Like a Phoenix

Courageous Phoenix, what do you know
of past and future conflagrations?
With wings afire, do you sense
the embers of your renascent soul?
Is your savage life-death vortex
as mysterious to you as it is to us?

Although I'll never fly on Phoenix wings,
or share your tortured falls and resurrections,
I feel I know you as a brother
for we all have Phoenix games to play
with each dividing and perishing cell
its own ancestor and descendant -
tomorrow's joys born of present sorrows.

Noble Phoenix, in our barren seasons
when scorched spirits tumble to the earth,
soar down from your blackened rock
and restore the feathers of our tattered wings.

Ben Gieske
Your words evoke sharp and penetrating images. Your adjectives are strongly suggestive of feelings. The sensations linger after reading this.

Gerard Lebel
A "Wonder-Full" inspiring write!.....Jerry (*_*)

Cat
beautiful The building of the poem kept me wanting more.. Cat

Dream Weaver
This is an unforgettable write of the legend surrounding the rise of the pheonix, stunning imagery.

poetwithcancer
By the time I get to Phoenix...maybe I'll be rising. --Michael

carol
the phoenix lives inspiring

Kendzi
This poem brings alive the phoenix within us all. Interesting questions posed.

Lynda Robson
great poem Robert, uplifting

robyn selters
inspiring poem... very good indeed