Ode To Wood Burning Smoke

by AngelaLuisaCory   Apr 24, 2016


I watch your waspish tendrils
Wend their way up high.
I see the colour of your life
Transfigured by the sky.

You mix and churn, and lift and turn
With every breath of air,
But gradually I'll watch you fade
And leave without a care.

You swirl and curl and chase the leaves
In yellow, greying strands
And join the sighing golden trees
As percussion to their band

Your fronds are now unfurling
Like a dancing hippogriph
And serpentine you slither
To the depts of an abyss.

I watch in fascination
As you bow and blow a kiss,
For your fragile life is over
As you drift to join the mist.

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  • 7 years ago

    by Alec

    I will never again look at smoke in the same way. Your command of imagery is amazing, to say nothing of the rhymes. What impresses me is it doesn't sound forced, you don't have to change the sentence structure. Everything flows together off the tongue and paints a picture before my eyes that are taking in a mural rather than reading words on a page. Again, amazing.

  • 7 years ago

    by mossgirl19

    I followed the smoke and drifted away with it! Nice write!

  • 7 years ago

    by Matt Taylor

    Hi Angie
    This poem is magical full of imagery and mystery a paraphrase of life itself. As always a winner from a very gifted poet
    Matt

  • 8 years ago

    by Mr. Darcy

    Hello Angela,

    I love to watch a fire, especially in a quaint English pub during the winter. If we're lucky we secure a table by the inglenook fire place and sit back enjoying the atmosphere. The popping and crackling of the logs is exciting, like a mini fire work display; especially when a knot of wood shoots out of the fire and slowly sizzles out on the flag stones.

    You have created a wonderful image here; infusing it with creatures to add mystery and wonder; like the 'hippogriph' half eagle, half horse. The imagery was magical, I could see and smell the smoke and flames licking in a hypnotic dance.

    Thank you for this gift.

    Take care,

    Michael

    • 8 years ago

      by AngelaLuisaCory

      Thank you so much for your comment - I am so pleased that you enjoyed the imagery - I know the poem is a little off the wall!

  • 8 years ago

    by Brenda

    Such a lovely write-beautiful visuals, I felt like I was transported to that moment in time.

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