Best Torch Poems

I used to be creative,
I was crafty with the pen
People liked to read my odes
And would praise me now and then

Yes, i would dive into the river
Where the creative juices flow
My pen would seize the moment
And take on a life all its own

I would scribble...

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A single flame will always burn 
 As a memory for us to remember and learn 
 It was a cold winter’s day 
 The twentieth of January 
A young man standing in the bitter wind 
 And a new chapter in our history was...

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Oh keeper of the torch!
Why does the flame dwindle?
My son, I was once a great warrior.
I wear the scars of many battles.
With the sword of justice in one hand
and the shield of truth in the other,
I proudly defended the flame. 
But time has wreaked havoc...

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Arms and legs peddling struggling
I tread
In the middle of the lake

There is 300 feet of blue water
Between the soles of my feet
And the 10,000 year old dance floor beneath.

Torch Lake never gives up her dead.

The lake’s bottom is pocked
With springs bursting as jets from Middle...

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In the history of first ladies
 I never envisioned the strength and power of women that carried a torch of greatness for which they stood.  
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jackie Kennedy…just to name a few… were the embodiment of beauty, knowledge, class, and pure...

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Carry the torch and carry it high
Their legacy will never die
Continue on, their hopes fulfill
The one the enemy tried to kill

Carry the torch that they’ve passed on
Now their battle has been won
Live in freedom in the USA
Live in it’s fullest everyday

These soldiers did not die...

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The Burning Torch

My darling I am coming home, for you just wait and see
I didn’t drown that fateful day, into the deepest sea.
I hear you call me every night, you sit upon the porch
And wait for me now to return, I see your burning torch.

It...

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You have plucked her from purity
ascended upon virtuous flesh
spawned forth torches of multitude
that pronounce flames of love

and yet those very flames
burn with seething rage
bearing witness to false pretense
of Love's gentle embrace

what once was pure 
has been soiled
from generations past
for the flames of abuse
have become adults...

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I hand you my torch, while I play the guitar

Tolkien am I, in my euphoric voice

Artistry, artistic, dramatic and poetic are my strings

My musical notes, will touch the sky and alive shall be the clouds

I will give many stars away, starting with brother, sister and...

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Our world is darkened 
by hate.
Each one of us can be 
a light in the midst of 
darkness.
By spreading love instead 
of hate.
Or peace instead of chaos.
Or joy in the midst of much
sorrow.
Or doing things that unify
and not divide.
Or saying kind words
instead of hateful insults.
By...

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Stepping out from the burrow
Scratching the hidden persuasion
The soul which has long groaned in solitude
Will it be re-confined to the misery?

One who awakens by the brittleness of elegy
Eroded by the existence of sinless soul
For a moment it became oblivious to time
For a moment it elapsed...

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When The Torch Came In June--In Memory of my husband: 
            Robert A. (Bobby) Burch--Died 6/22/1996

O' June...June...I can't believe how fast time
Has gone. It seems like only yesterday
I held him close...kissed...his lips on mine.
It's...

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on this journey I’ll keep up
going up the hill and down the valley
stumbling down and rising up
cruel bruises I sustain

because I must keep going
day or night it makes no difference
whether walls of fire or scare crows surround me
my will is to keep my torch burning

With...

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FOR THE NEW TORCH BEARERS (REVISITED)
	        (APROPOS MLK: PART 2)

They voyaged over many tempestuous oceans and seas; 
They were pursued in woods by vicious dogs—dogs 
Salivating stale slave smells of strange fruits
In hanging trees.
They were hunted, trapped and...

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a forgotten torch 
is hanging on a cave wall,
its light still shining...

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