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Best Candle Poems

Below are the all-time best Candle poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of candle poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...

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Categories: candle, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: candle, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: candle, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet In Recluse
I relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candle, emotions, solitude,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: candle, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Birth
BIRTH

Once upon a moonlit night
There came a ray of magic light

That shone upon an orphan home
Where two small pumpkins left alone

To thirst and starve to...

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Categories: candle, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Suicide Masterpiece
Suicide Masterpiece

Sweatdrop
On top
Trigger pop
Written note
All I got
Hang knot
Body rot
Suicide cop

I hope not
Cry out loud
I think not
Body's hot
I am too proud
I am loved a lot
Rooftop.
Suicide bride

Heavy...

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Categories: candle, abuse, art, body, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candle, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - At the Edge - 3
A reflection of the coloured pencil drawn sky
skates on the glass smooth surface below it.
While a rebellious group of shades take their positions 
on a...

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Categories: candle, introspection, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: candle, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly
Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...

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Categories: candle, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: candle, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daydreamer
"The Dream Manipulator"

A wish upon the stars I see
Magical moments with sweet surrenders
Embrace the twinkle notes
My lid slip into an everlasting feel~  In trance,...

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Categories: candle, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mindful
Mindful  

Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in the...

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Categories: candle, blessing, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Finding Hope
These dark streets seem empty
All shadows, no light
But look, there’s a window
A candle burns bright

This quest makes me weary
As decades fly past
My first love is...

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Categories: candle, hope,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things