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
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs 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
My Winter's WishesIn 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
The StoneThe 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
Green AnniversariesThis 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
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin LaneIn 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
The Monroe MoonIn 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
Adrift In the Midst of Gladness and SadnessWalking 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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Categories:
candlelight, love, romantic love,
Form:
Lyric
Shades of My GloomIn 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
If I Were the One For NicolaIf 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
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
BooksThey 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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Categories:
candlelight, books,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight In the LibraryAround 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 LinesBetween 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
Pleasures of ReadingIt 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
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Robert LindleyThrough 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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Categories:
candlelight, loneliness, love,
Form:
Rhyme