Fire

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Decima Poetry Challenge

Fire

Late after dark city started burning
Unknown looters were running around
The people carried angry fire downtown
Hands up the crowds disappointment is churning.

Equal treatment is what they are yearning.
For too long resentment has been on hold!
For too long our stories been untold,
By men who have held power and great means.
Fire set in cities, the torch burns and cleans,
Fire burned injustice it’s our day, behold!

                                                               ©2020 cj holm

 

This is my first attempt at Decima Poetry. The rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc. Ronovan’s challenge was to use “Fire” in the “a” spot of the pattern. I cheated and used Fire as a topic. Decima poetry is brand new to me even though it is centuries old. (Sometimes it’s good to force a Swedish/German to learn new things.   Thank you Ronovan for the stretch!

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/06/03/decima-poetry-prompt-fire/

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Haiku/Senryu Challenge (1/13/20)

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 288 Smoulder / Subdued

fire

Wood smoulders and glows
as night time subdues the wind
-wolf cries for its’ home

                                                             -CJ Holm

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/01/13/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-288-smoulder-subdued/
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Fire’s Rapture

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: … A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance”

-Ecclesiastes 3

Listen as blue fire
Hisses with tips of gold flames
Dancing in the smoke

River of fire feeds the change
Restoring God’s forest floor

-Clarence Holm A Tanka