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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
Ended March 1, 2021 • 32 Entries • Created by Poetnope
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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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Ata in Poetry & Free Verse
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Fire

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Fire burning bright

Light my path tonight

Dying in the wind

Light begins to thin

Fire, flickering flame

Guide me all the same

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Fire burning bright

Light my path tonight

Flickering in the cold

Will you share your soul?

The coals are burning blue

If you die I will die too

No more breath to shout

Fuel is running out

Lost beneath the wind

Never found again

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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thisisit in Poetry & Free Verse
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flames

I put a candle on my cake

and watched my new age

burn clean, flames that

swallow oxygen to protest

what has become of me

a rapid orange, licking

the air in an attempt to

show me where my soul

will end up if I'm not careful

burning down, the wax

a powerful testament

to what is melting

me from the inside out

a darkness remains,

reminding us

of when we laughed

into pastry that eventually

melts away after so many flames

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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Heartprints in Poetry & Free Verse
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starfire

our love,

the sun turned

red giant.

expands

to consume

all in its path.

Mercury and Venus,

lost forever.

as our desire

burns its last bit

of fuel.

collapsing

into a dense

white dwarf,

devoid of fusion.

the memory of us,

a luminescent reminder

of what was.

and they wonder,

at our glow.

the final

evolutionary state

of us all,

even starfire ends.

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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Rhyme-Times
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Huckleberry_Hoo

Love Light

On tippy-toes she gleams and throws

her shade on shadowy spots.

Tied to a rope, she holds out hope

of rampantly running a-mock.

Dancing til then, she twirls and she bends

with silhouettes grotesquely tall,

who follow her leads, their elbows and knees,

herky-jerking the wall.

And she fills the room with waxy perfumes

as she sweats in her heated light;

cinnamon sticks and licorice whips

for the lovers who lit her’s delight.

They’re lying in knots, their energies shot

while she burns herself to the wick.

So, if they want her moods at their next rendevous

they had better blow her out quick.

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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MariAntoinette in Poetry & Free Verse
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orange flicker, kiss the breeze

your playful dance contained, not free

conflagration melt the trees

your ravaging flight gives death no leave

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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SharondaBriggs in Poetry & Free Verse
49 reads

Fire Up

One flint you are lit.

Candles flickering bit by bit.

A warmth given on the coldest night.

An oven used for heat is a poverty fright.

Wood in a fireplace is a cold man’s dream.

An alarm to watch over it protects a young child’s scream.

A leader that could guide us through the darkest night.

A street light bulb in Paris, upright.

A cook's way to make a delicious meal.

Shows us that fire is power and oh so real.

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
Pauli187 in Poetry & Free Verse
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golden shine

silent night

on the roof

up above

every house

take me home

grey and close

a candles flame

i watched them

go to bed

take me home

& the silent night

shines so bright

up above

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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xCalypso in Poetry & Free Verse
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everything I do is wrong

I lit a match so I could see,

Blew it out from the heat

threatening to burn my fingertips

I lit a match to keep warm,

Blew it out from the heat

threatening to take me with it

I lit a match to throw at you

Blew it out from the heat

threatening loneliness

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
Poetnope in Poetry & Free Verse
58 reads

Fire

The human soul is like a fire

Starts as just a flare

Grows very quickly

Burning hot with air

Glowing through every crack

Lighting up the world 

Sometimes flaring, or flickering out

Or outshining those around

burning the logs underneath

’Till there is nothing left

Except ashes and grief 

And sometimes a sense of respect

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Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
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milu in Poetry & Free Verse
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f i r e f i g h t e r s

still hear the cracking noises

& see the blazing flames,

we know parts have burned down

& that it’s not the same,

but we’re the

fire survivors,

& we’re the

f i r e f i g h t e r s,

& i believe in a god

who wants us

to make the plans for our lives

& to be our very own

saviors sometimes.

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