Candles flickering in the darkening gloom,
Pin-pricks of light that brighten the room;
Taking a look around all that you see
Waiting for the night to end, so you can breathe;
Flashes of flame shine on the walls surround
Giving a sense of protection all around,
And everything you require is found
Within these arms that hold you sound;
Flames burn and flare in the cloudy night
With light of fire shining, setting life right,
What do you see in the misted shade
As eyes focus with firelights blaze
Watching the skies for the signs of life
Bringing hope in the fading light,
And everything you require is found
Within these arms that hold you sound;
Can you see the light shine from above
Do you feel the warmth of heavens love
As the light fans into flame the truth you believe
When you truly see light and fire as you receive;
Take a walk with light of life in hand,
Join in and sing fire into this happy band,
And everything you require is found
Within these arms that hold you in love and light.
©Steve Gregory 2025
Categories:
firelights, christian, devotion, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
Sitting by the firelights glow
Immersed in personal thought
Wandering down memory lane
Dwelling on life-lessons taught
Trying to accept things
That nobody can change
There will always be questions without answers
(That's strange)
If you ask a question
You are entitled to a reply
Is the stifled silence
Because the answer is a lie
When you are young and innocent
Your mind is a clean page
How sad to become cynical
About life as we age
This causes me stress
I become anxious and distressed
The loss of innocence
Upsets me I confess
I know this way of thinking
Is idealistic and unreal
This doesn't alter
The way I feel
The world's gone crazy
Perhaps it's not the case
In the beginning
The world was a beautiful place
What more could anyone want
When God supplied our need
Until Satan showed his ugly face
And introduced us all to greed
The firelights fading now
Night is drawing in
This life is not all
Tragedy, sorrow and sin
If we try to accept
The good with the bad
Life would be easier
And we wouldn't feel so sad
First posted 2020
Categories:
firelights, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A beautiful lier
Tell me lies as butterflies die,
That bloom into firelights,
Your words are powerful inornate darkness
Electric hums of an infinite instrument
Of destruction and demise,
Your lies are bitter, acidic & cold,
Your beauty is a mask of ash, & mascara
Sold on markets of lust
Blood runs old in the aftermath
The drifting of your delicate dust
The passage of passion in beautiful lies
Lives burnt out fast in the aftermath
Of such a beautiful lier
You're the reason I feel your treason
I sit here and contemplate
My mind denotes and radiates.
This razor-keen blade, I can feel its slice
The world turns red and spins out of sight…
Categories:
firelights, allegory, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Trails of time
I note the trails sublime
I see them dance around
my fingers like starlight
arcing in the night
I intertwine the firelights
dancing around my thumb
around the rings of gods
Sphere spinning in deep depths of space
I drop stones in the oceans of the universe
and watching the ebbs,
feeling the flows
knowing the waves
cresting in time
play in the fabric
of infinite space
intertwine
Trails of time
I note the trails sublime
I see them dance around
my fingers like starlight
arcing in the night
I intertwine the firelights
feeling the delicate
dance of serenity
in the throes of divinity
I intertwine
Categories:
firelights, allegory, angst, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Sitting by the firelights glow
Immersed in personal thought
Wandering down memory lane
Dwelling on life-lessons taught
Trying to accept things
That nobody can change
There will always be questions without answers
(That's strange)
If you ask a question
You are entitled to a reply
Is the stifled silence
Because the answer is a lie
When you are young and innocent
Your mind is a clean page
How sad to become cynical
About life as we age
This causes me stress
I become anxious and depressed
The loss of innocence
Upsets me I confess
I know this way of thinking
Is idealistic and unreal
This doesn't alter
The way I feel
The world's gone crazy
Perhaps it's not the case
In the beginning
The world was a beautiful place
What more could anyone want
When God supplied our need
Until Satan showed his ugly face
And introduced us all to greed
The firelights fading now
Night is drawing in
This life is not all
Tragedy, sorrow and sin
If we try to accept
The good with the bad
Life would be easier
And we wouldn't feel so sad
Categories:
firelights, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Long legged pixie hop. Circles in the grass. Encircled by the firelights. Duties in the pass. Awaken one oh global one. Assisting virally everyone. Mission paths on grasses. Enshrouded in such myth. Vital is the work of the coexisting cobra clan whose addresses to clams bring atunement. Timely in any environmental era. Couplets in goblets and patriotic frogs. Question not the passing passionate wisdom of a fried onion bap. With sauce. Mate always with harmonious courage and exact comedy. Movements of a fruit bake in a frilly skirt. Rapid is the judgement of a peeled potato. Succumb not to icing. Ski scrambled schools schooling scholars solarium solar systems structures dish dots dash haha xx compass. Xxz. Cup of tea then is it? Want some tea? Good. *** beautification *** ha ha ha xx classification ***
Categories:
firelights, art,
Form: I do not know?
Fire – Of Ancient Origins
Anthropological dawning’s
Cave walls with lit magic drawings
Of firestorms
Sacred mystical deity
Cavemen prayed with fidelity
For firelights
Their children delighted and grew
History ignited the fuse
On fireworks
Created by: Earl Schumacker on 11/19/14 for - Fire, Earth, Wind, - Poetry Contest
(Theme is – Fire)
Categories:
firelights, adventure, age, culture, fire,
Form: Rhyme