The Fenixphyre
MAGAZINE
Fenixphyre Poetry:
The Archive
2018
Untitled-Jennifer
Smoke Rings-Jacob
If You-Greishka Ortiz
The Game of Chess-Joshua Henry
Man Unknown-Chloe Campellone
THORNS-Nhi Dao
Winter-James E. Jamie
Lonely Hour 2AM-Angela Morales
Stained Glass-Olivia Camacho
3AM-Alexis Peart
Unconditional Love-Jamanee Walker
Untitled-Jalysse Ibes
"The Test"-Alexxus Hales
Honorable Mentions
Pheonix Reborn-Jorge Delgado
Sweet 16-Jamanee Walker
Cardinals & Gold Finches-Jill Norbut
Cup or Cone-Jalysse Ibes
Us-Alexis Peart
Untitled by Jennifer
December 3, 2018
I wake up to say hello
To the sun that must go.
The feeling of loneliness
as i speak
Yet the noises still follow me
I did this to myself
Even though i can't
see well without help
Scared and alone,
not knowing where to go
Helpless and unsure
I never know where to go
Smoke Rings by Jacob
December 3, 2018
Smoke blows off into the void,
As she sits, undeterred
By the shifting world around her, it changes, it sways
A moving city,
And still, staring at the morning sky,
She sits, Undeterred
People always come, people always go
So do I
Just a nomad,
Wandering throughout life
My name doesn’t matter
I wonder what that makes me, a fool?
Drifting on a whim...
But just for not setting my roots.
Work takes me where it does
I think I’m fine
Thoughts scratch at the door
Raccoons given bread once always come back
I look through the peephole, and I see a famine, the starving ones I long to forget are crowded at the door
The sounds are lost, and I turn an icy shoulder
I hear a voice beyond the door, “Please, Sarah
Breathe in, breathe out
He laughs
Even closing your eyes forever
Won’t change who we are”
So, with a resigned sigh
I turn back
And i open the latch one more time
If You by Greishka Ortiz
If you do it, you are always right.
Every melodic word that spills past your lips is a sin.
If you say it, I always become frail
and can’t find a way to control myself.
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From time to time I want to be done.
To end the madness and
bring back that small amount of
reasoning I have left.
If you say just one word,
I become the offender.
The one who always clinged on to the rope
that choked the desperate air you need to breathe.
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If you spill tears from your deceiving eyes,
I have to feel fifty more, looking at me
as though I wasn’t the one who was stabbed
with the sharp blade of a silver knife.
No, because if you do anything,
you’re always right
and I can never go against that.
The Game of Chess by Joshua Henry
A pawn was unexpected and shocked my brother and I,
Daddy announced your sister's come to help
As if there was an empty spot on board for Victoria to fill
And quickly with ease my sister made a move.
As time flowed like a stream
Our pet goldfish rushed on the alert for food
Her victorious piece moved on the board
And I smiled at dusk from noon and dawn.
My two siblings: beautiful and brave.
One solid as concrete wall , the other as
sly as a raccoon and me crazy enough
to be the middle ground when conflict arouse.
King and Queen treat me like a pawn after her birth
The three of us, Knight, Bishop,and a Pawn
I was born within 3 years after my brother
And 9 years before my sister
As if daddy didn't understand he was
competing to break a record for how
many mothers he could annoy in a good 5 years
the pieces were in the correct places
Until I grow to be a player and control my own game
Man Unknown by Chloe Campellone
Where he looks, we do not know
Upon his face, an apple grow
One small eye, peeking out
Dressed to the nines, without a doubt.
It’s cold outside, near the sea
He doesn’t have a place to be
Just standing alone, over the shore
Where he can listen to the waves roar.
This unknown man has an unknown fate
Up to someone’s mind to create
Why he stands quiet and alone
He truly is the man unknown.
THORNS by Nhi Dao
Misleading roses,
full blooms block light from all else.
Sheltering its thorns.
Winter by James E. Charlie
Some people love the cold,
Mostly because of the snow,
Probably because of the activities that come with it.
So they can make a smiling snowman,
Where every snowflake is stacked strategically.
Or maybe it is the view
The hills covered in layers of white,
The branches of trees coated in ice.
It is like the world is being wrapped in a cold blanket
that makes the world feel like it is still
And calm
And peaceful.
Lonely Hour 2AM by Angela Morales
No one is here and
yet here my soul still lies.
You remind me of the color brown,
a shade for anybody.
The burden you carry is as heavy
and blind as the night sky.
You remind me of the color brown,
the color of a withered flower.
Your love ate away at my soul.
You gave me nothing,
and I thought of it as something,
but you revolved around one thing.
And yet here my soul still lies,
like a shoe, walked all over but useful,
like the one Cinderella dropped in her fairytale.
The burden you carried soon became mine
and that turned my heart heavy
and my eyes blind.
The fire your love gave off caused burns upon my skin,
That was only scary when I thought too much of it.
I wish I didn’t hate you.
I’m beautiful… and if you touch me,
you must be careful of my sharp edges.
I will cut you
and I will NOT feel bad
when you bleed.
My broken pieces,
I’ve picked them up myself.
Scattered on the ground
where the sun cannot shine through,
each colored shard like the gloomy morning sky.
That is, until I laced them back together with lead.
It wasn’t painless doing so,
And you will forever see my creases,
my scars.
I am still beautiful.
My frame is strong and my color has returned.
Crimson red for the heat used to mend me,
and coral pink for the happiness I’ve granted myself.
So if you try to break me
you will bleed.
Stained Glass Olivia Camacho
The night
Where shadows dance
Black shapes show true figures
Spirits run around whispering
Darkness
3AM by Alexis Peart
Unconditional Love by Jamanee Walker
No matter what
has happened in the past,
the arguments and fights,
it all happened so fast.
No matter what
we’ve done wrong
we still stand strong.
I will always love you,
No matter what
we go through.
Until the end of time,
you’ll be my partner in crime.
Untitled by Jalysse Ibes
No one is here and it is silent.
The world is colored in dark blue,
Sky is the same.
The girl is lost in the dark of the woods.
The city is bright.
She traveled from the city, alone, she is not scared.
She sees a tiger looking into the river,
Why was there a tiger in the dark of the woods?
Surrounded by mountains.
Even with the loud cat here, it was still so silent
She wished it wasn't.
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"The Test" by Alexxus Hales
What do you call love that's really not love
But rather a false sign that comes from above
It takes a toll on you, and changes your perception
Making you feel manipulated from forms of deception
All she wanted was to feel appreciated
But now all of her love is depreciating.
What is she supposed to do?
Experiencing too many things, she must start anew.
What more in this world does she have to prove
When her pawn is exposed, and there’s no more moves.
She thought that he was the one, and he wasn't temporary
Until she woke up one day, and he was just visionary.
Was this reality, or was it all just imaginary
To abruptly lose so much just didn't seem ordinary.
Emotions ran through her mind controlling her brain
Clovers and sunshine now turned into black acid rain.
A lustrous golden heart was now rusted and stained,
From constant mistrust and relationships in vain.
When she looked in the mirror, all she felt was shame
How could he throw it all away just for the fame?
Her friends told her “don't worry girl” he's just lame
Some men can't handle strength, and all lions can’t be tamed.
Before when she started to fall, she felt frightened
Now after everything that’s happened she feels enlightened.
Every mistake and heartbreak gave her a voice
Which resonates over every future choice.
So what is this love that’s really not love?
Is it really a false sign that comes from above?
No
It’s reality, trial and error, not futile, but a drill
That exposes your weaknesses and turns them to skills.
Honorable Mentions
Phoenix Reborn by Jorge Delgado
Ashes grow
Ashes sleep
Ashes know the knowledge they seek
Ashes grow as time passes by
Eternity will seek to fly
Spread your wings with all your might
Knowledge will soon satisfy
Phoenix o Phoenix
Heed my plea
Knowledge is clear as I can see
Life itself it's a mystery
Phoenix o Phoenix
Make me see
The light of day
The darkest shadows
Show the world’s true nature
Grow and grow
You'll mature
As stem of plant
It will blossom
Just like knowledge that will fathom
Phoenix o Phoenix
Hear my cry
Phoenix o Phoenix
Don't let knowledge die
Phoenix please let the world know you exist
Sweet 16 by Jamanee Walker
Why is being sixteen such a big deal?
A female growing, discovering who she wants to be,
developing her personality.
Does she seem immature to you?
A young female growing,
And the process of her learning new things.
Do you trust her, is she responsible?
Finding her path is a start,
she has her whole life ahead of her.
Will it be hard for her when she gets out there?
She has to see how cruel the world is.
What she doesn't know now, she's growing, she's sixteen.
Cardinals & Gold Finches by Jill Norbut
Red birds in the sky
They sing their beautiful songs
Fill the air with joy
Gold birds in the sky
Returning from migration
Bring joy back to home
Cup or Cone by Jalysse Ibes
It’s in a little town,
The Ice Cream parlor I work at.
It feels like a few states away from my home.
I leave school earlier than I'm supposed to
To come here and serve the teens when their day is over
but mine is not.
But they don’t want me to serve them,
at least not the way im supposed to.
They want me to give them the drugs I don’t have.
Or get me to make a taco out of the waffle cones.
Or they rather slide over the counter to get two scoops of vanilla themselves.
We’re the same age.
And I have the steel green eyes as that girl over there
And the privileged boy who is demanding an extra
cherry on top.
But they treat me like nothing,
like this is a unsupervised recess
It’s not fair.
They arrive in super fast cars they didn’t buy,
and they just play after.
And I’m just here to serve them.
Us by Alexis Peart
I love you.
You push me away,
You come my way.
I hold you,
Your heart devours me,
I see your broken pieces.
You love me.
I push you away,
I come your way.
You hold me,
My heart engulfs you
You see my broken pieces.
We loved each other.
Time passed,
We changed.
Our hearts broke apart,
It’s better this way.