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Up there, on the surface of the Sun,
The Fire Beast grazes on gaseous plains,
sometimes exploding into fiery fury,
shaking her flaxen mane and sending rays
deep into space. Ripples of her sorrel
shoulders swirl tornadic energy away—
white blasts arcing out. Her hooves
strike sparks as riderless she bows
her back, bucking torches toward us.
Then the Fire Beast relents, rests,
as if hobbled, eared down, twitched.
Yet the eyes of the steed still flash fire
and the heart pumps lava about. Temporarily
timid and tamed she refrains from releasing
the cataclysmic blasts, dear old Peg.

 

 

Poems

Home of Dick Heaberlin Writes

Orange House Books

A Cavalcade of Oilfield Novels

Fountain Wells: Oilfield Novels of Ontario, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia

Gushers: Oilfield Novels of Texas

Poetry Collections

Trotting With the Fox

Harness Bells

My Writing Guides

English Syntax:
A Guide to the Grammar of Successful Writers

Writing Style 1

Connecting for Coherence:
A Guide to Building Sentences With Syntax And Logic

Writing Style 2

Purposeful Punctuation:
A Syntactic Guide to English Punctuation

Writing Style 3

Skinny Writing:
A Guide to Concise Prose
for Writers and Editors—Writing Style 4

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