Elsewhere, someone offered a challenge to write a poem about fireworks, and like a Roman candle, this leapt from my head... Burst! with joy and thunder...! Crack! across the starry sky! Glory for a moment, dainty showers falling, winking out spark by lambent spark... The dark, the sullen, the suffering, the cold cannot remain unmoved, unchanged in this sudden cascade, this blossoming of lights upon lights, enormous unexpected flowers-- stamped on the vision, impacted in the soul with the... Sign in to see full entry.