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Fire Fables
Things were pretty dull until two
million years ago, seeing new
strange wildfires.
Among the ashes were some hot spots,
just several odd blazing dots,
called a backfire.
They say that great apes were the first
to see that a hot flaming burst
was a homefire.
Then man aped the chimps so it seems,
after some burning and sad screams
became cookfire.
So some smart men controlled a spark;
no longer afraid of the dark,
having campfires.
Glenn Buttkus
Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub
13 comments:
Ha! You managed a history of fire in this besotted format, though final syllables of 4 instead of 3...an easy switch.
Having that fire changed a lot. Good to read these fire fables.
I like this one a lot, very well done!
Yo bros - nice! And you stayed pretty close to the form. Good write… 👍🏼🙂
Laughing at the fourth stanza where man "aped the chimps," descended into "cookfire"! Clever idea to use fire to trace our pre-historic beginnings, Glenn. Enjoyed it.
pax,
dora
A great word choice! I love the way you trace the origins of fire in our society from the primordial fires of a cooling earth to the homely campfire.
From prehistoric times to the present, you covered it well!
Bravo. Nice one Glen
Much💜love
Love this fiery progression ....
I enjoyed your fire fable history, Glenn. Fire is a great word choice, and campfire is so evocative.
Enjoyed this very much
Taming the fire was a great thing for humanity... Prometheus may have given it to us, and been punished..
History of fire in a clever poem!
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