{"id":99723,"date":"2012-11-11T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/99723\/poem-hillfire\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T01:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:15:26","slug":"poem-hillfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/99723\/poem-hillfire\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: Hillfire and A Worm To The Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the featured image on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge.<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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HILLFIRE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The scorched hillside beareth not
\nwhat the melted candle got.
\nFlame retardant neither was.
\nQuiet now, no earthly buzz.
\nBurned away all surface fuzz.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Love consummated and consumed.
\nLife just as the wax was doomed.
\nMoss and peat glowed the ground red,
\nsignifying all was dead;
\nsanitizing nature’s bed.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The Devil’s Revel Juggernaut
\nerased the face of what was caught
\nin the path, a deadly swath
\ncharred remains exuding goth
\nashes float on winds like moth.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Only river had the power
\nto halt expansion of Death’s bower.
\nFinal sizzling embers swept
\nby swollen rushing waters kept
\nas Mother Nature loudly wept.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Years of handiwork destroyed
\nby such heat as none enjoyed.
\nA lesson learned? So hard to tell.
\nLifecycle au naturel,
\nOr a taste of living Hell?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Inspired by the artpiece “Tree Line” by Nancy Eckels<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Title and Text Copyright November 11th 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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A WORM TO THE WISE<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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When they landed on Space Place Grotto,
\nat first they thought they’d won the Lotto.
\nScenery exhilarating;
\nattractive mutant worms for mating.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But the surface was deceiving.
\nThere soon was giant Redworm heaving.
\nThe odor was so nauseating!
\nA big turnoff to Redworm dating.<\/p>\n

Yet worst of all, they found in time,
\nwere the lakes of grimy slime.
\nIrresistible to worms,
\nbut so corrosive to their derms.<\/p>\n

Redworm skins got even redder,
\nwhich made worm dating even deader,
\nuntil invaders’ doom was sealed.
\nTheir huge red bodies shown, congealed,
\non slime lake surfaces afield.<\/p>\n

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The native worms were disappointed.
\nNo Prom queen would be anointed.
\nAll their dates were too petrified.
\nNot scared to death, just dead inside.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Inspired by the artpiece “Tree Line” by Nancy Eckels<\/font>
\n Title and Text Copyright November 11th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the featured image on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge. HILLFIRE The scorched hillside beareth not what the melted candle got. Flame retardant neither was. Quiet now, no earthly buzz. Burned away all surface fuzz. Love consummated and consumed. Life just as the wax was doomed. Moss and peat glowed the ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}