Fire Song

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Softouch911
Softouch911
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Fire Song

(A tone poem for M.J.)


1
Starting to dream,
the child hums what you sang to him
in firelight.

2
Giants chant dirges in icy surf.
A strange city is burning far off.
You think everything is your fault.

3
In the dark, I believe
the rhythm of your breath.
The fire of music is love at the core.

4
Past our curtains
jets blink red, red, and criss-cross
in slow music,

5
a percussion of dreams
as the woodstove cools downstairs,
cracking steel deep in our house.

6
The less of love is only the less of more.
A cold wind
rattles the lantern door. The bulb flickers.

7
The fact is, we know time flies slow
when it is a songbird
skimming down tunnels of dark fire.

8
I hold your face while you talk
about orange sun,
you are a birdsong, but not always.

9
A leaf when it falls
is music you said,
and I’ve learned to hear its smoke rise.

10
You hold me back, laughing,
because I sing like a toad in tight shorts.
No one else knows this.

11
You will explain I exaggerate
song and fire, that we both know
love is less, love is more.

12
Each day has its little hours
when you save me, fire and ash,
from the cowardice of survival.

13
You hold me like a child
before deep fire, lit again and again
with music.

Softouch911
Softouch911
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ElizabethWestElizabethWestalmost 19 years ago
Touching

Very moving.

"In the dark, I believe

the rhythm of your breath."

*sigh*

AnonymousAnonymousabout 19 years ago
Very Nice

hi, I liked your poem.

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