A mythical bird from Greece that self immolates on an annual basis…
Your prompt is PHOENIX.
Smoldering Phoenix
Fiery resurrectionist
Wants to sit by you
…then rises anew from its own ashes.
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I would bag ashes
As a child believing they
Were phoenix droppings
I watched that fine bird burn to ash,
waited for the rebirth they foretold.
Only ash of incinerated hope wisped by wind away