Revival

written after a weekend at an 1805 Kentucky Camp Meeting

Like the ember
smouldering
unseen in the ashes,
my heart will someday
flame passionately.
One breath--
is all I need
to change this
seeming-charred soul
into a
furious
fire.

Reviews

[Blackbirdsong]

That's all it takes and sometime it can come from sources we least expect. One moment you're feeling down and the next completely rejuvenated and ready to conquer the world. I love the allusion of rising from your own ashes like a phoenix here.

[Lilith des Cavernes]

Beautiful!

[Solst Rapture]

So few words but such dense passion fused with each and every one of them.

[Gandré]

ah Emily... your special small loving gems of beauty. It is a wonderful stimulation to feel life and just gain a good mood. i love your brevity and beauty. that's you.

[Kevin Andros]

Very Nicely written! ~KA~

[Drifting Blue]

I like the way this sounds. It has such rhythm and grace. I like especially the pairing of ashes and passionately. Well done.

[PoemRodent]

So little said yet so much in expression. Very deep and to thepoint with imagery.

Very good write.

Love and Thoughts,

Dostani

[bluessadmood]

yes sometimes you are so low and feeling down ,when at a very slight motivation ,you go all alive ,and lovely to the outside world ,how curios and flippant is the human soul,it never stops to amaze me,moayad

[Thomas James Martin]

wonderful metaphor! Enjoyed poem's truth--no other philosophizing needed.

Tom

[Brianna Brie]

true...awesome words

[logmein]

I love this. I'm sure you knew I would relate. I like the "one breath". I have found that statement to be true and not something you can fight at all. Your words flowed together as meant to be.