Fireflying
...Through dusk’s shadows they soar,
flickering evening lights,
flies flashing cold fire,
bugs unleashing lightning,
micro-luminescent,
miniscule miracles.
Though fainter than candles,
clustere...
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Categories:
candlelights, dark, hope, life, light,
Form: Free verse
The Succubus
...
(A lone old male voice whispers to his loyal dog)
She came at midnight
Last night
You know
As the fireflies outside in our winter garden
Glowed
In a red dress of moving red lips that ...
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Categories:
candlelights, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Your Symphony of Joy
...Sing Your Song of Joy
9/19/2023
Of all the great joy that you experience in living,
Have no fear of what any human thinks of you!
Of any type of ...
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Categories:
candlelights, boat, fantasy, how i
Form: Quatrain
Candlelights
...Candlelights
By Mark D. Stucky
A candle drives darkness back
with beauty of glowing light,
giving of itself as flame’s fuel
until completing its calling.
Then another ...
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Categories:
candlelights, community, life, light, moving
Form: Free verse
Not To Overthink
...The light evening meal
Served under moon and stars,
Flickering candlelights whilst
Writing our memoirs.
Classical music;
Beauty to my ears,
Gazing up to Venus, Mars,
Thinking biospheres.
...
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Categories:
candlelights, food, friendship love, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Ataraxis
...Ataraxis
Of that, that lazed in the league composed,
faraway sights gifted reserve from activewear a euphuistic fence,
the settling dust of undisturbed light flickers an a...
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Categories:
candlelights, appreciation, imagery, innocence,
Form: Tristich
Ravens and Castles
......inspired by and in dedication to ~ Victor Buhagiar, Robert Lindley (my mentors) and the rest of the PoetrySoup Family...thank you for your kindness and support...
A Tribute To Edgar...
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Categories:
candlelights, dark, deep, horror,
Form: Rhyme
A Giveaway
...The gaudy beauty of the villas with
new money blazons on the pediments,
the Moon over the garden, the sea breeze,
orchids in bloom - they're all the elements
of the confusing game to lure me to...
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Categories:
candlelights, games, love,
Form: Rhyme
Unplug
...Relations we were
On all seasons, either spring or autumn
Assemble unanimously for all reasons
Like numerous birds in a single tree
We extend our feathers with glee
Our elders were pillars
Shad...
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Categories:
candlelights, culture,
Form: Light Verse
Candlelights
...Torchlights
on parade
many outward lights
with darkness concealed
until a bursting..
The allowing parade
and the anti-parade:
expressing our Freedom..
We celebrate Freedom
but also discern...
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Categories:
candlelights, anxiety, discrimination, integrity, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Desire of the Night
...Late chilly night on the street
you’re embracing me
Cloudy rainy night with pretty lips
you’re kissing me
Oh misty red scarlet night
you’re my pastime
For the night
Through the city gates we...
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Categories:
candlelights, april, dark, good night,
Form: Lyric
Diamonds
...And now the trickles ripple rifting
through the hues of the sky—confetti!
The words of my mouth are paintings;
a projected splash all over—frantics!
Whether they drag down God's face
blaze out s...
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Categories:
candlelights, pain, sad, sad love,
Form: Lyric
Who Am I
...Before you know my name
You might want to know a little about me
I came from the land ends
From a bittersweet dream
From the end of seasons
From beyond the future
I brought honey bees
A...
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Categories:
candlelights, nostalgia, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Seducing Melody
...Aromatic lingering scents
Shadowed dancing from candlelights
Touches of scattered roses
Stings tickling the senses
On the dim cool lights
He held her slowly
On her narrow waist
He circled...
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Categories:
candlelights, care, emotions, image, life,
Form: Imagism
Her Beauty, In My Dreams
...Washing over me; her warm breast, weighing joyfully amid such soft palms
Arms about dawns waist; dreams, smiling as gazing into her eyes to find..
Beauty that we share; butterflies, dancing within ou...
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Categories:
candlelights, beautiful, girl, love,
Form: Free verse
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