Short Smolders Poems

Raging anger smolders serenity.
But when softened by understanding, glows clearly....

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"In anger’s ash, forgiveness smolders; rise - before all is cold"

                                 ~11 Sep 2016~...

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frantic loneliness 
                                 insecure heart's love falters
                                      despair smolders life...

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carefully folded
she scrubs floors with tattered rags ~
sandalwood smolders

slave to his passions ~ 
beneath her silken sari
burning hatred grows...

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   Israel's prowess, ever bolder
     Hamas lit up, Gaza smolders

   America's firepower, ever older
     for a failed worldview, politicians sold 'er...

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patchouli incense
opens nostrils --
fragrant dreams

patchouli incense
smolders ethereal --
phantom dreams

patchouli incense
burns as fingers --
massaging dreams...

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"As I lay dying..."

Speak to me though I can no longer reply
As the life that was me does not comply
At once; for after the flame falters
The wick glows before it smolders....

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Mentor

Though I am no longer he who chased stars
There is much I kept for you in my memoirs. 
Ask of them now even as the flame falters
For the ember brightens before it smolders....

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Buried in the ashes
of life’s cremation
Human effort smolders
but embers await
Tomorrow today
today gone forever
Forever rekindled
—the smokescreen of fate

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023) 
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Emotion
Permafrost
Tundra heart

In your lured fire
My glacier soul
Smolders into
Desire ember

My blazing yearning
Dances with your flame
Conjoined lust ash flies
In sensual sky
From love inferno


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Easter Sunday
a cathedral smolders,
people are crushed and weeping.
While a painted egg sits in his hand,
he's blissfully unaware.
The only thing that exists are three white eggs.
A rainbow of colors on his tiny fingertips....

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The distance between our eyes
is an unmeasurable treasure
Where background worlds disappear
and our souls reach out to be tethered
to the mast of our heart
as the stillness of time
smolders in the dewy mist of our yearning
bonding us to the calm need of surrender

8/30/19
contest Silence...

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Dawn and Twilight Glory

Dawn’s
Neon
Orange flames,
Hot pink sizzles,
Pierce scarlet hued skies
Earth reflects morning fire.

Twilight horizon burns
Smolders in burnished
Amber embers
Flashing stars
Thunder
Moon

8-12-21
Contest: Merse – Nature’s Glory
Sponsor:  Malabika Ray Choudbury...

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Desperate choices
  and dead end roads

One sign pointing left
  the other right

Each choice a trap
  where vision smolders

Each choice a trap
  its decision charred

Two roads on fire
   the truth igniting 

Two roads on fire
  —where freedom burns

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...

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Whispering softly across bare skin
Sweet essence smolders deep within
Colors of passion, hues of hazy blue
Melting my worries with all that is true
Warmth drifts upward toward the sky

Hungry desire ignites a fever that rises
Smoke dances, twirling with surprises







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Frisky kitty is in fresh, velvety flowers,
Dancing all the honeyed bloom hours.
As song drifts from the secret bowers,
Lacy clouds waft and the sun smolders.

Kitty courses in color and sweet odors,
The spell of youth has strange powers,
In greener days that happiness towers,
Until sun grows mellower and mellower....

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Her red dress
Pressed
To that beautiful black skin,
She looks like a forest fire
Racing up a mountain top

Burning up

She cannot stop
Her wild curves
Engulfed in flames.

She smolders
In a corner
Of the ballroom,

My eyes,
Like two emptied water glasses
On a tray,

Gliding by
On the shoulder
Of a much younger waiter....

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The waiting room, we go into it
Intuit
Says fear and what ifs await
A weight 
Hangs heavy 'pon shoulders
Smolders
Then sags, lips droop, eyes dim
Brim
With tears until 
'Til
The doctor says all is well 
Well!    

An Echo Verse poem. A novelty type of verse. I thought I would give it a try. 
Written: January 07, 2023...

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If you wanted my beating heart
You should’ve treated it right from the start

Yet you set me on fire 
cause you hate yourself
Watched my burning pyre 
As you berate yourself

Now my carcass smolders 
In the ashes of
What sickens me to call our love 

It gives me glee to see
It blow away in the wind
As if it was never there to begin 
And at last I am free again...

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Night after Days and Days after Nights
Romancing the Wish,
Your angel touch will soothe my skin

But the Moon and Clouds and Stormy Sun
They bring in Lust and Fear
And it never happens, I never win

Wake in the morning with a withering hope
Rise out of bed
What faces of yours will I see today?

Tomorrow, the potential smolders
Smokes all the words,
And I am left alone with nothing to say...

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the scalding smoke
smothers
raging wildfires burn with bestial fury
toxic smoke saturates the Lower 48
smoky air sears through lethargic lungs

AIR QUALITY ALERTS!
AQI 80>100>300>400+
Codes Orange>Red>Purple>Maroon

purple dots proliferate on the map
N95 masks stage a comeback
The Big Apple suffocates in orange haze

the smothering sky
smolders...

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Is there a flame within your heart?
Or, have your fires become dormant 
By the unbearable weight of suppression?
Has your will adjusted to the size of your flame?

Rekindle all fires, from a dormant flame
Awaken it! From one that smolders,
Reenergize and reanimate!
Let not other people’s fires control 
And be the reason yours die out.
Let yours burn on as an eternal flame,
Moving you on into the success of all tomorrows....

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Anyone can find the absurdity in life, 
But only the strong can make it their wife. 
Nay, not the strong in the arm or the shoulder, 
Nor the behomoths who love lifting boulders,
I mean the sort who's heart always smolders,
A fiery love, of every day older.
One so much smarter than everyone knows, 
One who thinks harder than they'd ever show. 
I think that's just what afflicts us the most; 
We're so much smarter than we even know....

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The pain in my heart
feels like a burning fire
Burning on & on forever.
As I burn slowly
I feel every part of it.
And as I forgive him again
the fire grows hotter
It burns Longer
So the pain stays
Will I learn?
Yes.
Because I'm done forgiving.
I'm done trusting.
All together I'm done.
In my heart,
the fire burns out.
But it still smolders.
SO forever I will remember
there one was a fire.
And I will always know 
how bad it hurt....

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Spiraling, scorching, sweltering,
The anger pierces my soul
Burns, smolders, boils
Flames into rage; raw, intense
Then fades into despair
Helplessness, powerlessness
Seeping in, reeking of
Prejudice, injustice, hatefullness.
What can I do to stop
The slithering obsidian snake
Of hatred creeping into the very core of me?

I can forgive, pardon the ones
Attempting to extinguish my spark.
I can remember that their animosity
In the end, will destroy them,
Not me....

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