#ash poems on Hello Poetry

CautiousRain Aug 2018

Light

Light me up
Burn my remains
Leave my memories to turn
To ash in the forest
Remind the others
To stay away.

please

#vent #venting #ash #burn #light #me #up

Tanaya Aug 2018

Flames

Flames.
Flames result in something burning into ashes.
The stronger ones, that resist, are not saved from the effects either.
                                                                                             They blacken.

And when a fire and passion as strong as ours burns out, one of us is going to be reduced to ashes and the other one is going to carry the weight of the darkest heart around.

I strive to keep us ablaze because somewhere I know that the pain of being reduced to nothingness is much lesser than carrying around a broken piece of what once was.

                                                                                Burnt from all sides.

And I know that I'm the one who's going to resist.
                                                                                                  Oh, I fear.

This particular musing is the closest to my heart,
Because it's four years since I wrote it first,
And now my hands are covered in soot.

#flames #ashes #ash #fire #soot #coal #broken #blacken #burnt #dark

MicMag Aug 2018

Volcano

.
              (  (  growing gray cloud of smoke and ash  ) )
              (  (  expanding mass of poisonous gas  ) )
                         (  ( billowing upwards into the air ) )           a
                            (  (    dark    omen    of    )  )                    s
                                 (  (      despair      )   )                         h
      (    \           //    )
                                       (   \        //   )                                 g
                                           (  \     //  )                                     e
                                              \\\  /////                                        n
                                                \\\/////                                           t
                                         the                                                     l
                                    peak's        top                                    y
exploding     right off
                       glacial snows melting down                       f
                     lava flows heading for the town                     a
                   terror! destruction! fright erupting out                   l
               extinct beast awakens, roaring primal shout                  l
           mountain trembling, earth shaking, people quaking           s
       in fear and wonder, transfixed by summit torn asunder
fire and fury blend with the sky as we flee and ponder why
we await this rage from the earth but the beauty makes it worth
all the deadly risks we know we face in living at this volcano's base

I recently visited some stunning towns
sitting at the base of active volcanoes.

I was left contemplating this tension
between the beauty and potential carnage.

(This one doesn't seem to look quite right on a phone.
Try it with a rotated screen.)

#volcano #fire #fury #ash #lava #terror #danger #beauty

Donovan G Loman Aug 2018

Burnt

My insides are burning,
my heart has turned to ash.
The wreckage of an *****
that has been broken at last.

#heart #fire #ash #burnt

Qwn Jul 2018

Forgotten Blue Flames

Ashes cover the ground where we once used to sleep,
I went back there and burned every memory I keep.
Like how people said our eyes are the same blue colour,
And how I used to argue that yours were brighter. (you never believed me)
They've changed in your pictures,
Like a broken scripture.
They now look dull,
Hollowed out holes in your skull.
Their brilliant glow lost,
As if you sold them, not caring the cost.
Mine echo the blue flames they've seen swallow everything they love.
Mine watched your blue wash all my joy like the rain above.

I know you've forgotten our dull blue,
But I will remember you.

prologue to 'I Swear It Was You'

#blue #flame #fire #burn #eyes #love #forget #remember #dull #ash

Özcan Sh Jul 2018

I turned to ash

Flame in my heart
Air in my chest
Your water drips on me
I turned to ash
But did not stop glowing
Because my flame
Will come back again.

#dailypoem #poetry #poem #fire #air #water #fight #strong #ash

Payton Hayes Jun 2018

Black Bones

Twisting and turning,
inside I am burning
blackened bones all smeared with ash,
and soot,
and along the edges tinged with yearning.

You were my air, I was your fire
and I was consumed with desire
a longing for you burned me up
like wood,
and the smoke kept on rising, higher.

Stole my breath away with a smile
and your colored wings, all the while
I stood
so very still, but my heart was beating wild.

The suffocating wind was roaring
for your love it was imploring
it would
have been the death of me,
but with you, I am forever soaring.

#blackbones #bones #love #romantic #yearning #ash #suffocating #tinged #smoke

Danielle Jun 2018

Stolen

Searing tears,
Rubbing-sore hands,
Pounding drum headache,
Red eyes,
Lips and cheeks inflamed.
The embers burn,
Laying forgotten amongst
Dull gray ashes.
Shimmering smoke
Leaches away tenderness,
And slowly,
Oh so slowly,
Steal my soul as it rises.

******* sick of boyfriends who smoke cigarettes. Just done with it.

#relationship #******* #smoking #donewithit #fuckthem #heat #smoke #ash #steal #stolen