Best Torchlight Poems

Burgundy and scented candles
dinner at eight
pacing with clammy hands
she is running late.

She usually does
arriving bathed in candlelight
always the muse
capturing the essence of night.

I let her sip from my glass
the wine was for me
the room becomes a spinning world
of forests, castles, clifftops and restless sea.

Promises are...

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I never dreamed, but I 
dared
To hold the torch and 
light it
I never said that I cared
But I let the night be lit

I thought that it was easy
To spread the beams of 
torchlight
So that young people 
could see
The antidote for twilight

My clutching fingers held 
strong
Each...

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It’s eight degrees in January,
a frozen New England night.
Standing by a base lodge,
staring up at shadowy slopes,
gray against the icy black.
Others cluster around me,
bundled and waiting.

High above: a point of light,
red and brilliant up there.
Then another, a whole string
snakes down the slope,
turns the gray to...

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