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Art Is Nothing But Fire, Just Waiting To Be Light


I was born without the invitation of saying hello,

yet you might say I was blind from rejection.

I guess it was too hard to live a life of deception.

The abstract black skin tone that haunts me.

I feared the day of horror, yet I gave light to man.

Am I that irresistible?

I fear the day that they would look into the flames and see me dancing,

that one day they would tame me.

 

 

They say art is the thoughts of nothingness,

that was created to make something meaningful.

Yet art is the pain of the unknown desires that seek companionship,

the everlasting desires to be something on the wanted list.

Yet see my art is nothing but raw pure fire,

the molting hot lava that landscapes the curves of shapes.

See I clash against the weight of pain and hurt,

formed with these two shaking old hands;

my finger tips linger around her waist as I mold her hate.

 

 

Art is more defined when you hurl the velocity of

the fireflies as bright butterfly wings shaped as feathers.

They call me the fireworks,

breaking distressed forms of nuclear weather.

Yet when I say art is waiting to be light,

I'm describing her characteristics that can't be missed.

She's decomposes the indestructible frames,

that is incapable of blame;

yet her beauty is so elegant that it renders us in her shame.

A box of iTunes that dualistic her every move into tunes shaped as goons.

 

 

Is light mightier than the sword,

is it wiser than the words we speak of or

is it braver than the lions that go out at night to feast on us?

See light isn't the questions,

it what's we do and say that makes it our answer.

When I say art is nothing but fire,

it's base on pure desires and will to be proven something.

Am I so shameless that I can't be critique?

 

 

The flames begins to shout and begins to torment those gingerbread

houses built with toothpick waiting to devoured by mouses.

See we can make anything interesting when we combined different flows of words.

Art is flames, contained in the ball of pain.

I'll burn down all my pages,

those poems that all label me as courageous.

 

 

Flames aren't considered art until it changes it's form.

Like those cabin cherrywood logs formed into ashes,

I shaped its components and put it into a bowl filled with masses.

I pour water and chemicals, preservatives and a base;

in the end I just made a new type of paint.

The cherrywood smoldering bright ashes.

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Mafi Grey

I went through a lot of hard life situations, but it never stopped me from trying to make something of myself. Currently, I'm following my dream to become a chef and on the side is the passion I hold deep for poetry. I hope you enjoy my art and my poems. Oh, just one more thing, please comment as much as you can. It motivates me to write, when I have an audience behind me. Also, It really shows when a person responds to my quotes or poems can make you feel that special feeling saying you really can do what you can do. I mean it's like a painter who puts his new work in the gallery for display for all to see, and then turns around to see 10 to 20 people standing around trying to figure out his inspiration, his thoughts, and what lead him there? I love when a person understands me and when their trying to dissect my thoughts. Also, when my work of art can help others cope with their monsters and to help a person become inspired. Thanks a lot. I grew up without a father, but that never stop me from becoming a man; yet I thought life would be easy but it wasn't. The pain that I grew up with was hard, but the thought that grew with inside me was even harder. Could I be a good father, could I contain the pain; could I even forget or could I be something better than what he tried to be. Before I knew it, I woke up a man with pain in his knees, with hair on his face; even with sweat, tears, and blood on his sleeves. The lost of hair, the responsibility of having faith in you and where I worked my hands far pass there capabilities. I believe that I'm a pretty fine man and that one day that I will love my children as mush as my father and mother did... Me and my friend has a group, he does music, rap, making beats, and videos. I help out there and here for the music, raps, and videos. I used to rap myself and we go way back. I join the team and he wants me to lead the poetry side and I agreed. If anyone wants to join, then email me at [email protected] and I'll see what you got. Check out my page: https://www.facebook.com/MafiThePoet

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Comments (3)

Grant-Grey Porter Hawk Guda
<p>Powerful expression. Always let poetry fill your life. Keep expressing your heart. &nbsp;</p>
Mafi Grey
<p>I wanted to write out the idea of how my art is similar to fire, how both have there own desires and spicy fare. How they build and how they can destroy. How my art can be abstract to be shaped in flames, I might be hot but aren't you curious what I am. See you can make anything desirable, just think of how you would display yourself in a gallery and people shall come.</p>
Mafi Grey
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Come check out my page - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MafiThePoet?ref=br_tf">https://www.facebook.com/MafiThePoet?ref=br_tf</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don't forget to hit that like button!</p>

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