Soot Poems

Torrid Affair

If, as the saying goes,
'There's no smoke without fire,'
is it smarter to ignite a spark
(illumination causation)
than bedamn the dark,
and thereby induce a funeral pyre,
or, better yet, a safer bet,
to avoid gossip and accusations,
find the substantiated fact(s)
(true datum)
before you act
and land in sorry situations?
It's no joke, on soot you'll choke,
yet, on the greener side,
carry the torch for earth

Categories: soot, earth, fire, fun, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

In Lieu of Soot

The world was my darkness
The soot in my blackened sights 
I once cried in shallows
Words entomed within my grave
Dug with smiles merrit of fading sorrows
My final morrows led by fate
Towards the rejoicing of tomorrow.

3.11.23

Categories: soot, childhood, death, dream,
Form: Free verse

Soot-Filled Dove

Children play by the tree
Rope slung over, far above
Gaping knot, left lose and free
Flying by, a soot filled dove

Nature blurred
Bodies burnt

Head held heavy
Tear filled eyes
Hope kept deadly
Blackened skies

Categories: soot, suicide,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Soot

Soot on LA highway signs. Billboard of you,
a real estate agent. All endeavor slides
toward inertia, extinction, forgetfulness.

It’s very tropical. Vegetation invades
the house unless constant inputs of joy
apply. The scientist in you feels the

great ape in you. The great ape feels
death growing wide. What about work?
I devote my present to my future existence.

In what way, in

Categories: soot, city, death, future, house,
Form: Verse

Ash and Soot

The anacrusis, please, andante maestoso,
six bars, before the chorus comes… Hell, what is wrong
with you, the mighty mage of music, virtuoso,
the treble clefsmith? Why the plain and silly song
a pretty flower girl sings outside the window
on her way home from night dating made you put
aside your magic bow? As holy Aurobindo
once said in such a

Categories: soot, love, music,
Form: Rhyme

From Soot To Riches

FROM SOOT TO RICHES

Cinderella lost her tiny glass shoe,
And after the ball there was much ado,
To find the owner it took
A while, she was sitting in soot
A princess she was made and no longer blue.

Categories: soot, dance, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Limerick

Through the Soot

When living in any big city,
The air might be sooty or gritty,
So many will lose
Their apartment’s nice views
Due to windows with grime – what a pity!

It’s cumbersome keeping them clean.
All New Yorkers will know what I mean;
For the sparkle I got
When I Windexed, will not,
By tomorrow, retain any sheen.

So my vistas are subtly skewed,
Since with

Categories: soot, new york,
Form: Limerick

Hunger Erosion My Feeling To Lamp Soot

It erosion my thought to Tyson bouts molded me to who I am today. Acid liquid rocks the precocious cockroaches disguising under the shade of table waiting to hit the night dinner. Sweeping smoke to mugs shape, water trickle wet my mustaches pointing to the sea, promising the land to germination, eggs aroma no iota

Categories: soot, beautiful, blessing, change,
Form: Ballad

Soot Happens

Tom Fowler was a chimney sweeper
who was also a window peeper.
Caught black-handed
folks demanded
Fowler be made a breathless sleeper.

Categories: soot, judgement,
Form: Limerick

Black Soot

Stranded on black soot in mood
Pile of dusts sight, forsaken by time
In the mangled maze, I glued
Grief finally tranquilized, honored as it should

Still, sense's writhing in a silent polemic
Steal the realities which still running
As was strolling in the haze of hallucinations
The bitter whispers through scratches and melts into dripping sores

Upon the night which had stolen
Astonished

Categories: soot, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Shook Soot

so what?i got fourty more before hitting the bed,at least its read.

Categories: soot, funny,
Form: ABC