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Question:ODE TO FIRE
Erin Marie Young
Ode Poem

One of man's first discoveries.
So wonderful, yet wretched.
An arsonist dream, so great in its power.
But all fire cannot be bad.
What shall cook your food?
What shall thaw your bones after the cold winter night?
It is anger and hatred, forever embedded in out lives.
But it is the fire of feeling, red within our souls.
Touch and get burned.
Can you feel the fire building?
Rising from deep within your throat.
There's no need to fight this feeling,
That makes you want to scream.
The fire is man and nature, held together by one flame.
When you see fire, you see everything.
The very persona of nerve, anger, doubt.
How remarkable, yet forgotten.


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Erin Marie Young
Ode Poem

One of man's first discoveries.
So wonderful, yet wretched.
An arsonist dream, so great in its power.
But all fire cannot be bad.
What shall cook your food?
What shall thaw your bones after the cold winter night?
It is anger and hatred, forever embedded in out lives.
But it is the fire of feeling, red within our souls.
Touch and get burned.
Can you feel the fire building?
Rising from deep within your throat.
There's no need to fight this feeling,
That makes you want to scream.
The fire is man and nature, held together by one flame.
When you see fire, you see everything.
The very persona of nerve, anger, doubt.
How remarkable, yet forgotten.

"The fire is man and nature, held together by one flame"

This summed it up for me, and is reflective of the worldview I've been exploring called 'Deism'...

Plus it challenges all of us to feel again, it seems to be a theme in these last two poems I've been commenting on..you have a message, and are experiencing for us the masses, what only we could truly want...mainly passion......what we don't want to admit though, is, that we don't want to experience the pain, or the dues(so to speak), to get to the point of your passionate-intelect...When your walk talks more then your talk does, as would have to be the case from someone who types these words, it would be blasphemy to call it a mere-sermon.... but more appropriately......


LIFE!!!

Wow your poem was really great and off the hook as it kept me so interested to the last line' and yes it does make sense i guess.