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They run 'em nights burning flames
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Dating back to the time of our ancestors. Let's sit around the fire.


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They run 'em nights burning flames

Around the evening fire that long owned fame

With the trepidation of light escaping shadows

Shooting sparks the horizon adores

 

Wood bundles riding onto heads of maids

To light the flame that vacuum the thoughts for beds

With the twilight that doth with them come

They run 'em nights burning flames

 

A ring of skins make the light waves out phase

With the jealousy winds that whine to stop the blaze

Like a pilot flames run 'em nights

A small version of what daily brights

 

Tales diffuse through the smoke that gossip

High knees, mouths welcoming a jar that settles on the bottom lip

For with the glow, darkness fulfils none of its aims

As they run 'em nights burning flames.


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 Reviews of "They run 'em nights burning flames"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on June 7, 2014
So poetic as to be incomprehensible at points. But from the critics standpoint, sure to win awards for its esoteric qualities that I'm not capable of.



I just enjoy the campfire, burning my front with a chill wind on my back. I can't imagine the countless generations that only had this warmth and protection in the cold and dangerous night. It always brings chills when I think of it, and how they survived to be me… So far removed from that primitive way of life for thousands of years.



Ron

Reviewed by audrine max
Reviewed on June 6, 2014
ahh.. lovely. i especially liked the ending.

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on June 6, 2014
I like the rhythm and the mood your poem sets.
I don't understand your culture well enough to grasp the setting.
But you are well on your way to a future with poetry that few of us will ever know.

Reviewed on June 6, 2014
Wonderful! I've always liked those campfire atmosphere.

Sandie


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