A Fireside Verse

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This is a poem that came to me during the time of the great California Fires of November 2018. I didn’t wish there to be confusion between my inspiration and my sympathies for the victims of the fires in that area.

A Fireside Verse

 

 

(My sympathies to all who are stricken 

by the wildfires throughout our nation.)

 

Mid November afternoon,

The Fire-pit is overfull 

With fallen branches 

From storms, and collected 

Decaying yard entrails. 

 

As I ignite the bonfire,

A cold wind rushes forth 

From the North. 

It raises the flames 

Proclaiming, “My time has begun.”

 

The shadows flicker 

And fan about below 

The large hundred year old oaks.

It is as if ghosts have awoken

To watch over the dark season. 

 

I pause to recall what an elder 

Lakota Holy Man once said to me, 

“Spring and Summers are for experience.

Fall and Winter are for storytelling 

And going within.” 

 

~ KDW

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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