# The Flame is not the Fire

*For Gerard Manley Hopkins*

By [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible) · 2024-05-16

poetry, hopkins, poem, host, ghost

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Today I see the god 

In everything

And everything to me 

Proclaims and sings

And dances

Like the dragonflies

In spring

  

Gentle reminder 

That the flame 

Is not the fire

  

Love every host

And every ghost 

That lives within

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*Originally published on [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/the-flame-is-not-the-fire)*