Challenge
Monthy Poetry Challenge for March.
Write a poem about a cleansing by fire, by any means: Beautiful, dirty, gritty, dark, fluffy... make it yours. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -Set it alight.
Rebirth
The lone red flame
Flickers incandescent
In the night
Burning, ravishing,
Until it stokes
The pain and darkness,
Caressing embers
Like an infant
Born of death.
Distraction provokes.
The pain eases,
Lingering, enveloping
The fire’s flame.
Heat beckons
With a game of chance.
Derived echoes
Of life and death
Threatening to consume.
The choice is but
A self-made dance.
Leaping, running,
Stumbling
Until you fall,
You refuse to be consumed
Within the flame.
Rising,
Prepared to live,
Prepared to fight
Another day,
Without laying any blame.
Leave yesterday
Behind
Burning in the flames.
The past is done.
The world
Will spin anew,
Tomorrow
Bringing respite,
Recharged energy
Of life renewed.
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