Candlewick Poems

Taste a Sunset

...Lick
The ocean
Candlewick
Dusk in mauve
Inhale salty coasts
Lined deep in indigo blue...

Across the Memory Pond

...A Candlewick bedspread,
it must be Blackpool or Paris.

A towering sadness,
for she is lost between the waves
of there and now.

Moonlight above the 'Golden Coral',
Wednesday is half-price fo...

The View From Here

...Where have the matchstick men and women gone,
they used to walk home from the smoky factories
just to light up?
Where has the Pork Pie hat flown to?
Even the birds chirrup less sweetly,
Is it be...

Broken Wishbone

...My eyes fell closed as I watched a dark night sky
A chance wasted of hopes pinned on stars falling
Candlewick atop my cake, flame did defy
I feel the fates to my dreams are stonewalling

I pluck...

The Gray Crumbling

...I used to roll inside a blanket
hide from the blood-soaked wide-eyed;
mind shuttered, ears deep into
the soul of a candlewick womb.
At such times, dad would enter my bedroom,
tickle my ribs unti...

Scabby Knees and Chimney Smoke

...Scabby knees and chimney stack smoke

Scabby knees and chimney stack smoke,
Short corduroy trousers, old flat cap bloke.
Wash lines of linen hang over cobbled street,
Holes in our shoes, dirty c...

Opening Candlewick

...Honorable Mention 
Opening Candlewick 
Patricia Cresswell 

she speaks with gentleness to the walls 
leaves her memories and hopes in words 
between the layers of fresh spring paint 
she finds...

Steeling Into the Attic

...steeling into the attic

how much is contained
in these boxes and bags of stuff?
all of life, now, then and before.
some able to warm the heart strongly 
as when newly minted.
cruelty, giving ...

Bells That Don'T Ring, Throw Down the Pail

...When mining thoughts, how deafening the ring
We search the walls of silence for a vein
A golden verse to strum on soft heart strings
To touch someone and stake a poet's claim

We chip away, in r...

Darwin

...From ancient blackened earth our lives emerged
Affirming eon's cycling through soil's time
But in the end all creatures had diverged.

Though ash and cinder oft contributes grime
To rising zephy...

Travails of Vivisection

...The future dubs.
A pride is shattered.

The philanderer moon
sprawls over the
candlewick.

A ghost walks 
through the wall.

A thin blade of
grass, holds the sun
for ransom.

Fireflies ...

Graveyard Gossip

...Dance if you will. Come slither upon my feet,
Delightfully disguised as tragedy
Completely incomplete.

You still race to my conscious like
Bubbles in fresh poured champagne.
In rest, you’re a ...

Street Lights

...Imagine a life set so selfless
that even sinners couldn't help it
but carry the weak and offer
strength to helpless.
but this life we lead on
is a cliche' blue song
because we don't even know
when it...

Sun-Block

...SUN-BLOCK


Your sunset-sanctioned skin ignite melody to boredom world
Your gently pearling smile charm the attention of morning sun.
Your charmed souls burn in nuclear passion
To absorb the bombardm...

Sun-Block - Joseph Osita

...SUN-BLOCK  ( Collaboration with Joseph Osita )


by~JOSEPH OSITA &  I~LINDA  (p.d.)

Your sunset-sanctioned skin ignite melody to boredom world
Your gently pearling smile charm the attention of morni...

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