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When Love Is Over

Song of Khan Zada

Only in August my heart was aflame,
Catching the scent of your Wind-stirred hair,
Now, though you spread it to soften my sleep
Through the night, I should hardly care.

Only last August I drank that water
Because it had chanced to cool your hands;
When love is over, how little of love
Even the lover understands!

poem by Laurence Hope
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That set my soul aflame

Your hair was full of curls
in the candlelight as we danced,
and I felt your hot body
pressing caressing against mine
and your golden eyes sparkled
much brighter than the stars.

In the moonlight
every thing was magic
and your perfume
was enchanting as from
an ancient secret recipe
and you had me entranced,

with long sweet kisses
that set my soul aflame.

poem by Gert Strydom
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How Can You Be With Us?

you claim to be with us
in our sorrow and joy, this cannot be
when i ask you what our dreams are
you reason out
that these matters are my personal matters
that i must keep within my heart

no, mother, since you do not know what
my dreams are
you never know me, and you never love me
the interest pushes you to know
and the knowledge keeps the love
aflame.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The last of the sunny-sides-up

'Twas your birthday
the sixtyfifth
March twentytwo
retirement too

Morning came
living love aflame
breakfast the game

I asked, with teeth holding flower
What should it be, dear
sunny-side-up, your answer
and I was gripped with fear

cracked the egg
into the pan
and waited
for sun-up ripening
yolk still running

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poem by Mark Nwagwu
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In Hours Of Ebbing Tide

In hours of ebbing tide, oh trust not to the Sea!
It will come back to shore with redness of the morrow;
O don't believe in me when in the trance of sorrow
I swear I am no longer true to thee!

The waves will roll again in dazzling ecstasy,
From far away, with joy, to the beloved shore;
And I with breast aflame, beneath thy charm once more,
Shall haste to bring my liberty to thee!

poem by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
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Coals glowing orange red

Coals glowing orange red in the half drum
blazing through the holes in the sides of it
and a guard warms his hands
where he stands watching, with eyes alert

one hand touching the baton
as if testing if it is still there
and his shadow is gigantic
on the white building behind him

and above him, in the night
God’s coals are aflame
burning through the holes in the sky.

poem by Gert Strydom
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The glory of God

Nature is filled with the glory of God,
in electric lightning bolts that flashes down,
hitting as if aflame

and in every piece of grass, flower,
bush and tree nature bares witness to it

the white-hot sun in the cobalt blue sky,
aquamarine waters stretching into the sea
is making it know,

but the presence of man destroys,
leaves an impact,
eats at nature like a cancer.

poem by Gert Strydom
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The Master-Player

AN old worn harp that had been played
Till all its strings were loose and frayed,
Joy, Hate and Fear, each one essayed,
To play. But each in turn had found
No sweet responsiveness of sound
Then Love the Master-Player came
With heaving breast and eyes aflame;
The harp he took all undismayed,
Smote on its strings, still strange to song,
And brought forth music sweet and strong.

poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Love Aflame

i do not wish to give you
what i do not have

they are all lies and nothing
beautiful grows from the petals
of my empty words

i have only this heart
ablaze with fire

it is only this heat
this flame
that i can offer

there is no promise from its
firewood that this thing aflame shall last forever

take me as i am
and look at me with all understanding when at dawn
i turn to ash again

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I am a great passion!

I am a great passion!

I want to reap your soul to mine

Know that I am a great passion that will consume your mind

Your senses aflame with the fires I light

You will desire me so, do you see any point in flight

Throbbing, breathless till I relieve your sweet agony

I decide, to hold or grant the ecstasy

All this and more, your dreams will come true

Only if your soul longs for me too!

poem by Anita Atina
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