Challenge
Fire
short poems about fire, flames, candles, sparks, burning etc. must be clean, and child safe.
Life
Fire is alive
An alien organism
It’s been around longer than we have
It’s life is usually short
It reaches out to see what it can touch
Flickering and feeling
Like the serpents tongue It tastes the air
It is warmth and light
We may not caress to express our gratitude
Instead we create great monuments
machines of metal or rust
It birthed our world as we know it
And yet we still have no depth in our understanding
We do not understand it’s purpose or afterlife
Only two phrase from its dialect
Swallow and burn
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