that way
Learn how to play


Sense thought profound
On common grounds


Leapfrog hot pyres
Get burnt by fire


Still we go on
Verge once upon


Seek to live well
On acts that tell


Sculpt a new day
From broken play


And then go round
More lost than found




Leon Enriquez
04 April 2017
Singapore...

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