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.

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DanielChristensen
DARK POEM
Published
24th Mar 2020 2:42am

Is This Prescience

And all the mud brick houses have
Staring eyes,
Blinking in the haze of their mugwort
Billows,
Wafted with some
Religious pomp,
Toward the four
Corners

And the wind heralds a thousand
Clinical
Suicides
An hour,
 
Rounded up or down,
To a pleasingly
Symmetrical
Number
 
And the tattered flesh flag
Flails a prescription drug
Infomercial at the
Tidal arm,
Images of families
And foliage
And a pleasantly vapid
Disclaimer of
Collateral ...
 #death   #humankind   #consumerism   #nightmares   #fear 
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131 reads
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DanielChristensen
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Mar 2020 5:06am

This Soulless Metropolis

This Soulless Metropolis
 #family   #LifeAsAWriter   #memories   #addiction   #bittersweet 
208 reads
28 Comments
DanielChristensen
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Feb 2020 2:32am

For Ethan

A single, thin
Cloud
Draws
A lambent
Brow,
Across the
Moon

Empty bottles
Chitter
Before a barback's
Broom,
Echoing, somewhere,
Beyond
View

70's rock
Spills its
Bawdy
Throat,
Onto the
Avenues

Spirit,
In subtle,
Profound,
Frenetic
Vibration

I feel,
All around
And
Everything

Your open
Hand,
Reaching
Across
 #friendship   #admiration   #minimalist 
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203 reads
20 Comments
DanielChristensen
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Feb 2020 7:53am

God's Lunatic

God
 #birth   #universe   #humankind   #astronomy   #LifeCycle 
193 reads
18 Comments
DanielChristensen
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Jan 2020 7:54pm

The Animal of Infinite Imagination

The Animal of Infinite Imagination
 #strength   #science   #universe   #TruthOfLife   #myself 
229 reads
17 Comments
DanielChristensen
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Jan 2020 7:06am

Ataru

Ataru
 #friendship   #beauty   #abuse   #LifeStruggles   #myself 
318 reads
22 Comments
DanielChristensen
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Dec 2019 5:04am

Ex Nihilo

Ex Nihilo
 #loneliness   #confessional 
 #TruthOfLife   #philosophical 
431 reads
39 Comments
DanielChristensen
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Nov 2019 5:07pm

For Mira

It’s a funeral. It’s a loss. That’s why there are no words.

There’s nothing documented between  
Aardvark  
And  
Zyzzyva  
That can fill the void  
Of you  
In my life,
Nor frame
My utter
Devastation
 
Nothing  
That will unwound you, but  
The day is long and  
Boring, so  
I fucking dance,  
Kick up my  
Heels,  
Amidst  
The dim  
Procession  
 
I fuck stupid  
I, stupid fuck  
I, Exilis  
I fuck things up  
 
Hey,...
 #heartbroken   #confessional 
 #TruthOfLife   #IMissYou 
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398 reads
31 Comments
DanielChristensen
SELF POEM
Published
20th Oct 2019 8:24am

Self Portrait of a Poet in Midlife

Self Portrait of a Poet in Midlife
 #birthday   #confessional   #LifeAsAWriter   #myself   #aging 
416 reads
27 Comments
DanielChristensen
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Oct 2019 8:47pm

Of Breath and Light

Of Breath and Light
 #trees   #river   #sea   #sky   #nature 
352 reads
20 Comments
DanielChristensen
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Oct 2019 6:24pm

Of the Eaters

Of the Eaters
 #conflict   #LifeStruggles   #humankind 
296 reads
18 Comments
DanielChristensen
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Sep 2019 5:53pm

How to Seek God (and Where to Find Him)

How to Seek God (and Where to Find Him)
 #LifeStruggles   #religion   #faith   #TruthOfLife   #CallToAction 
364 reads
14 Comments
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