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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

I would bag ashes

As a child believing they

Were phoenix droppings

Honeygloom's avatar

😅Hey we all do weird things when we’re kids. Does bring up an interesting question, just how do they procreate?

Honeygloom's avatar

Copulatory immolation is a huge problem.

Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Ah, the flame of passion! La petite mort.

A.P. Murphy's avatar

I watched that fine bird burn to ash,

waited for the rebirth they foretold.

Only ash of incinerated hope wisped by wind away

Honeygloom's avatar

I love this, I always wondered what would happen if the ashes got scattered🖤

A.P. Murphy's avatar

Answer = nothing

Honeygloom's avatar

Or maybe a bunch of small, incomplete phoenixes…

K.M. Bennett's avatar

Or, like, what if it results in thousands of small, scattered everyday miracles and nobody knows where they come from 🥺. Rejuvinating each life that breathes the ashes just a little. Now it has veered away from horror though and into a fairy tale...

Honeygloom's avatar

You are a blessed creature. I um… would never have thought of anything so lovely😅

K.M. Bennett's avatar

Haha!! Part unicorn fan part horror writer 🦄

Dylan Delgado's avatar

From pure chaos

To unfettered flight

A beautiful bird

Heads skybound now.

Honeygloom's avatar

What a beautiful image! And chaos to creation is such a great concept🖤

Thea Wood's avatar

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust, but as for me?

I’m risen, motherfuckers! 🐦‍🔥

Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Love what you did there🖤

Thea Wood's avatar

Actually, it didn’t come out as intended on the last line: “Rise, motherfuckers!” was the intended line.

Honeygloom's avatar

Darn syllables. It still works really well as it is imho.

Richbee's avatar

The sun rises as the phoenix

Reaches zenith. Wings spread.

Grave revues recycle fires forces

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

The solar egg is cracked

Dawns a new day of furnace fire.

Nuclear plants of cope with fallout.

Honeygloom's avatar

Sounds terrifying🔥

David Perlmutter's avatar

Also the capital city of the American state of Arizona.

K.M. Bennett's avatar

The firebird necklace

is the calling card of him

who stole her essence

Honeygloom's avatar

Ahh! I love a whole story in a haiku! Well done🖤

Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Trapped in a cycle,

He longs for those brief moments,

The fire sets him free... 😎

Honeygloom's avatar

Oo very bleak, I really like this take!

Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it... 😎

Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Or…

Poetry in flight

Wings spread by the virtue of

Self-immolation

Honeygloom's avatar

Beautiful! Self destruction for renewal🖤

Richbee's avatar

The great recycle.

ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Small, dirty, rundown

And those were the good parts, blech!

You’re long dead, Phoenix

Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Never been, myself. Now I guess I won’t have to.

ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

It was really surprising. I was letdown, but I spent all my time in Scottsdale, which is much much nicer.

Honeygloom's avatar

I’ve heard Scottsdale is nice, maybe they should move the capitol.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love it! The klaxon of the survivor🖤