#fiery
Who needs a cat with its smug, aloof stare,
when you can have a dragon
curled around your armchair?
No hairballs to gag on, no litter box smell
just scales that gleam like molten gold,
a roar that tolls like a dinner bell.
Picture this:
I’m walking my dragon down Main Street,
its tail swiping lampposts, its wings unfurled.
You’d cross the road, wouldn’t you?
No "Here, kitty, kitty" nonsense here
more like "Hey, don’t step on my dragon's tail,
unless you fancy a toasted rear."
Cats claw at your furniture,
but a dragon?
One good huff, and your boss is barbecue
promotion secured, no HR to sue.
And homework?
Gone in a puff of fiery breath,
like a snack too dry to chew.
Dragons don’t purr;
they rumble like thunderclouds,
a warning to the mailman
who thinks he’s brave.
Leave the package at the gate, sir
we’ll fetch it after he’s had his lunch break.
Forget scratching posts;
my dragon’s hobbies are practical:
lighting the grill for marshmallow feasts,
turning burglars to toast
(though they never get past the TV,
artfully left in his food bowl
how kind of them to step so close).hehe
Cats bring you mice as gifts,
but my dragon’s presents?
A flaming pile of junk mail,
your nosy neighbor’s fence,
and an accidental singe of the hedges.
The yard looks better scorched, anyway.
So go on, take your catnip, your bells,
and your feline "charm."
I’ll take a dragon with its fiery alarm.
Because when the world sees me astride my beast,
no one’s asking "Got a moment for Greenpeace?" No fella no time for that, have you met snappy.
Instead, it’s awe, it’s terror, it’s glory.
My dragon, my friend, my living story.
And while cats demand your undying affection
dragons? They burn your enemies.
No contest, no question.
Feb 14
Feb 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM UTC
The epitome of the poet
Is purple;
The warm red of the fire(ry desire);
The cool-blue-of-pain.
©2025Ellen Finn
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM UTC
I sit here and I think about what happened. The pain that I felt. The betrayal that flowed through my skin. Anger started to bubble, it started to burn until I became a living fire. The fire was unstoppable because I knew that I could overcome the world. The strength of this fire sparked my inner energy. It let me become someone that I had to always shove down deep inside the walls woven in my skin. The walls that took me a long time to build. Each day would go by and with it the energy and the time to build those fire proof walls. I built those walls because I knew that I would need them someday. I knew that I needed to be stronger than the fire I would build.
I had to experiment time after time and each time I did the fire burned too much. Then finally I did not care about the fire that burned within. I did not care that it ripped through my veins and filled up the rest of myself. It melted the walls and broke down all of my nerves until they were in submission not to feel anything. Not to feel pain, but only the fire that burned within, the fire that burned them.
Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM UTC
In bed I look at you
Wonder how you’re mine
Unrivaled magnificence
Support you always provide
I always feel at home cause
You’re soft like winter when the snow falls down
Gentle like the warmth, your
touch excites me it electrify, the
love gives me life.
Press upon my skin, your
cuddles brings me hope, love
you from the outside-in
Dear love you have
always been gracious
addictive bad habit of my love
fire and desire
in every way you are.
And all night I want to show you
and all night I’ll give you more
fire & desire
in every way you are.
Dec 7, 2022
Dec 7, 2022 at 12:49 AM UTC
Morning colors change
They change with the morning sun
The morning sun reigns
It's fiery beams
It's setting within the clouds
It's warmth coming through
Brian Hill - 2019 # 188
Jul 28, 2019
Jul 28, 2019 at 9:45 AM UTC
People fiddle with fire
And get mad when they sweat
Dose their bodies in oil
And play in the flame
Hell fire
But cries it burns
The fickle logic
Fascinating
I tell myself
I want to help
But can you help
Those who don't seek
Questions abound
Do I deserve
A fiery baptism
To build your
Throne on this pile of dirt
Jul 22, 2019
Jul 22, 2019 at 3:21 PM UTC
a poet's pen
with scarlet ink
paper thick
for blood to sink
roses fill
the empty space
while tears fill up
in the poet's place
these shadows offended
they tease and they taunt
petals fall
as the roses fought
their darling dear
their poet's fear
as the shadows were out for blood
a poet's own
to draw it from
skin pale like a rainy day
fiery hair
tangled in thorns
a poet's pen
in a poet's corpse
Jun 13, 2019
Jun 13, 2019 at 6:11 PM UTC
This smoke in my throat
The fire in my teeth
The wires of my bones
Slowly tugging at me
Withered webs of my eyes
Covet all that I see
The light from your skin
Meets the fall in my knees
The warmth of my breath
A glass guarantee
Tattered wind of my faith
Cast off with the sea
Mar 5, 2019
Mar 5, 2019 at 8:43 AM UTC
They'd look at my broken face,
cracked with sorrow, torn with anger,
Look at it, and tell me to smile.
Someday, I'd be a star to many,
a shining light, beautiful, graceful,
In the dark, dark sky.
I'd smile, willing the cracks to disappear,
Turning them around, so they're in my heart,
Hidden from sight and sympathy.
One star in billions, in the dark, dark sky.
Twinkling forever, graceful, beautiful.
I, I will be furious and blinding,
Powerful and fiery.
Not a star,
But a sun.
Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 11:14 AM UTC
Stick it in
Here we go
Round and round
You put your heart into me
But it is implanted now
Like a fist
Hard
I feel it
Fury and fiery
And can't escape it
You *******
I didn’t ask for this service
How do I unpay the time it took
For you to chisel this love into me
That is only falsely real
Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 11:01 PM UTC
Today, I hope you realize how much you are loved
And it sets off a spark inside of you that burns brighter each minute
A spark that turns into a fiery warmth from the inside out to warm your hands and melt your pain into a wax candle of memories
A fiery warmth that never goes out
Not even when floodwaters rise to your chest
Today, I hope you realize how much you are loved.
Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 9:55 AM UTC
He beholds
Then holds
First my thorns
Then my petals
Peels it off
Slowly
Smells, licks, and tastes
Feels it
How naked I am
With discontinuity
In the form of thorns
Pure and placid
Flawed and fabulous
That's my soul
And his love for me
Deep, fiery, hot, and
PASSIONATE
Jun 14, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM UTC
Will I ever;
Make it out;
Of this raging inferno;
Alive?
And well?
Is that possible?
I don't think it is.
The fire;
Of our passion;
Was too hot;
To not leave;
Several burns;
All over my skin.
Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 7:34 PM UTC
the one before you tried to heal my scars.
he always said
"baby, no one wants to buy damaged goods."
and i always nodded my head, kissed his cheek,
let him try and heal my scars so i would be
his perfect angel.
then you came along,
you encouraged me to leap under the fiery sun,
let my scars burn white hot like an angel's wings.
you always said
"baby, no one wants a carbon copy;
your scars make you the best kind of uniquely beautiful."
and although you may be gone now,
i will always remember to dance under the fiery sun
and let my scars burn white hot...
just like an angel's wings.
May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018 at 6:39 PM UTC
I escape this cloud of destruction with a different aura--
one of ruby moods and sapphire disposition.
I shine into this new threshold with desperate hope
and a thirst for diamonds.
What will this new hell endure?
The fiery pits of fashion
or the comforting waves of idleness?
Whether the weather,
hot or icy
my weak determination lies in the false promise
of an improved destiny.
Dec 6, 2017
Dec 6, 2017 at 9:36 PM UTC
I now know why you left me.
You like to be in control,
But you realised
My flames could not be tamed.
I was a fiery soul,
A force to be reckoned with
And you couldn’t handle me.
Oct 27, 2017
Oct 27, 2017 at 7:17 AM UTC
He was lake placid
Her shadow fell on water,
The lake is ablaze.
Apr 8, 2017
Apr 8, 2017 at 3:42 PM UTC
Fiery
Lady
She is brighter than the sun
Hotter 'cause she knows what she wants
Don't need men to get things done
'Cause fiery ladies are savants.
Try to harass her
She'll spit back flame
Call her a slur
She'll leave you with shame
No one can invade her
Without being scorched
She will never deter
'Cause she's a
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
Queen of the world
Gonna show it a thing or two
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
With hair straight or curled
She knows there's nothin' she can't do
Fiery Lady (Fiery)
Fiery Lady (Lady)
Fiery Lady (Fiery)
Fiery lady (Lady)
Magazines tryin' to fool girls (fool girls),
Tellin' 'em to change who they are.
Songs tryin' to exploit girls (exploit girls)
Pitying them cause they think scars mar.
But wounds are tales
Of fiery ladies;
Their trials, their trails,
Tests from Hades
But ladies don't care,
They always dare,
And each one's a
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
Queen of the World
Gonna show it a thing or two
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
With hair straight or curled
She knows there's nothin' she can't do
Fiery Lady (Fiery)
Fiery Lady (Lady)
Fiery Lady (Fiery)
Fiery lady (Lady)
Woah-oh-oh
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
Queen of the World
Gonna show it a thing or two
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
With hair straight or curled
She knows there's nothin' she can't do
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
Queen of the World
Gonna show it a thing or two
Fiery Lady (woo hoo)
With hair straight or curled
She knows there's nothin' she can't do
Fiery
Lady
Fiery
Lady
Feb 22, 2017
Feb 22, 2017 at 11:16 PM UTC
A fiery church in the world,
The flame within, quite a swirl,
The fire still flourishes,
Our souls it nourishes,
The word is spreading in the world,
Faith can heal, give it a whirl,
But you can be too religious, you see,
Let a fiery church heal humanity,
Let's have a peaceful dream,
Make peace, not war, it seems!
Jan 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017 at 9:50 PM UTC
Her leaving suited her
Better than her arrival,
Her returning
Better than her going.
Dec 15, 2016
Dec 15, 2016 at 11:37 PM UTC