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The Fire Burns Aug 2019
Behind green-tinted lenses,
her blue eyes rolled,
inappropriate comments,
slid off summertime smiles.

Laughter and giggles,
water splashing,
Lemon La Croix *****
seasoning the afternoon.
The Fire Burns Aug 2019
muddy water hides
freckled skin reddened
multicolored cloth surrounding
The Fire Burns Jun 2019
The cooling tempest blows
puffy clouds canvasses,
kaleidoscopic color sprayed
by the suns fading light.
Cyclonic whirlwinds ******
the dust and debris,
twisting them
to their will,
giving them
the appearance of life
and the ability
to walk across the land
as if by witchcraft.
The Fire Burns Jun 2019
a system destroyed,
binary stars exploded,
fifty-two fragments now circle,
swirling mass of confusion,
no identification possible.

two dim points of light,
swallowed by nebulae,
fluidly moving red, orange, yellow, green,
smeared in blue, indigo and violet,
perfection now unbalanced.
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The Fire Burns Jun 2019
Email, Facebook, messages, and chats,
no one talks, typing is where it's at,
I just cleaned out my contact list,
wonder what that means I'll miss.
The Fire Burns Jun 2019
Back in the day,
memories made,
stored on film rolls
in their canisters shade.

Stamped dated and timed,
gps location stored,
we go back and look,
and quickly ignore.

No more waiting
for the pics that we took,
now simply post them,
straight to Facebook.

The nostalgia of old times,
rarely looked back,
nothing like those old photos
at moms, in books in a stack.

The memories remain,
yet little they mean,
stored in the cloud,
it's almost obscene.
The Fire Burns Jun 2019
It's hot on the tractor
the sun's beating down,
plowing my fields,
on the outskirts of town.

City girl pulls up
her lips are syrupy sweet,
brings me a jug,
say here have a drink.

I take a big ol' chug,
and I spit it right out,
she looks at me,
with a huge pout.

I looked at her,
and she looked at me,
I said,
You can put your sugar on my lips,
but keep it out of my tea.

But you're a plowboy,
isn't sweet what you drink,
I said that's what country music,
has taught you to think.

She walks on over,
presses her lips to mine,
I melt like candy,
man, that feels fine.

She looks up and says to me,
I guess you're not what you seem,
No, I'm much much better,
I say with a wink.

I looked at her,
and she looked at me,
I said,
You can put your sugar on my lips,
but keep it out of my tea.
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