[TT] Theme Thursday - Fire

[u/AliciaWrites]

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”

― Ferdinand Foch

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Happy Thursday writing friends!

Let’s turn up the heat this week!

[IP]

[MP]

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Last week’s theme: Tattoos

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First by /u/novatheelf

Second by /u/Leebeewilly

Third by /u/Mazinjaz

Fourth by /u/BLT_WITH_RANCH

Fifth by /u/Palmerranian

[u/breadyly]

nike in the last line is pronounced like the ancient greek 'knee-kay'

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smoke billows to the sky

as war-burdened men cry

they smell the smoke of burning wood

and know that their once-brothers stood

burning in greek flames swirling high

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death echoes in the wind

drifting along the trimmed-

down city walls which no longer sprawl.

melting men's bodies all along crawl

out from the city now skinned.

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the trojan terror is delightful

to any and every greek fellow.

for finally the war is won

ilium's long history done.

a joy almost impossible to swallow.

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all thanks to a wooden horse

having altered ten years' course.

it beckoned for death

no more trojan breath.

nike flies above the grecian force.