The challenge for day three of the Phoenix Poetry Challenge is to write one poem inspired by the prompt of a Shopping Cart as a metaphor for life. As a bonus prompt should this one not inspire, they offer The Phoenix Fire - something that can be a force of both destruction and creation. I struggled again. Poetry is so much easier when written from an idea that bubbles up instead of from an outside source. In the end I chose Fire. And as an added challenge I thought it was the right time embrace rhyming. It really isn't easy.
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Like a Phoenix You Will Rise
by Marilyn R. Wilson
Dust filling every crevice.
Heavily clad in layers of grime.
Moss growing in random patches.
And in between, puddles of slime.
Day by day and month by month,
Relentlessly building over the years.
A burden too hard to bear,
Built from sorrow, watered with tears.
Mold yourself to our expectations
Whispered a sly voice silver-tongued.
Bend to worldly demand and pressures.
Conform completely or be shunned.
Another path ahead in the distance
Called softly to catch my attention
The universe carried a message
Filled with welcome divine intention.
This never was your destiny.
The world's burden can be shed,
The cure demands great courage
A trial that will challenge ahead.
Rebirth builds from destruction.
First a purging by searing fire.
Consuming the layers of burden
Turning them to ashes in a pyre.
You stand small amidst the ruins
Soul bared, naked and reborn.
Eyes gaze on stunning vistas
Your future stands transformed.
Now light as a hummingbird feather
Like a phoenix you will rise.
Ever upward, ever higher,
Lifted on wings you reach the sky.
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