Best Flickering Flame Poems

Dear, ice cold hands:
You came from a place of hurt and evil. You were used to people walking in and out of your life. You perfected how to push people out of your life, just like you had seen everyone else do. With one look,...

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I wish I knew what I could say.
To you so I could have my way.
The prayer I prayed is slowly fading.
While you aren't sure and I am waiting.

Two hearts don't always see the same.
One goes all in, one plays the game.
The cards get dealt, somebody...

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Beating drums always murmur inside my heart it seems,
and I write of my aboriginal ancestors found in dreams;
oh, the reality of dream and reality in life are thin seams.
And though my life has been a ravaged garden of weeping,
of grief and loss that never seems...

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Through the midst of the turmoil, through the suffering and the pain, 
through the emptiness and heartache, I saw your flickering flame. 

 I struggled for a lifetime with not a hope in sight.
 I fought for my own survival with all my strength and...

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life is no more than 
a flame
fueled by ,love ,passion 
and happiness

we try to protect the bearer
of the flame 
of all evil

we ask angels to assist
yet our efforts are to no avail
for evil and death
has no end

a great sadness now shadows us
as we lay these...

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A lit candle stands alone,
The soft flame is swaying with a simple sigh.
Scarcely holding on, the light weakens.
In and out, not knowing that she's fading.
She's waning as Time doesn't know what's wrong.
Try as she might, the flame clearly dwindles.
The sigh has caused such trouble,
The flame...

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You dance around my flickering flame..
You joust with a slight breeze, who will win this game?
Your hypnotic yellow hue...
Draws my eyes entranced upon you...
Blue dances rings around you my hypnotic friend..
Dancing on my senses an aroma fills the air of a cinnamon spice blend.
I inhale...

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Sitting beside the fire’s flickering flames
Along the shores of Lake Wylie’s waters tame
The stillness of the evening’s soft sounds
Creates a happiness of soul again

The glow of the fire warms to my desire
To feel at peace with a life of work strains
That make me grow old;...

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Flickering flame

A discordant note
of egos that bloat,
so discerned by mind,
holds on us no bind.

Heart’s slight resentment 
is discontentment,
noticed as a slip,
as we nearly trip.

This flicker in space
is our soul’s disgrace,
which though now restored,
at that moment gored.

If what is just is,
then bubbling bliss fizz
should be all...

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facing unending criticism
vaporised self is immune
yet there’s a small chasm
since souls are out of tune

20-January-2023...

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"What is life but a succession of preludes to unwritten words . . . "

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Ah, a flickering flame with shadows on the wall,
With glimmering lights rolling all around!
I will remember them all!
A flame so high,
But a flame so low,
A burn out in time!
A linger much too slow,
A flickering flame,
A moment that I claim!

Ah, a flickering flame where light covers...

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Flickering flame, steadied by love
Transmuting consciousness 
Baptised in the stream from above
Unbroken awareness

Bliss transfixed attention
Is our meditation 
Heart’s orientation 

Ego urge tame
Flickering flame

02-February-2022
Quietus ...

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How long can stoic spirit celebrate
whilst caged in form and shrouded in darkness,
denied blissful rapture that won’t abate,
hoping against hope to meld with oneness,
knowing not how, due to stuporousness,
merely offered glimpses from time to time,
for most part deaf to cadence of love’s chime,
hanging like a...

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