Flickering Dreams Beneath Stars
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Written: February 1st, 2025 For contest by Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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Tethered to a wick, flickering in...
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Categories:
candelabras, dream, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Golden darkness
...The darkness becomes golden
with lusters now embolden.
The beauty from the lit flame
showed bright on the pretty frame.
The drips from the melted pool,
shines like a silver jewel.
The...
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Categories:
candelabras, beauty, freedom, hope, joy,
Form: Couplet
Addiction a life without pie
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A life without pie
Come On we can't stay young
Tomorrow knows the past
We have no choice
Since birth
You've been wild with a demon voice
In a forest with no paths
We follow the sun and t...
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Categories:
candelabras, addiction, candy, evil, smart,
Form: Ballad
Candelabra Ghost
...candelabra ghost did a cha cha cha
He had the whole mansion to himself
Fiddly dee, fiddly whimsical mccaw
he grabbed two candelabras down from the shelf
It was heavy, sure, but looked great whe...
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Categories:
candelabras, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Des Nuits D Amour
...Des Nuits d'Amour
A fine tablecloth, Lenox china,
sterling dinner ware.
Tall, elegant candles in shiny
golden candelabras.
Un chantes, d' amour fill the
starry night that I can smell in y...
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Categories:
candelabras, love,
Form: Rhyme
Signs
...Splitting hairs with dull knifes
dressed up in bad habits
life relegated to picture screens
unheard screams
darkened diners
beckoning candelabras and moonlit drives
no wax drips s...
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Categories:
candelabras, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Des Nuits D'Amour
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A fine tablecloth, Lenox china,
sterling dinner ware.
Tall, elegant candles in shiny
golden candelabras.
Un chantes, d' amour fill the
starry night that I can smell in your
heavenly h...
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Categories:
candelabras, love, relationship, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
One Night In a Haunted Manor
...For so many years my one desire was to stay all night in a haunted manor
With candelabras to lighten my way, heated by the warmth of a welcome fire
Haunted perchance by a lady in white over the yea...
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Categories:
candelabras, cry, girl, peace, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Inspired By a Horse Is Stresses In Dresses
...Stresses in dresses are not wanting streams today they are wanting to watch a film where animals sing. It is great to know that a aqueous solution of a pickled onion jar is clever when unsealed and u...
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Categories:
candelabras, august, autumn, baseball, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
Ballroom Delights
...At the Parisian Ball
wrapped in finest gowns
of virgin-snow, sugar-rose
and washed-out pistachio pastels
The hour-glass shapes
with tied narrow waists
waltzed with gallant...
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Categories:
candelabras, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Second Fireless Room
...Synthemesc candelabras ache hyacinth desire till woven floors
macabre phoenix grown on veiled crucible vines, dragonflies now
inhabit counter-clocks I've forgotten seer dust ponders hewn salama...
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Categories:
candelabras, longing, mirror, surreal, time,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Faded Sheet Music
...Tear drops fall
between silent lines
carrying the tune
of this weeping melody
written on my heart’s
faded sheet music
Scales cry in sharpened flats
twisting treble clef sorrows
Candelabras ...
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Categories:
candelabras, music, sad,
Form: Free verse
In 1745
...In 1745, the apothecary
Time stands still, peering at the past
The chemists lived making potions
Between dust and rats
Gadgets like compasses hung
Amidst glass vials and bronze knobs
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Categories:
candelabras, history, humanity, time,
Form: Free verse
I Can No Longer Be a Duchess
...Affluent and formal
pink lilies deck the tables;
we await the
sweet, affected
laughter of our friends.
Bedecked in bouffant hair-do's
perfumes, ermines, jewels
brocades and buckled shoes,
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Categories:
candelabras, fantasy, farewell, identity,
Form: Free verse
Haunted
...Tiptoeing inside an entrance that held
unknown mysteries of a slain clan,
draped photographs flickered with
low-lit candelabras of Halloween eve.
I ran up the steps as my heels
cracked on throu...
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Categories:
candelabras, horror, house,
Form: Free verse
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