Posts tagged with "flame"

Hungry Gods

Hungry Gods

Sonnet — Daily Poetry to The Master of Works

June 23, 2022

Hard is the day when the altars go empty,No bright flame lights up Thy seated visage,Nor flowers and

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Make Me Not

Make Me Not

Sonnet — An Invocation to the Master

March 10, 2022

Oh make me not an empty flame mere glowingLike some pale pointless star on the firmamentFor what use

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A Lamp

A Lamp

Sonnet-An Invocation to the Master

February 10, 2022

The stain of soot on a lamp spentMirrors my grime earned in deeds,The charred residue of a wick burn

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Human Stain

Human Stain

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

January 10, 2022

Long have I been a lamp by means human,My body a malformed cup of earthly clay,The wick from thought

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Sum & Unit

Sum & Unit

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

November 25, 2021

I am the lute abandoned, the lyre unplayed,My ode burdened heart lies long unsung,A troop of hymns w

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When All Is Said

When All Is Said

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

September 12, 2021

Am I ripe yet, body a richly tangled vineClimbing assiduously from soil by clinging branch,Clusters

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Now And Hereafter

Now And Hereafter

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master

June 23, 2021

How many fires my mind has lit,Vacillations endured by will and grit?How many have flamed and passed

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I Have

I Have

Poem

December 17, 2020

I have rowed the strange seas of melancholyFriended only by the steady moaning oar,Drifting and circ

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The Imps

The Imps

Poem

December 10, 2020

Such a splendid haul did I reel inBy a musing net in my being cast,In few moments the tug was feltDu

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O Reverent-Flame

O Reverent-Flame

Sonnet

October 21, 2020

A bonfire blaze burns away my dross,Howling and writhing arise the instincts gross.All the greys and

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Lamps

Lamps

Sonnet

September 15, 2020

At the downing hour of the crimson curtains of dusk,When the flaming sky-torch renews its quest to s

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O Flame, O Guardian

O Flame, O Guardian

A Sonnet

April 30, 2019

An Archmason is at work in my being.By each brick of being now dismantled,Comes down each nature cra

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Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra

A Sonnet

April 22, 2019

There is a perennial Kurukshetra within,And legions of falsehoods arrayed about.In each moment a new

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O Fire

O Fire

A Sonnet

October 13, 2018

Hush now feeble flame I shall feed thee yetHere are my desires and all I did beget.Thou must devour

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