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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Wildfire. You know I love you.

Passion enflames my desire to burn;

Then from ashes reclaim your heart anew.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wild! I love the phoenix aspect, very cool🖤

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Wildfire - I think you’re groovy

But I wanna know for sure…

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

You make my heart snap crackle pop. Embers glow.

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

(it’s hard to tell what induces the most horror - the prompt or this series of responses)

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ok reading these was a wild ride. Very much enjoyed it!

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Yes, it very much - ahem - caught fire.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Response burns the songs that get replayed. Memory fades but returns to haunt the mores most often thought disturbed with time flashes in the frying pan of years cracking eggs.

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Infernal furnaces pump out the dance of possession in Philadelphia, Brixton, the avenues of Carshalton Beaches, Chicago Subways. Your radio static charges urban edifice, beachfront, village skyline. Feel is the rhythm, remembrance the beat.

Burn baby burn

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Isn’t it a pity- doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Hey boogie brother soul train sister unhook the carriage we won’t stop - fire up these funky engines - our next station: disco town

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Back of my neck getting dirt and gritty. Hot down summer in the city.

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

(feel the heat)

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

I’m currently on a train. All around should be grateful I haven’t launched into an impromptu ocarina solo (not least because I don’t possess an ocarina!)

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

You can hum. Play with a rubber band renown for passing train times. No tickets needed for a ride. Go coach a passenger on the love train down the tracks clack clack. Next stop Chicago music.

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Yeah. You groove me.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Oldie in the groove until skips a beat

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

(Beat beat)

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

That the rhythm. Thanks for remembering wild thing…

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

Build your dream house in

The foothills. Look at the view!

And now it's on fire.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wildfires these days, don’t even care about your antique tea cup collection.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

"She ran, calling, WIIILLLLDFIIIRE..."

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Honeygloom's avatar

“Shhh, if you call it, it will come.”

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David Perlmutter's avatar

The "Wildfire" in the song is a horse, not a real wildfire.

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Honeygloom's avatar

😂 I believe a horse will also come if you call it.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Forest dry as tinder,

wind arid and insistent -

A hot look could ignite a conflagration.

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Honeygloom's avatar

This is so awesome, it’s got a noire feel for me and I love it.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks HG

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Distended fingers,

Bleached and curled, knuckle to nail:

These used to be trees

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Honeygloom's avatar

Awesome image! Have seen this many times and this just a great description🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Flame on, dearest heart

He will not look your way now

His chill builds your fire

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man! I love this take!

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Thanks! I like to see the symbolism in things, and flame often denotes strong passion.

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Thea Wood's avatar

Drunk, alone, and cold

Nodding while embers blow wide

Sparking trails of death

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Honeygloom's avatar

So dark and tragic, and probably close to the truth at times. Well done🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

Based on true story of a wildfire in Texas. Homeless man’s campfire started it.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wow, says so much about us as a society😞

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

A wall of fierce flames,

And flickering within them,

A glimpse of Hell's Gates... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo nice image!🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

They have such sights to show you! Haha... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Heck yeah, a little pyromancy 🔥

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