Submissions by DanielChristensen (The Fire Elemental)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
In the beginning, there was flame and the pain of not knowing why we burn.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Jan 2023 3:49pm
17th Jan 2023 3:49pm
The Compass Points
Suddenly you find yourself
Wide open to your absence,
As the empty barrels in a half-loaded revolver
They dressed you in a hippie shawl
(Jesus fuck) even flowers in your hair,
Turned on, tuned in, dropped out
Into dream of desolate streets Millennium
Whored myself to your eulogy
‘memories will remain in the grass and rain,'
Just wanted to shake you awake and slap you
Sing you the latest Morrissey song
Was the rope your final joke
As you just hated hanging around
Cavernous low
Come speak to me in the...
Wide open to your absence,
As the empty barrels in a half-loaded revolver
They dressed you in a hippie shawl
(Jesus fuck) even flowers in your hair,
Turned on, tuned in, dropped out
Into dream of desolate streets Millennium
Whored myself to your eulogy
‘memories will remain in the grass and rain,'
Just wanted to shake you awake and slap you
Sing you the latest Morrissey song
Was the rope your final joke
As you just hated hanging around
Cavernous low
Come speak to me in the...
#love
#relationships
#death
#LifeAsAWriter
#collaboration
137 reads
27 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Jan 2023 10:00pm
13th Jan 2023 10:00pm
Rite of the Totem
Sunlight mottled sheen on a borrowed car,
I drove to fetch your mouth to mine,
No longer exists, having fired back
From beds of earthen berm and out
Into the cosmos of colors and ice
Tails trailing a torpedo of rock, your
Eyes burning with lust premeditation,
Affixed to me with newness of
Adoration, no longer exist,
They have pressed out ten thousand
Layers of film, as years of sand and wind
Scoured away their gilding, into a face of
Untold seasons we have not
Shared, your arms have shed
Skin after skin into...
I drove to fetch your mouth to mine,
No longer exists, having fired back
From beds of earthen berm and out
Into the cosmos of colors and ice
Tails trailing a torpedo of rock, your
Eyes burning with lust premeditation,
Affixed to me with newness of
Adoration, no longer exist,
They have pressed out ten thousand
Layers of film, as years of sand and wind
Scoured away their gilding, into a face of
Untold seasons we have not
Shared, your arms have shed
Skin after skin into...
#love
#relationships
#universe
#LifeAsAWriter
#memories
195 reads
29 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Jan 2023 3:53pm
11th Jan 2023 3:53pm
Hey diddle diddle..
.Instead of a New Year's resolution, how about a New Year's riddle!?
In this body,
That you and I,
Reciprocally share,
I am the most vital organ,
And yet,
When breached,
The most difficult to repair.
What am I?
In this body,
That you and I,
Reciprocally share,
I am the most vital organ,
And yet,
When breached,
The most difficult to repair.
What am I?
#mystery
116 reads
18 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Jan 2023 5:20pm
8th Jan 2023 5:20pm
The Chariot
#love
#lust
#identity
#death
#honesty
191 reads
31 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Dec 2022 5:59am
15th Dec 2022 5:59am
December
#friendship
#winter
#support
#admiration
#respect
268 reads
23 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Oct 2022 9:11pm
21st Oct 2022 9:11pm
Untitled 10.21.22
The fire lights lashes raise halos over my windows,
Horizons loom with memories,
Quiet gaze,
Palms outstretched,
Lines and troughs,
Emptied spaces where bones fall to dust.
And into these blank line hollow points,
I'll place the shattered glass,
My voice has ripped by tide,
Belts of kaleidoscopic tremor,
And all the cavalcades of spectres,
That cry in my crowded house.
Horizons loom with memories,
Quiet gaze,
Palms outstretched,
Lines and troughs,
Emptied spaces where bones fall to dust.
And into these blank line hollow points,
I'll place the shattered glass,
My voice has ripped by tide,
Belts of kaleidoscopic tremor,
And all the cavalcades of spectres,
That cry in my crowded house.
#love
#memories
260 reads
19 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
6th Oct 2022 3:01pm
6th Oct 2022 3:01pm
disaster # 4673
Ceilings and walls of tenuous sleep
Blankets are a thin
Membrane
Against the noise
And the chaos
And the cold
Yesterday, sunlight and commercial
Music at the mall, where
Those of disposable means are
Casually tossing coins,
To the metallic yap of a
Plastic toy dog
I see them,
Groomed and adorned,
Having learned and strove
Through the capitalist systemic
Calculus
Of have and wont and woe,
I admire them
That perseverance,
That sharp toothed priority
Of self and those whose well...
Blankets are a thin
Membrane
Against the noise
And the chaos
And the cold
Yesterday, sunlight and commercial
Music at the mall, where
Those of disposable means are
Casually tossing coins,
To the metallic yap of a
Plastic toy dog
I see them,
Groomed and adorned,
Having learned and strove
Through the capitalist systemic
Calculus
Of have and wont and woe,
I admire them
That perseverance,
That sharp toothed priority
Of self and those whose well...
#anxiety
#family
#LifeStruggles
#home
#LifeChangingMoment
265 reads
12 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Sep 2022 5:06pm
1st Sep 2022 5:06pm
Staccato
#love
#grief
#universe #illness
#universe #illness
424 reads
22 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th May 2022 8:54pm
28th May 2022 8:54pm
Untitled, a lament
#love
#LifeStruggles
#memories
#illness
#LifeCycle
733 reads
34 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Dec 2021 8:14pm
24th Dec 2021 8:14pm
From Typhon to Echidna
I love the sweeping long lines, haze, mist
Diffusing the whole,
And soft wake of shadows
And to see myself
In you
I love the smooth arcs of your
Violence,
Deep swathes, curvatures,
Both metallic
And soft
I love you to contradictions
As the train calls me
To leave,
With its mournful klaxon
I recall,
I never feel
So acutely alone
As when I travel,
I suppose,
The protection of the familiar
Is stripped away,
Baring the soul
In all it’s terrible...
Diffusing the whole,
And soft wake of shadows
And to see myself
In you
I love the smooth arcs of your
Violence,
Deep swathes, curvatures,
Both metallic
And soft
I love you to contradictions
As the train calls me
To leave,
With its mournful klaxon
I recall,
I never feel
So acutely alone
As when I travel,
I suppose,
The protection of the familiar
Is stripped away,
Baring the soul
In all it’s terrible...
#love
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#art
#admiration
707 reads
23 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Sep 2021 4:28am
26th Sep 2021 4:28am
Ginsberg, NY
#love
#family
#America
#memories
#healing
555 reads
31 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Mar 2021 3:24am
26th Mar 2021 3:24am
Chiaroscuro
#love
#universe
#memories
#astronomy
#MovingOn
890 reads
37 Comments
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