The Friday Fling Is On Fire Over Fire!
Friday Fling #236 for June14th 2013
Recent wildfires in California and Colorado brought to mind the many definitions of the word “fire.”
Besides the one involving flame, there is losing one’s job, getting excited (“all fired up”), and shooting.
This week our theme is any one or more of the definitions and uses of the word “fire.”
As an additional challenge, we are recommending you try to write your fire-related poem in one or more four line stanzas with the unusual ABba rhyme.
Such as:
Before the fireplace blazing bright
two lovers lit each other’s fire
Inhibition was fired as sire
so both sparkplugs could fire that night.
Copyright June 12th 2013 RGD
This week the Friday Fling Gets Fired Up Over Fire!
Be sure to save time to read and fire off a comment about your Fellow Pals’ poetry.
Then go find something to get fired up about this weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for June 7th
Congratulations Angel Love!
Welcome to the Friday Fling’s firefest! Pull up a definition and see where it takes your poetic muse in ABBA rhyme!
FIREY LOVE
~*~
When we first meet life waz so bright
Your love stirred my heart a fire
Spark were sure to sire
We so light up like sparklers in the night
~*~
Written By: Bettie Davis ———————————- © June 13 , 2o13
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WITHIN PASSIONATE FLAMES
Flames etched against the black of night,
dancing with a magic all their own,
ignite a passion within Loves’s heart and soul
as night journeys toward dawn and day’s first light.
In syncopated movements the flames wildly dance
punctuating the silence of this moonless night,
they sizzle and crackle and burn so very bright
as together two lovers meet within a brilliant trance.
And what was yesterday is gone forever,
fallen away with with frenzy of the night
as two hearts become one within flames so bright,
and bond forever within Love’s magical endeavor.
For the flames engendered by each passionate heart
within the night Love and Life renewed and resumed,
yesterday’s stresses and fears completely consumed
and through the fire of passion a new day and new start.
(c) barbara kausteklis 6-14-13
Congrats to Angel – much deserved!
This piece is kinda rough, but I had to come up with something for this challenge! 😆
Ember
In bare repose you quietly bathe in candlelight aglow,
your silky skin shimmers, newly washed and flush with twilight’s hue;
glinting sparks from tranquil eyes belie the fire inside of you:
a smolder nestled snugly in the cradle of passion’s flow.
Flickering light licks the walls where shadows rapturously dance
melding hearts establish a beat, a feat profoundly stirring;
without resolve inhibition dissolves, moral lines are blurring:
make the most of this seminal moment, ripe for fierce romance.
It’s a sordid affair when two souls collide, one always to remember,
an avid embrace time will not erase, and will not make it fairer;
we make our way out of dust and clay, ingredients for error:
it takes but a gaze to set the heart ablaze, for love, forever ember.
© Ted Meredith, June 2013