Through fire was I born ~
through fire I live~
through fire shall I die~
through fire shall I rise:
I am a fire-builder
and knew how to stack sticks,
form bones of big booms,
collect cinders that still glowed
and keep thme slowly simmering
to hold me warm through rough weather;
I am rising sun wise
enough to know there is some place to shine,
to lick good green earth
with thirsty tongue
in order to quench my need to burn;
I am noon-shine nice
and solar eclipse’s gather
roiling dark and angry
or hopeful in my heat
behind deep strata of cumulus clouds;
I am an ice-radiant reflection
squint-eyed blind but bent
to fracture into multitudes of fine fragments
of a hope that will feed itself.
Come, share this unhalting heat of hope,
white stone of sweat lodge fire,
earth’s hot core beneath a dark circumstance
ready to burst into being
again and again.
Through fire was I born ~
through fire I live~
through fire shall I die~
through fire shall I rise!
Author notes
prompt: b. ) hope..share with me your beautiful dream for the coming year in poetic fashion with imagery to make me feel the beauty of tomorrow's new radiance.
In a list
A contest entry
- Exhale.......& Embrace a New Year... by poet2angels.
700 points, ended January 1, 11 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Roll your flame through winter window,
steam to raise my clouds of mystery,
as tracks grow strongers burn to windsong
the need to lnow and carry on
such a brush of Nature brands you soul to mountain's secret
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Thank you, my friend. such stanza I adore!
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oh my...This warms me and makes me feel like dancing in the new year around a fire reaching my arms to Heaven's most high...What a spiritual burst of hope and awakening...This made my morning as the rays of sun peek in from my Texas sky...Thank you for this splendid entry!
Lynda
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ty, friend....the moment I saw the contest...it started an immediate stream. I lvoe when I am inspired so! ty.
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