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love is like an unlit match
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Ended January 21, 2021 • 24 Entries • Created by darknight
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ana_vega222

Clandestine Affairs

There’s ice in your eyes,

where there’s fire in mine,

But darling, ice can burn-

The sad thing about our story,

is that we end in mortal doom,

For every moment we’re together,

Turns our hearts into a tomb.

You melt for me, and I burn for you,

both of us withering away.

But at dawn we stand, forgotten pain,

to live another day.

I love you with my soul,

rather than my heart of fragile strings.

even though I run from our clandestine affairs,

I find peace in what they bring.

I stood in a gossamer gown,

your eyes tracing the fires of my eyes,

and as you knelt upon your knee,

I whispered, “Do you think that is wise?”

You said, “Darling you can destroy me,

for I was only ever yours to break,

My hands were meant for yours,

as we cross the frozen lake.”

Even in the utter chaos,

The only peace high up in foreign spires,

Can only be found with you, so-

I’m stepping into our raging fires.

#fantasy #poetry #poems #challenge #love #prose #fire #ice

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Moonsinger128

darkness

love is like an unlit match

bcause you're both in the dark

only able to see

a few feet in front of you

and that unknown

is what

keeps you alive

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ColdRamen

love is like an unlit match

doused in tears and heartbreak

lit aflame by lies and affections

a thin stick of wood

easily snapped between my fingers

easy to break

hard to mend

easy to lose

hard to find

sparks fly

fire burns

match dies out

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EvilIce

Matches

love is like an unlit match

your parents tell you not to play with it

because they know how much it burns

love is like an unlit match,

it's waiting for a spark or the side of a box

to strike it into life

love is like an unlit match,

it's a forbidden game

that kids aren't supposed to know how to play

and yet we do it anyway

and we act shocked

when we get burned.

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thisisit

match point

love is like

an unlit

match

a wildfire

started

from

scratch

it takes one

to convey

the

meaning

of what can

be

done

with

just a

spark

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Mellondeau

Do you have a light?

A match unlit

burning with potential

biding time

waiting...

Always present

out of sight

carried forth

inner pockets

cradling

seeds

shielded from expansion

stuck

waiting...

Always present

out of sight

carried forth

inner pockets

cradling

seeds

shielded from expansion

stuck

waiting...

seeds

shielded from expansion

stuck

waiting...

seeds

waiting...

waiting...

passed from hand to tempting hand

brief words on a dark night

hot flashes unplanned

Burned

abandoned after use

tossed out-of-sight

Do you have a light?

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champagnepoetry

unmatched

the space that is my heart

seems to be dark,

for the match that was us

was never given the chance

to be lit, i think

we were over before we

ever even started.

you were given a chance

to light my match and

together, we would be a flame

that would burn as long as

our love was alive.

its clear to me now, that

the chance of our flame being

given the chance of life

was merely a moment of weakness

on my part

for you.

- sincerely a love that was never meant to be but will always be a memory

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RamonElCamino

Loving a book of matches?

Loves like an unlit match you say?

Ok I’ll bite. Let’s play!

On its own it remains stable even neglected.

Correction on the condition that you’ve tamed your propensity for following around the opposite sex with an erection. Starting friction fires. Does it remain capable despite being to often neglected

Clearly I only speak of my particular male point of view. The female’s and every other male’s being beyond my realm of expertise. A view askew!

"Act One! Cut to two!"

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Chapter 2

Riding Eight AT-AT’s

“Achu!"

"Fuck you. Bless you. An unlit match ain’t burned no fat yet. Your blowing smoke to stoke the fires. So when if ever you do catch me smoking and turn me in. It won’t be the first time disciplinarians come across my name"

"Yea right. If I was born yesterday maybe. Oh wouldn’t you just love that? I get labeled a Karen while getting you over the first hump towards martyrdom in the process. As if?"

"Hey I just implied you’d throw me under the bus. For getting high. Not murder me Captain Overkill. You got some serious thighs. Why you gotta hate? I was hoping we’d go out on a date and relate thru a shared taste for flammable literature sometime Bookworm."

"Dude! I’m fine with burning some tree. Idiot! Just keep your filthy cigarettes away from me. Yes I’d love to get high. Fire it up shit 4 brains."

"Ah dude like because sulfur-ing thru me getting an idea. I.e. Flaming out stinks like eggs? Which were not born yesterday! Burn! But no don’t ever get a perm your hair is beautiful."

Love is like..........

"Unlit matches! WTF" (where’s the fire???)

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Writing Eight @@’s over Hoffa’s icy grave.

The Valentine’s Day massacre of teamsters by two planking Esuesue (e-sue-zoo) troopers spray painting 8 @’s on ice-e walls. In and around the city of Harnniple on the Hoff’s barren Barnacle bay. Just devastating the local freezer burners. Writing graffiti propaganda high up the walls with the help of the Empire’s heavy articulators. Put the troopers at the tip of the lightsaber “burning spear" Well out of the reach of their competition. Wining the day for the establishment. Coming soon! On the KOOL network “Revenge of the Jedidiah” the same thing only set in Jamaica man.

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kwess1234

Symphonic energy

an endless sea of possibility

an unopened latch

and dancing dizzily

it begins like a great symphony

a jumbling mismatch

of instruments squeaking giddily

and suddenly-- a great synchony

love is like an unlit match

brimming with potential energy

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Awoytuik

Playing with Matches

Love is like an unlit match.

And who doesn't love playing with fire?

Raw unrealized potential just waiting to explode,

Flashing upon my memory like a celluloid film. Never to expire.

Though the flame's existence maybe but mere seconds,

What a grand display before my very eyes.

Somethings are not meant to last forever,

But each of those precious nanoseconds holds the true prize.