Do you know if you have been someone's spark?

Question

I have had some sparks this day.

Could this poem be an offering of thanks?

Solitary spark

tiny ray of hope

a crumb offered

when one

is starving

in the dark

hungering

first it

glimmers

then smolders

in despair's embers

fire's gentle glow

dries tears

slowly thaws

frozen heart

brings to life

again.

Answer 1

Beautifully written real poetry with metaphors and other imagery. Many people on this site reignited my own dying embers. If I live for another century, I will never be able to repay them.

Answer 2

Good one!  I like it!!!  You go Ma!

Answer 3

that was good

Answer 4

Kindness, is a spark you speak of well, Kudos.

Answer 5

I do like this I do, nicely set up in first line... Solitary spark... but alas I think I need a defibrillator for my dead-battery heart. click, click, sputter.

Answer 6

Very nicely done ma. Hopefully he does see it. LOL

Answer 7

Very Good B..Yes its a good poem of offering to thanks.. But its us who are offering our thanks to you.You have unthawed our frozen heart and brought us back to life and have given us the crumb for us to devour .. But your embers will never completely go out as i know your fire will always burn for us to once again warm our brains , and our hands, and our heart once again. Huggs..

Answer 8

Yes, but little did I know she bathes in kerosene...but only in the company of her trusted intimates.

Answer 9

A poem can be anything you desire it to be. It can be a lament, a thank you, a celebration or simply an observation on a myriad of topics.

It is your heart which comes out 'on paper' so to speak. So if you wish this to be an expression of thanks for a spark..

So be it.

Answer 10

From little sparks, warm fires.  nice expression of gratitude and well written.  Thanks.

Answer 11

A glowing tribute ma. Vive la flame eternale!  

Answer 12

the one person whose spark i want to be, will be letting someone else light his fire.

the spark he kept lit inside of me has died out. i don't think there is even an ember for someone else to get going.

you are muched loved ma, don't you ever doubt it. sometimes love doesn't come from the one we want,  sometimes this is all we get.

you WILL get through this.  you are too strong of a woman not to.

Answer 13

Interesting the tie you established between spark and hunger.  Obviously a different type of hunger.  I often use a testla coil to spark but then I make neon signs. lol  Well said.

Answer 14

You da Mom!! Yes, it can be an offering of thanks!

Answer 15

Very nice Ma..once again!