Hot and steamy. What? Too cute? I'm sorry, but it is figuratively literally appropriate! There I go again.
"Coal-hearted heat," now there's an image. For what are diamonds if not carbon, or coal, under extreme pressure? The extreme pressures of love, perhaps?
And when you smoke coal, ah, for it burns and gives off much heat, under the surface. Banked, sizzling, for long term. Coal, the memories of lives past, of bygone eras. Used up in the moment, for heat, for life.
The blue flame, the small, yet hottest. Sulphur pacts, calling upon the magician's trade. And ignition, which we use to get around these days. Fire is always there, ever since Prometheus had gifted it to us, had stolen it for us, from the earliest, to the latest. The dawn of culture, and again, the coal used to transcribe said culture. To magicians, who were part of the earliest scientists, to our latest and greatest achievements.
All come from flame.
And love.
Love fills us. Love eats us. Love consumes us. And in so doing, we share our energy with others, and with the world. Plasma, like flame itself.
I also notice you've paid extra attention to the aesthetic of this piece. It looks good, even beyond reading well.
You really nailed it here! Sometimes I think you are the only person that actually connects all the dots in my poetry, it's rather humbling and certainly commendable, it says a lot about your level of comprehension as I’m always thinking (and trying) about how to work in sub-layers of meaning, braiding (not in the common sense of the braided poem, which I do love and present) if you will.
I am having such trouble with formatting via steemit, when I cut/paste from a document everything is always off (could be my mac, that was the reason behind the dtube and dsound fkery) and it can take such a large amount of time to re-format here, sometimes more time than it took to write a piece.
Thank you for this gift of a comment and feedback, I TRULY appreaciate it, Guy. <3
No, it's that these text-editors aren't meant to be copy-pasted into from other rich text editors. I always copy to notepad before copying here, and yes, it often means you need to reformat text.
I remember when I copied blogposts to reddit, which uses markdown as well, and I had to work on formatting it. And yes, you need to accept it'll take a while. Notepad copy-pasting will come off some of it.
Also, guess it's time to finally get that Asus working again :P
And I'm glad you like these comments. I'd gift you words all the days, and all the nights, if I could.