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The Fireless Flame: A Poem

Warmth for the winter of life

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May 01, 2026
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The Fireless Flame

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

The fireless flame within me burns,
And teaches what I know.
I’ll not be one who such heat spurns
While into night I go.

How lost the days when I it sought
Though in effect flash-blind
To what my hours spent me bought:
There shadows now I find.

Soon come the years when ‘round m…

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