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Jul 2013 · 1.0k
untitled tanka
Chase Fire Jul 2013
dandelion fuzz
floating through
my fingers
I touch someone else's
dream
Jul 2013 · 763
my new notebook (tanka)
Chase Fire Jul 2013
in a candlelit forest
I sketch the faces
of ancient trees...
my new notebook
already haunted
Jul 2013 · 2.5k
graffiti (tanka)
Chase Fire Jul 2013
reading graffiti
on the walls of our old house—
how easily
the rain washed away
my childhood chalk art
Jun 2013 · 762
falling asleep
Chase Fire Jun 2013
falling asleep
under a soft blanket
of nightmares,
stitched together
by pale fairies
with black wings…
tuck me in
you sweet, skinny
sylphs…
you weavers of my screams
that only come
stitched in the seems
of these cold, twisted dreams
that you cover me with
Jun 2013 · 1.4k
gargoyles
Chase Fire Jun 2013
gargoyles perched
on the hidden ledges of my dreams,
stalking nightmares

Published in my new Ebook!

http://www.bookemon.com/book-profile/three-line-poems-to-read-in-the-dark/289541
May 2013 · 1.1k
the rain whispers (a 575)
Chase Fire May 2013
the rain whispers poems
in a forgotten language…
puddles still ripple
May 2013 · 614
veins of frost
Chase Fire May 2013
veins of frost pulsing
on the bloodless face of night...
his ghost in my dreams
Published in Dark Poetry
May 2013 · 2.3k
haunted sandcastles (haiku)
Chase Fire May 2013
sandcastles haunted
by the ghosts of ancient *****—
moon-pulled tides whisper
Chase Fire May 2013
the souls of dead prayers
shed their hope like kneeling ghosts
framed against black rock
May 2013 · 1.1k
voices (haiku)
Chase Fire May 2013
cold September dew
shaking beneath the thunder…
remembered voices
http://www.darkpens.com/
May 2013 · 806
tangled
Chase Fire May 2013
remembering her voice—
the shape of ancient winds
tangled in the canopy
of my mind
May 2013 · 818
the scythe
Chase Fire May 2013
the sickle moon scythes
through clouds wrinkled by old age...
starlit souls escape
May 2013 · 1.8k
the dead moon's silhouette
Chase Fire May 2013
the dead moon's silhouette
stares through the window of night;
its breath chills the glass
May 2013 · 922
the depth of the galaxy
Chase Fire May 2013
night fishing
in a starlit creek;
the depth of the galaxy
at my ankles
May 2013 · 1.1k
a cold galaxy
Chase Fire May 2013
snowflakes spin
around the tip of my cigarette
a cold galaxy
at the edge of my breath

(published in Dark Pens issue 1)

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