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FIREBRAND

Firebrand

By Hecton J ElweyPublished 6 days ago 1 min read
FIREBRAND
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With frenzy danced the native girl

Feet aflame and skirts a swirling

Limbs a whirl and crimson gleam

Hypnotic piercing glare

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She swallows all, with lustful greed

Scarlet lips into a smile are curling

At her feet, the forest pleading

Trapped within her snare

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Wind-whipped she seethes...inferno fury

Latent savage wrath unfurling

Black, the smoking stench of death

Offended nostrils flare

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Merciless she forges forward

Tongues of flame from fingers burning

Once fertile, fruitful lands of plenty

Consumed without a care

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Jungle green caressed by crimson

Like the leaves in Autumn turning

Broken-backed and crippled tumbling

Leaving branches bare

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Through straw roofed village huts she shrieks

and through the smouldering streets she's whirling

Avert your eyes for fear of falling

Or at your life she'll tear

nature poetry

About the Creator

Hecton J Elwey

Compelled to write...

In the grip of Poetry, Haiku and Prose...

Forces greater than I impose themselves daily, ensuring I bring about their birth, expression and freedom

Death to AI... for it has no place within the house of creativity.

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    Written by Hecton J Elwey