A Tuesday poem, 'Keeping a fire'

 

The fire's gone out

Oh, my dear, the fire has gone out
 Can we start it again or not
It doesn't seem it had a chance
 Logs are plenty, an ember not

It will take a match, kindling, more
 Another bad start?  Shall we chance?
Not start at all, salvage the wood?
 I say flip a coin, winner choose
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I am linked with Marian at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Tuesday Platfom. http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-tuesday-platform_15.html

Marian's said we can use any poem previously written or we can write a new one.  I opted for a new writing.  Her theme is "Many of us are struggling with darkness; let us endeavor to keep a light ablaze in the Garden."

My writer doesn't seem to be keeping very well with the theme.  "Flipping a coin" is an antiphrase* to her suggestion, "let us endeavor."

*Note: http://www.linguee.com/french-english/translation/antiphrase.html