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Hold A Candle To Poems - Poems about Hold A Candle To

Premium Member A Rose -
...A rose as it grows has no cute little nose Has no voice that can drive a man wild Has no eyes to ensnare any man who looks there Has no cheeks that might flush if he smiled No saunter, no wigg......

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Categories: hold a candle to, love, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member First Christmas Without You
...I’m sitting here wondering how I made it through the day. My heart aches, my eyes are swollen. My wish to have you back is not a reality. The stark truth is you are never coming back. Las......

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Categories: hold a candle to, christmas, daughter, death, sad,
Form: Free verse



The VOW
...The VOW I can't recall the day or time when I fell for you, That precious, defining moment when I grew fond of you. That's how much I have grown obsessed with you. But I g......

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Categories: hold a candle to, cute love, i love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Evergreen
...My leaves never droop and my flowers stand high I bloom through the year as the seasons pass by I witness the daffodils stand proud and tall I see warmer weather put paid to them all The allium......

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Categories: hold a candle to, flower,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Beyond the Realm of Wishes
...Beyond the Realm of Wishes In sun-scorched dunes beside a weathered sentinel a glint ensnared his weary gaze. A tarnished lamp / grazed / its secrets unknown / a genie unbound.... a muted......

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Categories: hold a candle to, conflict, desire, inspiration, philosophy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Summer of Crazy
...I still have that letter somewhere. You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it. So I kept that promise, I kept it for thirty years. I’m kinda thinking it’s long enough. Why was I attr......

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Categories: hold a candle to, adventure, break up, emotions,
Form: Prose
Premium Member How Does One Compete
...How does one compete with a Frost or a Keats, a Dickinson or Whitman for words, how can we say in our language today what we feel within has been stirred. Like those in our past who intrinsical......

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Categories: hold a candle to, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh Greta, Dear Greta
...O Greta, dear Greta of Huskey Mountain Road, If I loved you more, my heart would explode. It has been a blessing to know you this year, To watch you grow bigger and ever more dear. I can’t hold......

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Categories: hold a candle to, birthday, granddaughter,
Form: Sonnet
Doggerel Artist
...It was some hours of purgatory, Self imposed, but all the same, He thought of it as purgatory as He listened to them declaim Their long strings of words with No apparent rhyme or reason, As if......

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Categories: hold a candle to, culture, spoken word, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man of the Year
...Santa Claus, a man born for the Anniversary of Jesus our savior Babe Another year has passed. As we celebrate the Anniversary of Christ Rays of light benignl......

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Categories: hold a candle to, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Bring Your Own Sunshine
...Wherever you go, don't forget Bring your own sunshine along To brighten up the path you travel Singing a happiness song It's certainly possible, look at me Can't wipe this smile from m......

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Categories: hold a candle to, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Big If
...If poems come from out of the air, At the moment, I should go there' I could have a poetry fest, Only choosing the very best. Shelley would not hold a candle to me, As I float around aimlessly. ......

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Categories: hold a candle to, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Be Mine
...A touch of smooth ivory, brought laughter to your eyes. That familiar gazing giggle that creates such a mess, no truth fortelling nor desiring ever to confess.. bristled in numb hands wrought in u......

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Categories: hold a candle to, inspirational love, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
I Am a Boy Living In a Country
...I’m a boy living in a country where We get emotional over every government move And every government move is chartered over our emotions Emotions are chastised whether it or let be One trying to ......

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Categories: hold a candle to, celebration, corruption, dedication, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Would You Sacrifice For Love
...I wonder is there anything, I would not sacrifice for love First think of the many things, that when push comes to shove Things I could not live without, too important to my life Things I could no......

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Categories: hold a candle to, love,
Form: Ballad

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