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Candlewick Poems - Poems about Candlewick

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

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Categories: candlewick, ocean, sunset,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: candlewick, poetry,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: candlewick, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: candlewick, thanksgiving,
Form: Rispetto
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......

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Categories: candlewick, poetry,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: candlewick, emotions, life, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: candlewick, age, appreciation, beauty, best
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: candlewick, abuse, anger, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: candlewick, fun, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
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......

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Categories: candlewick, earth, environment,
Form: Terza Rima
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 ......

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Categories: candlewick, art,
Form: ABC
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 ......

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Categories: candlewick, depression, goodbye, grave, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: candlewick, nostalgia, song-life, life,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: candlewick, art, inspirational, on writing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: candlewick, devotion, me, light, light,
Form: Free verse

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