Short Stoking Poems

Short Stoking Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Stoking by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Stoking by length and keyword.


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A Man's Metal

fatherless husband
loins aching for progeny 
empty wombs await seeding
childless mothers cry
opening soft pocket sighs
stoking the steel thorns rising


Contest: Sedoka Me Any Subject
Poet: Debbie Guzzi
Categories: stoking, family, funeral, life,
Form: Sedoka


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Haiku Echoes

A culture of guns,
	An epidemic of hate;
	Domestic terror...

	Stoking bigotry,
	Klan pride & racism:
	Cooing doves silenced...

	Mocking clarity,
	Rising white nationalism;
	Justice checkmated...
Categories: stoking, 12th grade, allegory, america, conflict, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
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Clown Car

Twisting turning
Engine burning
Never learning
To slow it down

Fires stoking 
Tires smoking
Ever joking 
A common clown

Racing master
Always faster
Near disaster
The best in town

Loves to brag 
Will never lag
Checkered flag
The winning crown
Categories: stoking, car, race,
Form: Rhyme
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Forgiving

Falling out with either
Friends or family can
Flood hearts with resentment,
Fuelling rage and hatred.
Forbear from stoking fire.
Find fair reconcilement.
Forgiveness sets you free.

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Contest: Pleiades - F
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 4th
Categories: stoking, forgiveness,
Form: Verse

Turning Me Back

My pen would be dry if the world
  were the only cry for more

But Laura’s voice from within, 
  asserts with solemn command

Kindling my eternal fire—stoking the
  questioning cord

Burning away the doubt
  —turning me back around

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
Categories: stoking, muse,
Form: Free verse


Turning Me Back Around

My pen would be dry if the world
  were the only cry for more

But Laura’s voice from within, 
  asserts with a solemn command

Kindling my eternal fire—stoking the
  questioning cord

Burning away the doubt,
—and turning me back around

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
Categories: stoking, muse,
Form: Free verse

Stoking

Do not want to 
be judged, after overplaying 
    my hand with clear moon.

            *

    Cancer was back 
and so were the strange remedies.
    Are you ready to become a crab ?

            *

    The beehive 
was empty. Honey is gone.
    My anger waning.


Satish Verma
Categories: stoking, analogy, art,
Form: ABC

Love You

Like a fire heats
the skin,
your touch warms
my body,
with fingers stoking
up and down,
like the tall grass
waves back and forth,
your love is like
the sun,
shining so bright,
it streams life
through my veins,
full of passion
and love,
my body burns 
for you,
because my love,
for you will always be true.
Categories: stoking, girlfriend-boyfriend, husband, love, passion
Form: I do not know?

The Swarm

.

in swirling swarm,
like wayward thoughts,
dark pestilence 
from nowhere
suddenly descends
upon verdant farms,
darkening the summer
noonday sky;


hapless, helpless,
villages scramble,
stumble-- fanning
smoky embers of
hastily built bonfires,
stoking torches' 
failing flames,
ah, frantic futility!


.
Categories: stoking, natural disasters
Form: Free verse
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Waterfall of Love

Baby, give me a waterfall 
overflowing the cliffs of love,
create a river to my heart.

You, the momentum of my heart,
like a galvanic waterfall,
stoking the current's flow of love.

If doctors could cardiograph love,
and chart its flow within my heart,
the graph would show a waterfall~

a waterfall of love into the river of my heart.
Categories: stoking, love,
Form: Tritina

Stoking a Flame

In raw blackness 
you want to find fireflies 
in the hedges.

Green on green 
I ambush the chill 
of a dying moon.

Silently you meditate, 
as the fog descends 
settling discreetly-

on your thoughts.
A cat jumps the wall 
in pursuit of a game.

Why to recall the father’s 
death. In autumn night 
I will break the vow.


Satish Verma
Categories: stoking, art,
Form: ABC

Natures Yawn

A hazy mist or morning dew scatters in the foreground
Unsighted but audible songbirds begin to chant stoking up the dawn. 
The night is the governesses which now fade in its shadows
submitting to the streams of light from nature’s early yawn. 
Icicles drip, earth spins, everlasting time in motion while
life’s festivities end but preserved roots begin again
Categories: stoking, nature, sunshine,
Form: Free verse

Inland

INLAND stoking the flame here for the ride sum of our parts beat of our hearts goldfish approach swimming afloat lost in vast lands building on sand inland happiness waits pledged sanity hitting the keys musical three’s pose-able you in cloudy skies personal brand alone we stand inland © Kim van Breda—26 January 2015
Categories: stoking, imagery, imagination, parody, word play,
Form: Rhyme
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Beauty of Day's Harvest

Ah, the exotic blend of new spice
and desires on the tip of the tongue,
love's seductive dawning does entice
cinnamon cravings wakened among

thrills of ardent aster in Fall bloom,
whispers and lips in butterfly tease
stoking hearth’s heat in surrendered swoon
harvesting lust with vanilla ease

on eve of Autumn leaves and passion.


Susan Ashley
September 28, 2019
Categories: stoking, autumn, beautiful, day, lust, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme

Walk On Embers

crave for, dream of
   wealth, power, fame, love,
      if worth fighting about,
         must be worth fighting for;

              and one can attain a dream
                 the moment he  wants it bad
                  enough to walk barefoot 
                on a mile of embers,

            even fanning them,
         stoking the flames, 
     if need be,
to get it.
Categories: stoking, hope, introspection, passion,
Form: Free verse

Christmas Shove

See that Santa
He's by the fire
He's bringing gifts
a tree can mire

While stoking stockings
joy will sire
Each Christmas wish
becomes real spire

That all be children
for the light
When tasked for presents
born to right

That all who rate
their children's smile
Will do so
telling tales awhile

When all along
their children's love
Is more than gifts
but some-ware shove
Categories: stoking, analogy, appreciation, christmas, giving, holiday, love, mentor,
Form: Quatrain
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The Allure of a Mature Woman

Thrills of ardent aster in Fall bloom,

   whispers and lips in butterfly tease -

     stoking hearth’s heat in surrendered swoon 

harvesting lust.. with vanilla ease.


Susan Ashley
October 9, 2020


~ Second Place ~
Original poem “Beauty Of Day’s Harvest” - September 28, 2019
Premiere Contest: Rithimus Divisa 9 
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden

Submitted for contest on October 9, 2020
Categories: stoking, autumn, beauty, flower, imagery, love, lust, woman,
Form: Rhyme
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Friendship and Coffee

Saturdays, together, drinking coffee
stoking caffeine, we held life in our hand.
Looking back now, our dreams were too lofty.
With rich-bodied coffee, we saw life's plan
as one of beauty in a magic land.

Koffee klatches we lost somewhere in tiime.
But in rich aroma dwell memories
of friendship and coffee--moments sublime
when life held such promise and energies
and a cup of coffee held reveries
© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stoking, absence, appreciation,
Form: Quintain (English)
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To a Raven

Fearless Raven, soaring in
the rich, dark chasm—
that world of shadows, echoes,
cliffs and crags chaotic,
the void of subtle stirrings in
a quintessential midnight—
Make some room for me
on your old, straight wings.
I, too, need to sense
lightning piercing stardust,
galvanizing mountains,
stoking distant thunder.
Let me catch a breath
of your pure, primeval air,
exotic and unshackling
latent, raw, unbounded.
© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stoking, angst, bird, fantasy, freedom, inspiration, magic, raven,
Form: Free verse
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Copla Treinta Y Cuatro This Bad Guy World

COPLA TREINTA Y CUATRO: This Bad Guy World

Everything points to Life being
Some Body's idea of a joke:
Should be better

Of all the deadly sins breeding
Greed and lust Man's sloth provoke:
Perish never

Lust drives Man to steal neighbour's wife
Greed makes him want to kill neighbour:
Trickster takes all

Imperative in dreary life
Is the stoking of desire:
Hear Death's last call

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2014
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stoking, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Yonder Thy Houses In the South

Yonder thy houses in the south
Santa heading from north
Grandfather stoking the flames 
Songs of joy and praise
Whiffs of peppermint and mocha
Presents under a wreath
Flakes melting on palm
Earth still and calm


Yonder thy bridge in the west
Flame in the eyes of a child
Drunken and the lost gather round
Bitter snow reminiscent of sweet dreams
Wishes and prayers of suns return
Yet stars only visible in the south
© Sean Neff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stoking, 11th grade, christmas, december, happy, usa,
Form: Free verse
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A Second Heartbeat

dazzling the eyes
like a star
lighting up
begins an unsung melody
flowing most beautiful
of rivers
tricking within
a soul

digging deep
i found
a golden treasure
wrapped most precious
of gems
touched the deepest

whispering softly
plays upon cords
drifting upon air
the sweetest 
of music
playing a violin
crying every breath
echoes in wind

stoking a fire
burning hot
blazing inferno
sparking desires
you darling
my second 
heartbeat
Categories: stoking, heart, romance,
Form: Free verse
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Burn My Soul Away

I try to get through life

I try harder every day

I hide the darkness that resides

I hide the the pain that eats away

I try to get through life

I try to find a way

I try to kill the past

I try to soothe the pain

I know somehow I'll lose

I know somehow one day?

I look out every way

I try to find a peace

I keep the flames at bay

I just somehow know the truth that

I'm stoking the fire that will burn my soul away.
Categories: stoking, character, conflict, confusion, courage, fear,
Form: Free verse
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Secret Battles- -- Silent Wars

Secret Battles—Silent Wars

 

Telling my secret battles

Celebrating the untold wars

Unfolding my choicest memories

Surfing the virgin’s pathways

Rhyming sacred hymns

Recalling stolen graces

Unveiling the hidden shadows

Parting the puffy clouds

Unmasking the hidden faces

Untangling woven phases

Quelling our sumptuous yearnings

Quieting every inner wailing

Quailing at the broken words

Stoking my ethereal flame
Categories: stoking, confidence, conflict, emotions,
Form: Narrative

Read the Signs

The cloven hoof prints
Should have been read 
Way before I signed
My contract with the dead.

My lawyer did not see
And nor did I
The fine printed sign
Of an evil lie.

Alive yet livid
Living in a haze
Of smoky pubs stoking
My booze fueled daze.

Singling out women
Of a tender nature
To take a hell ride
And feed the creature.

I pray I’m asleep
Spring, summer, fall
When the beast makes 
His final withdrawal. 	

I should’a read the signs.




26 April, 2016.
Categories: stoking, dark, imagery, murder,
Form: Quatrain
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