Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Laura McGuire.
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The Arsonist
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Your understanding
of the sparks
Beneath my flesh
And the desire that
flickered in my soul
Is an irreplaceable
memento of the love
That burned through
my chest
You were the fire
That struck in the night
And the calm of woodchips
in the morning
You were my arsonist,
watching on the sidelines
As the roaring flames
devastated everything
in its path.
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Laura McGuire (loulouchilds.com) is a photographer and avid globetrotter. She writes words sometimes, and aims to combine all three interests one day.
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