Burn

[herbavore]

I have been doing bookmaking with my students and I made a book with matches on the cover. I needed a poem or some words for the inside and this popped out:



Burn


Burn the angry words
Burn the sweetness and the silences.
Burn the ceiling and the walls.
Burn the furniture.
Burn the clothing and the contents in the pockets.
Burn the moon and the stars.
Burn the delicate moments.
Burn the solid, steady clock of years.
Burn the memories and burn the forgetting.
Burn everything.
And when morning breaks
The color of ash, the color of nothing,
Rise and begin again
To make fire.

 

[New]

I like this. It speaks to the cleansing that comes after a blaze, not something many people touch upon.

 

[herbavore]

Thanks, New. I was thinking about passion--the passion in anger, the passion in grief and the mad desire to cleanse when there is no place to pour the passion for someone that is gone. But making the fire again seemed positive to me, like waking up in ash and going out to start putting heat and fire and passion back into your life. The guy that is printing it on his press for me said, "Wow. That's an angry poem." I didn't see it so much that way but it is whatever it is to whoever reads it, right?

 

[New]

Exactly.

 

[sexNcandy]

burn :D

 

[Raz]

I think it's really passionate but not negative...intense feeling consumes

 

[Captain.Heroin]

I really enjoyed this. Two thumbs up!

 

[herbavore]

This poem's type set up for the letterpress:



My friend's unbelievable studio. I love the smell of ink.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

^ wow!!!!

 

[Raz]

This poem's type set up for the letterpress:



My friend's unbelievable studio. I love the smell of ink.

Brilliant!! :D

 

[Br1ngTh3Ra1n]

Nice

 

[flyhighk]

Good job herbavore. When will the book be published ? Just curious