Setting Fire To The Flames...That Burn My Heart

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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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I burn your
precious letters

(you know the ones)

all paper promises
& lies...lies...lies.

I watch your words
curl at the edges

watch the flames

lick at sentences
tentatively

then devour pages
ravenously

your voice become
smoke

promises...lies
ashes...ashes.

Dónall Dempsey

Sunday, February 17, 2008

poem poems Lies Ashes

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Peter O'brien 15 January 2014

A spare, lean poem with great emotional intensity! I would like to write poetry like this! Very moving! Peter

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Scarlett Treat 20 February 2008

I wish this would give me the courage to set fire to all the promises...lies...and turn them into ashes which would then blow away in the wind! Loved this one.

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