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Firebox (FB)
This is a CRITIQUE forum...Stoking and smoking poetry critiques. This is not a forum for the faint-hearted. It is strongly advised that you first post a poem in the On Track forum to get input prior to posting it here.Posting Rules: You may post 1 piece each day but you must post one thoughtful and substantial reply to at least one other writer here before posting your own poem.

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** Something of an Epiphany-- A-ha, familiar turns divine, as a roadway turns to sky, its black-ice emptiness, filled by stars, A-ha, a dry spell, a child prays for rain, the sky answers a reply<b... Started May 21^st, 2009 at 3:54am by peach	2	178	Oct 7^th, 2011 at 12:39am By: peach
Consummation To nibble on your ear lobes, Brush my lips across your neck, And drink your sweet aroma On this passion hungry trek. To feel your warm responses, Hear the gentle, urging sighs... Started Jul 10^th, 2011 at 3:48pm by Shawn_M._Roeder	3	53	Oct 2^nd, 2011 at 2:55am By: sunilmathur
** Nothing To It Days, heavy with misery, sap the strength, fill buckets with tears, the weight of emptiness so entire it spills over, stretching and flattening the furrows, smoothing ... Started May 5^th, 2009 at 1:43am by peach	6	111	Oct 1^st, 2011 at 4:36pm By: sunilmathur
** sisters A butterfly sashays with delicate grace her dainty glide, a spirited flight captures the bright of day, A moth bounces with oafish glee banging around chaotically, caught in ... Started May 16^th, 2009 at 9:11am by peach	2	88	May 24^th, 2011 at 5:56am By: peach
** Celebrity Status-- Unfamiliar with red carpet bling, the distinctive ping of crystal, the tickle your nose curl your toes, taste of champagne, all the trimmings and trappings, of celebrity st... Started May 18^th, 2009 at 3:56pm by peach	5	147	May 24^th, 2011 at 4:31am By: peach
** Bound for home- Breathless, braced against the edges of a storm and angry sea, I stand despite the bullying the wind is giving me. The initial threat does not succeed, yet another one begi... Started Jun 1^st, 2009 at 4:24am by peach	3	219	May 23^rd, 2011 at 3:20am By: peach
** To say it never happened... 1942-1945 To say it never happened-- Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau... To call it a hoax-- Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzek, Majdanek... To ignore the calculated, syste... Started Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 11:14pm by peach « Pages 1 2 »	16	251	May 21^st, 2011 at 2:55pm By: peach
** What the... hell? a terror, in and of itself, on its own, the depths of an abyss, the perspective of awareness, and even occupants, as for me-- for any soul nothing, is m... Started Jul 21^st, 2009 at 5:09pm by peach	3	24	May 21^st, 2011 at 3:22am By: peach
** Walking Walking through memory's gate, seeing with the eyes of a dreamer... an uneasy feeling churns, as I press forward, hoping to avoid this part of the map, bypass the place fro... Started Aug 12^th, 2009 at 2:59am by peach	8	236	May 21^st, 2011 at 2:44am By: peach
** Visionary Were we engineered to be alone To pass time without beck or call Fashioned from other than flesh and bone With nothing to strive, no fear at all? What purpose a canvas stretched to... Started Jul 9^th, 2009 at 3:54pm by peach	7	137	May 21^st, 2011 at 2:06am By: peach
** A Gentle Kill A cat crouches tight around its kill, paws, sticky with bits, the inedible remnants of locust, the flick of its tail, snaps in warning, eyes shoot flares, staving interference<br... Started Dec 13^th, 2009 at 5:57pm by peach	3	103	May 21^st, 2011 at 1:11am By: peach
** meditatively speaking Were it possible to wake from age, as night, stretch straight and tall from bed, without ache or pain to follow, to hinder every step? What price or value given, ... Started Dec 27^th, 2009 at 2:42pm by peach	3	86	May 20^th, 2011 at 7:30am By: peach
** The Return Looking out my window unsuspecting of my view, time starts reeling backward, ...moments spent with you Shocked and happy, my heart does pirouettes-- hope springs e... Started Jan 16^th, 2010 at 9:35am by peach	4	156	May 20^th, 2011 at 6:53am By: peach
** On a Stroll with my Son We barely reach the park, when you tug free, your arms and legs propelling you, faster and further -- away, the release of your hand, your backward glance small comfort... Started Dec 24^th, 2009 at 6:47pm by peach	5	19	May 20^th, 2011 at 2:53am By: peach
** take my hand Not just some old cliche though weary and feeling used my skin is thin, but my mind is good as new. So take my hand let's talk a while listen to all I have to tell<br /... Started Jan 18^th, 2010 at 1:17pm by peach	7	38	May 20^th, 2011 at 1:24am By: peach
** The Nightmare of Living I hear my scream waking from a dream, laughing softly, Funny that there were times I did not dream, ...times, I wished, I could, It happens a lot less often, fades... Started Feb 4^th, 2010 at 7:04pm by peach	11	181	May 20^th, 2011 at 12:10am By: peach
** snippet Shiny bright buttercups glisten perfect yellow swells, so open and inviting, I cannot help but smile, the delicate sweet scent and color, bringing me back, through t... Started Mar 1^st, 2010 at 9:37am by peach	3	130	May 19^th, 2011 at 11:28pm By: peach
** Words- Words come and go, fly, set sail many without purpose or appeal, spoken slowly, or in a rush just rain-dropped noise inside a pail. The pattern of tinny echoes, flowing stream... Started Dec 20^th, 2009 at 10:47pm by peach	8	181	May 19^th, 2011 at 6:01pm By: peach
** Here There are times I have the feeling, an awareness you are here, standing still as silence, loitering so near, the sensation—quite insisent it prickles to my core a sens... Started Apr 20^th, 2010 at 11:59am by peach	5	17	May 18^th, 2011 at 2:11am By: peach
** The Chill of Loss The cemetary chapel stands its gray roof, frost-thickened, brittle with cold, spawns icicles, indifferent as thorns dangerous as spears, Banished from heights, as roses hun... Started May 30^th, 2010 at 6:05am by peach	6	30	May 18^th, 2011 at 2:00am By: peach
** where we stand A blur of red, white and blue, the colors blended together, look like a muddy creekbed. Pinched, as a bruise, stiffens, leaves a permanent mark, as those lost, become part<b... Started Jun 30^th, 2010 at 1:49am by peach	1	89	May 17^th, 2011 at 10:31pm By: peach
** Rehearsal How do I tell you I am about to become history? Does anyone ever know how to say good-bye? Can finesse ever blend with farewell--? When the going is going to be t... Started Aug 12^th, 2010 at 8:00pm by peach	3	115	May 17^th, 2011 at 6:26pm By: peach
** Entry We mortals push at life with the shove-rush-slide of a tidal wave, the surge-burst-arrival, on a scene, both propellant and astounding,. No two of us alike, uniqu... Started Jun 12^th, 2010 at 6:18pm by peach	5	201	May 17^th, 2011 at 5:44pm By: peach
** reaping as sown As wheat begins it belongs to earth, compelled by hands it thrashes and bends, in part--whole as family. Healthful, sound, fundamental as bread, reaped as sown. Unlike the w... Started May 22^nd, 2010 at 2:37pm by peach	9	71	May 17^th, 2011 at 5:27pm By: peach
** Hail- Hail hurls to the ground, frozen, suicidal unbound white weight that plummets down to earth, physical images that hurt, like some of the choices we make, made ... Started Sep 13^th, 2010 at 6:18pm by peach	8	129	May 17^th, 2011 at 4:54pm By: peach

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