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🔥The Last Glow 🔥

🔥Reflections on Endings and New Beginnings🔥

By Tim CarmichaelPublished 3 months ago • 1 min read

In the hush of night, where embers disappear

like fading stars, I sit and watch the fire,

its dance slow, and intimate,

the last gasp of warmth curling upwards,

each gleam a breath of everything once alive.

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The crackle speaks in low tones,

tales of days spent in laughter,

of shadows that danced

the grill of memories sizzling against the sky,

like a heart beating against the burden of night.

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What remains now is a tapestry of ash,

a delicate lacework of existence,

fragile, refusing to be forgotten,

as I trace the outline of what was

the light, the heat, the inferno that consumed.

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But endings are not merely extinguished flames.

They breathe new life into the cool air,

carving paths for the dawn to unfold,

a promise wrapped in smoke,

a future held in a sigh.

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I cradle the warmth of the last glow,

a soft farewell wrapped in the evening’s embrace,

and let the memories move around my fingers,

for in every ending, there lies a beginning,

a spark waiting to ignite anew.

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So as I watch the fire’s farewell,

I gather the remnants of a day gone by

not lost, but transformed,

into the promise of stars above

and the silent whisper of what comes next.

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About the Creator

Tim Carmichael

I am an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. I write about rural life, family, and the places I grew up around. My poetry and essays have appeared in Beautiful and Brutal Things, My latest book. Check it out on Amazon

https://a.co/d/537XqhW

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  • Kevin Rolly3 months ago

    This is lovely

  • Harper Lewis3 months ago

    Love this. I’m having an unburning on the solstice this year, so this hits home. I wrote this sestina about it and plan to photograph/video much of it and put something together in the Photography community with my documentation. https://promotion-survey.life/poets/sacrificial-fire%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">

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