diff --git a/content/post/2018/01/burn-fierce-burn-bright/index.markdown b/content/post/2018/01/burn-fierce-burn-bright/index.markdown index f670cb6..c9f40f1 100644 --- a/content/post/2018/01/burn-fierce-burn-bright/index.markdown +++ b/content/post/2018/01/burn-fierce-burn-bright/index.markdown @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ +++ categories = ["poetic"] +tags = ["fire"] date = "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z" title = "Burn fierce, burn bright" @@ -23,7 +24,8 @@ Blood red like the torrential force pumping through your veins, the rush of powe Pink like petals on the most delicate of roses, wafer thin and dancing to the breeze. The flame of love. -Crimson, Electric blue, Clear, White, Yellow, Cherry red, Blood red, Pink. +Crimson, electric blue, clear, white, yellow, cherry red, blood red, pink. These are the flames. diff --git a/content/post/2018/12/chasing-her-blinkered/index.md b/content/post/2018/12/chasing-her-blinkered/index.md index fa0a315..fc6fa27 100644 --- a/content/post/2018/12/chasing-her-blinkered/index.md +++ b/content/post/2018/12/chasing-her-blinkered/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ +++ title = "Chasing Her, Blinkered" date = "2018-12-22" -publishdate = "2018-12-22 00:00:00" [[resources]] name = "header thumbnail" src = "**1*SEZXRDfqb_s0kyhzZGt5GA*" diff --git a/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md b/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d75de83 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2021/12/newflame/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ ++++ +categories = ["poetic"] +tags = ["fire"] +date = "2021-12-15T00:19:00.000Z" +layout = "post" +title = "Newflame" +description = "What happens when you walk into the fire?" +[[resources]] + name = "header thumbnail" + src = "**matteo-kutufa-UvuPQamqzxo-unsplash*" + [resources.params] + [resources.params.meta] + creator = "KMatteo Kutufa" + license = "https://unsplash.com/license" + sameAs = "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528918007032-ace5ad267d56?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8NTF8fGZsYW1lfGVufDB8fDB8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60" ++++ + +Forget not who [you are](/post/2018/10/you-are/), my darling.[^1] + +[Burn fierce, burn bright](/post/2018/01/burn-fierce-burn-bright/). Above all, burn as you are and *as you will to be*. + +What colour is a person's fire, you ask? It depends. + +This particular consuming conflagration I think is like molten snow. Liquid heat infused into ice. A delicious contradiction that burns bright despite all reason and rule. + + +> [You are magic, don't **ever** apologise for the fire in you](https://www.instagram.com/p/CUkUCyRomqL/) + + +Burnt into the flame of hope, that piercing roaring whiteness, dancing gleeful at its core is another flame. This flame is red. + +Not the cherry red of strength, though this scintillating plasma burns with fierce strength. + +Not the blood red of life, though this flame is powerfully enlivened with desire to live. + +The particular red that spins and burns within this flame of hope is that of endless passion, a full and encompassing crimson. + +As you watch this incendiary union, the two contrasting flames -- red against white, white against red like a bloodied game of chess, [dueling like lovers hearts](https://medium.com/the-scene-heard/meeting-my-match-26d32f62043a) -- fuse and amalgamate. + +Duly, a *new* colour is formed from eating up both flames. Octarine. The eighth colour of the rainbow. The colour of magic.[^3] Indescribable. Fluorescent. Fierce. + +In its sublime new colour, the flame grows. And grows. A spark begets an inferno, sooner or later. This flicker is magical, to boot. + +You walk into the flame, though you strangely do not fear being burned. + +What happens when you walk into the fire, unafraid? + +[^1]: Yes, *you*. The one reading this. You have beautiful all over your face, too. +[^3]: GNU STP diff --git a/content/post/2021/12/newflame/matteo-kutufa-UvuPQamqzxo-unsplash.jpg b/content/post/2021/12/newflame/matteo-kutufa-UvuPQamqzxo-unsplash.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7d61f5 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/post/2021/12/newflame/matteo-kutufa-UvuPQamqzxo-unsplash.jpg differ