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.
LOVE POEM
Published
25th May 2023 5:31pm
25th May 2023 5:31pm
The Book of Corners
#LifeAsAWriter
#memories
#MovingOn
862 reads
25 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
16th May 2023 9:19pm
16th May 2023 9:19pm
What am I?
Light enwombed in darkness,
Light without heat,
World without gravity,
And when I am with you,
My shadow is more substantial than belief
I span hours in seconds,
Walk miles without feet,
And our trek together ends oft
Without memory,
At times, I gather fear,
Closer to the chest,
Than a heartbeat
At times I comfort those
Who grieve
Sometimes I tell
Truth, sometimes I
Deceive
What am I?
While you ponder it, let's catch up.
Hey,
So what brings you...
Light without heat,
World without gravity,
And when I am with you,
My shadow is more substantial than belief
I span hours in seconds,
Walk miles without feet,
And our trek together ends oft
Without memory,
At times, I gather fear,
Closer to the chest,
Than a heartbeat
At times I comfort those
Who grieve
Sometimes I tell
Truth, sometimes I
Deceive
What am I?
While you ponder it, let's catch up.
Hey,
So what brings you...
#universe
#LifeAsAWriter
#philosophical
311 reads
15 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
7th May 2023 7:33pm
7th May 2023 7:33pm
Memoriae: Aqua, Terra, Aer, Ignis (a collaboration)
Water breaks
its neck
falling over
stone gallows
We skimmed pebbles once
imagined they were small
submarines, drowning
We drowned a clipped crow
imagined he was a blued
cot death, rising
Hands touched as we twisted bracken
into effigies of the summer departed,
and it felt like love in a silent film
where eyes forage fingers for meaning
She suggested we become kite
-no strings attached-
the breeze was strong enough
to sink the darkest secrets
...
its neck
falling over
stone gallows
We skimmed pebbles once
imagined they were small
submarines, drowning
We drowned a clipped crow
imagined he was a blued
cot death, rising
Hands touched as we twisted bracken
into effigies of the summer departed,
and it felt like love in a silent film
where eyes forage fingers for meaning
She suggested we become kite
-no strings attached-
the breeze was strong enough
to sink the darkest secrets
...
#love
#friendship
#nature
#memories
#WritingPoetry
371 reads
22 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
26th Apr 2023 7:39pm
26th Apr 2023 7:39pm
The High Priestess, Mourgana (a tribute)
Watchtower, daughter of aster and loam
Through doors of inner heavens,
feathered sails
Drift on tide, luminesce
In quiet vision,
Through doors of night black
And foetal fecund earth
Cored sun, of aethered web
And starlight spun
Thread,
Into passages and portals,
Glyphed upon each fingerprint
Into this seers landscape
Gaea, leaf headed spear
Drawn back to crook
Of elbow, aligned in
Constellation of the doe,
This stringed tenor of
Soul, taut
As the voice of the winged
Bow,
Sister...
Through doors of inner heavens,
feathered sails
Drift on tide, luminesce
In quiet vision,
Through doors of night black
And foetal fecund earth
Cored sun, of aethered web
And starlight spun
Thread,
Into passages and portals,
Glyphed upon each fingerprint
Into this seers landscape
Gaea, leaf headed spear
Drawn back to crook
Of elbow, aligned in
Constellation of the doe,
This stringed tenor of
Soul, taut
As the voice of the winged
Bow,
Sister...
#friendship
#spiritual
#gratitude
#admiration
#wisdom
312 reads
25 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Mar 2023 8:15pm
26th Mar 2023 8:15pm
Salt
#love
#LifeAsAWriter
#memories
#LifeCycle
#admiration
584 reads
18 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Mar 2023 7:32pm
21st Mar 2023 7:32pm
The Absence of Magic
#love
#universe
#memories
#WritingPoetry
#LifeCycle
434 reads
23 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Feb 2023 1:57am
6th Feb 2023 1:57am
Absolem, the Caterpillar
#love
#universe
#nature
#God
#admiration
710 reads
47 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jan 2023 4:03pm
30th Jan 2023 4:03pm
Moth Halo
cloud assault
like lightning and lightning
like a box of chocolates
too much sugar in the blood
too much sugar in coffee
too many gods for faith
water falling from the sky
water falling from the sky
water that does not wait
to fall from the sky
water that doesn't stop to fall...
There were birds,
in my childhood days,
heard: swallows.
I remember them in the backyard
while he chewed what came to hand:
weeds.
Birds over my head when I was little.
I'm much older now
and the birds seem to have...
like lightning and lightning
like a box of chocolates
too much sugar in the blood
too much sugar in coffee
too many gods for faith
water falling from the sky
water falling from the sky
water that does not wait
to fall from the sky
water that doesn't stop to fall...
There were birds,
in my childhood days,
heard: swallows.
I remember them in the backyard
while he chewed what came to hand:
weeds.
Birds over my head when I was little.
I'm much older now
and the birds seem to have...
#love
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry #LifeCycle
#WritingPoetry #LifeCycle
571 reads
31 Comments
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
537 reads
29 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
503 reads
31 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
297 reads
18 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Jan 2023 5:20pm
8th Jan 2023 5:20pm
The Chariot
#love
#lust
#identity
#death
#honesty
483 reads
31 Comments
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