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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

I would bag ashes

As a child believing they

Were phoenix droppings

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Carefully

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Honeygloom's avatar

Copulatory immolation is a huge problem.

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Ah, the flame of passion! La petite mort.

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Thea Wood's avatar

Love this.

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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

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Answer = nothing

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Honeygloom's avatar

Or maybe a bunch of small, incomplete phoenixes…

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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...

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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K.M. Bennett's avatar

Haha!! Part unicorn fan part horror writer 🦄

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

From pure chaos

To unfettered flight

A beautiful bird

Heads skybound now.

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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Thea Wood's avatar

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust, but as for me?

I’m risen, motherfuckers! 🐦‍🔥

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Love what you did there🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

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

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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Richard Blaisdell'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.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Sounds terrifying🔥

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Also the capital city of the American state of Arizona.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Never been, you?

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David Perlmutter's avatar

No.

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K.M. Bennett's avatar

The firebird necklace

is the calling card of him

who stole her essence

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Trapped in a cycle,

He longs for those brief moments,

The fire sets him free... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oo very bleak, I really like this take!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it... 😎

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Or…

Poetry in flight

Wings spread by the virtue of

Self-immolation

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Honeygloom's avatar

Beautiful! Self destruction for renewal🖤

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

The great recycle.

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Defiance my name

Crush me, burn me, bury me

I will rise anew

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love it! The klaxon of the survivor🖤

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Small, dirty, rundown

And those were the good parts, blech!

You’re long dead, Phoenix

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

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

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Honeygloom's avatar

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

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