Best Torch Song Poems

Dogwood leaves in shades of rust and Merlot
quiver in the first glow of  morning light
A squirrel dances with it’s own shadow
under a veil of...

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waking to timidity of the
psyche
the day feels doomed not 
right

push through it all till night
fall
arriving home he seems so
tall

sensing weakness starts a 
fight
pushing all buttons...

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WORDS - ALOUETTE

Nightmares in my skin;
Scourging deep within.
Blood and bones sizzling abreast...
Aged tired nerves plead
from words carving bleed
to screams of cruel arrest.

Head like tomb stillness
chaining...

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Here’s the thing ... 
needful truth of an urgent matter
Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem:
Dark Age Crusaders of Hate
say the right color is...

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If I had one last hour with you
would I be able and willing to speak?

What could we say or sing again?
Or perhaps something hidden from...

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[More paraphrase than translation of a Post WWII Korean jazz ballad by the Kim Sisters, sung mournfully as if for an Asian gangster film noir.]

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Exhaling...

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Gorilla My Dreams sang me a moody torch song with these lyrics:

Why does your soul feel like a hole
Wherein a mole used to hide
Why does...

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Half a red beard lays on the floor                 ...

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Shadow Muse
              by Odin Roark

What’s a scrappy old ghost to do
Whose graveyard...

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Apocalypse Beans

Sometimes it seems 
your chest is about to cave in.
You try to catch a breath but 
your heart flutters like a dry leaf;
Just more...

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There is a weakness I must fight
Bane of my emotional plight
Holding me in its grasp too tight
My kryptonite       My...

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Canary girl, we both know what you are. 
A cynosure. I pity you. 

We monde envy your voice 
but know the lyrics to your torch...

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The holiday season's over
    It lasts one day too long
  Fond memories, even insights
    scarred by her torch...

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The morning slipped away
 hours that quickly fade
stay with me a little while
 how I miss that smile.

Another Monday come and gone
 passing as the...

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