The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Crimson

Ardent blades burn in sun's passion.
Fired scarlet, succulent leaves
gather to bear the bloom.

Fervent petals waft in sultry air
like excited flames, goaded
by a mesmerized smithy.

Enraptured I stare in stillness.

In a sky of virescence, I float
looking down in my mind to
that crimson eye-flood.

Stoke the heart-head inferno,
Loosed in a bang of distractions consumed,
and
rest in the ever ember-ashes of now.

Alternative last strophes (line 2 changed in each):

Stoke the heart-head inferno,
Loose passion's burst beyond,
and
Rest in the ever ember-ashes of now.

Stoke the heart-head inferno,
Loose the barren soul-bloom,
and
Rest in the ever ember-ashes of now.
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