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Stoke Poems - Poems about Stoke


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Consumed by their anger, the flames they stoke. They blame and defame, label others as "woke". The pugnacious pen only aims to provoke.....

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Categories: stoke, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member forgetting to stoke the fire
In winters coldness I awake chilled by the thought that my fire went out...

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Categories: stoke, winter,
Form: Haiku



To stoke the flame of love
I still recall, unfolding before me, The scene awash with silvery moonlight, The night that blessed our love of a first sight, How fateful was the night that helped us be, The moon when seemed super, superb its light, And still can make no one’s life just as bright. Like moon’s phase we changed, oft to disagree— More often...

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Categories: stoke, love, moon, remember,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When Deniers Stoke the Fires
When we start off one rarely realizes all the true scientific downstream consequences of our original acts When we hear the key click in the car's ignition we know it revs up the entirety of the auto industry complex When we go out to the grocery and we pick up dozens of pretty plastic packages this vaults the massive merchandise market forward When deniers proudly posit Climate Change is cyclical and can...

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Categories: stoke, change, environment, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Fire Stoke Until Badly Broke
fire we must stoke until became badly broke out from sand head poke they elicited what is to be conflicted became afflicted when we have been good was God who would make us good making me feel good Jesus in crib laid God wind and waves had obeyed great world for me He made had been notified that her death was verified the I cried and cried God gave...

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Categories: stoke, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku



Morning, From the Hill At the Little Stoke Turning
Streetlight buttercups Cluster in the big city cloud. Morning hungry bear, a great grey sloucher, Frowning at the houses, scratches at the walls. A plague of raindrops plunges down, Cruel and malevolent, pecking at people and cars. Out of the misty dampness, umbrellas grow quickly, And small children float by....

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Categories: stoke, autumn, imagery, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Every Season Changes
The asphalt driveway is blackened over by rain sand bags lie in the corner of the garage in case water creeps in, some sheep scurry in distant fields Your elephant eyes are locked on the TV; 55 inches of electronic love I liked lying under the moonlight on summer nights as moths danced towards the patio...

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Categories: stoke, angst, animal, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Narrative
Trump Fire Stoke
Trump Fire Stoke Found that Trump another fire did stoke; Burned up things until people were broke; Then died; They cried; In swamp, he had caused frogs to croak. Jim Horn...

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Categories: stoke, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Simple Stoke
Tis so sweet to slip the bonds of Earth to race on back of foam and spray, to glide in stride on crafted board, to run out the bestial fray!...

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Categories: stoke, addiction, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Tend and Stoke
stir the ash breathe life unto the glowing ember tend and stoke this heart come closer to warm stretch your hands to the heat stoke the embers to this heart breathe life into this love...

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Categories: stoke, lovelife,
Form: Free verse

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