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Best Candlelight Poems

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


Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: candlelight, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: candlelight, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: candlelight, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Green Anniversaries
This is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of...

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Categories: candlelight, cancer, hope, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: candlelight, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: candlelight, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and Sadness
Walking upon silent parched paths,
under speechless scarlet skies.
Your name sits upon the tip of my tongue,
listening to the susurration of my heart.
Each vibration echoes tones...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candlelight, love, romantic love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Shades of My Gloom
In vertigo of night, in their riddled trance 
Boldness of petals melt on washed-out shades,
As faces etch a quiet gloom in varied hues
Capturing splashed oil,...

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Categories: candlelight, art, color, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member If I Were the One For Nicola
If only I could make my way to Paris
To search the boulevards and rainy rues
I'd look to find my lonely heart an heiress
An Irish lass...

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Categories: candlelight, funny love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed—

fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s...

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Categories: candlelight, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Books
They stand, silently,
shoulder to shoulder, upright,
save one at the end, leather bound
who slouches, James Dean fashion.
Six with blue covers, gold blocked,
uniform, like Trumpton Firemen.
All wear...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candlelight, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midnight In the Library
Around midnight, in the library I found myself drawn,
to these shelves haunted still by Poe, Stevenson and King,
as a rare, late October storm brews beyond...

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Categories: candlelight, books, night, october, repetition,
Form: Pantoum
Betweenthe Lines
Between the lines I walk a million miles

You hold me in your arms a hundred thousand times

Between the lines I  wonder about your dark...

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Categories: candlelight, i love you,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Pleasures of Reading
It pleasures me
That she reads me
Inside her serenity
Parked on our bench of antiquities

I, whom gazes over there at her,
Later in the dusk of candlelight
Shall remove...

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Categories: candlelight, art, beauty, desire, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Robert Lindley
Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that which Life commands
placing her true love, in its...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candlelight, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things