Day: January 21, 2023

Image by Vee Speers

 
Like a flash of startling color
like mystical midnight dreams
butterflies will materialize
from love’s pure heart it seems

like fragile fleeting fairies
this love-bound woman is the source
they flit and flutter dazzlingly
such a breathtaking tour de force

so frail and so diaphanous
such bold and brilliant wings
like true love they float on air
enchantingly beautiful things

they dart with such abandon
they dance more than they fly
so weightless — so very joyous
a lovers’s ballet in the sky

OH… don’t fret our lovely lady
she’s tucked tight and very comfy
she’s evolving in love’s chrysalis
to the butterfly she soon will be

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rob kistner © 2023

Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

Image by Jocelin Carmes

 
So inconceivable
he thought…

that such a structure
can be so wholly engulfed

the fire so fierce

but what of the fury
in that single first flame

to have leapt
so viciously
to consume

to ravage

to devastate
so absolutely

it is always there
the nature of fire

like the rage
of a violated being
too long held down

unjustly deprived

confined

all potential denied
where there is great potential

spirit squelched
where there is great spirit

sometimes
an entire people
can be denied

until finally
a single incident

a single first flame

unleashes a righteous inferno
that has no bounds

it is always there
the nature of fire

the power to combust

to blaze
so brilliantly

can only be suppressed
for so long

it is always there
the nature of fire

ready to explode

like the fury
in a single first flame

like the fury
in a suppressed people

and when the smolder
becomes full flame

all will burn

it is always there
the nature of fire

~ Ukraine will be released ~

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rob kistner © 2023

Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

More poetry at: dVerse