Fire Fables

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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