Elemental Flame

The fire never dies

Ariadne Pautina

Sep 05, 2025

Following some encouragement from

Cassian Delmare

during the recent gathering, here is my offering; a poem of far more than three lines (IYKYK).

fire on bonfire during night time — Photo by David Schultz on Unsplash

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Ash stirs with twilight breezes

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Warmth wrapping alabaster flesh in wire

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Taut licks with teasing twists, charred and broken

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Strands wound, bound tight

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Tinder dry, the sparks flare

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Soot webs over skin with familiar ardour

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A sensuous crucible of fever

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Languid illumination radiates, unhidden

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Delicious and scalding restraint

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Each electrical lachrymiform a sigh

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A trigger coaxed closer to violence

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Whispered passion amongst stars, pleas

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Each stroke a cruel baptism

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Laving, carving, transforming

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Trial by control, submission, dominance

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Vacillating with strong slick intensity

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Every synapse torrefied

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Burnt and blazing, melting, within

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Tongues a torturous twist over skin

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Followed with promises kept by flesh

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Temptation radiantly beckoning the fall

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Scorching fragments of memory

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Kindles from embers of past immolation

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Wild words meet action, paced, slow

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A sempiternal dance of the senses

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Fervour burns, arousing elemental desire

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Igniting carnal dissipation with each oscillation

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Searing incineration of hurt with craved pain

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A torture welcomed with constriction

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Breath held, and time stands still

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The permitted pressure in our lungs

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Searing the moment in blood

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Meeting strike for strike, claw for claw, bite for bite

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The conflagration a scream in the dark

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Ash drifting to slick skin in entwined silence

woman in white dress lying on white bed — Photo by Womanizer Toys on Unsplash

If you wish to have a listen to a song which works beautifully with these words, please enjoy this one of my favourites.

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Ariadne Pautina

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